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- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each unit will focus on understanding, solving, and preventing...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
efficiency of capital markets, the opaqueness of the groups’ operations, and the abuse of inside information. It is hard not to feel that history is repeating itself. For not only is this investigation sure to fatten the profit pools of...
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- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
has paid lower prices for a huge range of high-quality foreign-made goods. The resulting increase in the purchasing power of consumers’ income—combined with our highly efficient retail distribution system—has created a shopper’s paradise...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (DBA ’03) (Harvard Business Press) The authors recommend that to combat the IT-as-cost mindset, CIOs use IT to create three kinds of value — value for the money (the IT department operating View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the development of a more View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
and convey the importance of social distancing. Cofounder and CEO Don Spear (MBA 1986) notes that e-learning can provide a critical and efficient path to rapidly educate employees and provide up-to-date information. Missy Narula (MBA...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Alumni Books
New Ventures by Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999) and Bill Murphy Jr. (Farallon Publishing) The authors explain the key common strategies and tactics used by some of today’s most extraordinary entrepreneurs and offer a seven-step framework for the View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
arena, for example, Forest Reinhardt has found that when companies see environmental regulation as an opportunity to look critically at their production processes — not just to figure out the minimum they can do to comply — they can make their operations more View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
harassed and humiliated by IRS employees. Congress responded by passing the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act, which called for both regaining taxpayers' confidence and collecting taxes more efficiently by overhauling the agency's...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
start seeing the strategic benefits of remote work? Prashanth Chandrasekar: There’s actually been, in some ways, a rise in productivity because people are able to focus and be very efficient with their time. We have not seen any kind of...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
was through such a discussion that Allen Grossman, the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice, first heard about the Mexican health-care nonprofit Salud Digna, which he calls "one of the most stunning and efficient nonprofit...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
back to basics," said Bruce Harreld (MBA '75), SVP of strategy at IBM. "Our goal is to increase the efficiency of organizational systems by creating software that remaps how processes work together." Steven Elterich, president of Fidelity...
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- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
to coach your kids, take on a service project, to be involved in your church, to volunteer with entrepreneurs I think the more creative you are and the more opportunity you'll have to bring that talent and creativity back to your office and make you more View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
more efficient process. The big companies, notes Williams, are too big; innovation, he says—particularly these kinds of radically reengineered and modified models—is the province of smaller companies. And groups like the Secklers have the...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
long-term rates rise, he doesn’t expect a return to 9 percent cap rates. He argues that structural changes in the commercial real estate business have permanently lowered investor risks, justifying a lower return. “The efficiency of...
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- 17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
that problem, and all I found were innovations in textbooks or classroom management; people were bringing radical efficiencies to a failed model. Then I met Avi, who had taught himself how to code as a kid and had an amazing career...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
one-stop guide to managing acute orthopedic injuries. Unlike other handbooks, it provides a comprehensive yet concise set of diagnostic and management tools to help doctors deliver optimal, evidence-based, and efficient patient care....
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
profitable and sustainable airline if we don't have a very slim and efficient cost structure," she says. "And it's a challenge for the region because there are a lot of regulations that make our cost bar much higher than our competitors...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
about how do you get a monopoly to behave in a manner that treats its customers with respect, that drives efficiency and innovation as it would if it was competing for its business and for its life. If you'd asked me would I want to do...
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