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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
demand? Yes. At HBS today we have more than fifteen hundred users of the Wall Street Journal Interactive and close to two thousand users of OneSource Business Browser over the World Wide Web. At the same... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
central bank on rhythm guitar and Serbia's minister for foreign economic relations on lead vocals. Djelic himself, along with several other government ministers, sang back-up. According to the Wall Street... View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Going the Distance for Investment Excellence
that, in his own words, was “a bit of a news junkie household.” Surrounded by stacks of publications like The Wall Street Journal, as a teenager he developed a keen understanding of macroeconomic terms—an... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
imposing "physical presence," "intellectual strength," a "natural sense of humor," and the "ability to present himself well to both Wall Street and the average... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
brother, Jacob, immigrated to Queens in 2000. They later established Bean&Bean, located in Manhattan near the Wall Street subway station, right before the financial crisis hit in 2008. The family... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
have all the information required—the environment is familiar, and that fosters self-confidence. In a start-up, however, managers don't have those comfort layers. If they can't trust their gut, they'll freeze. In one case I studied, a senior investment banker had left... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
oversees more than $16 billion. Compare these figures with data from 2003, when the entire asset class consisted of only a handful of funds managing about $12 billion. Activist investors, once considered Wall View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
There's a lot of worry afoot whenever companies merge. Wall Street worries about the stock price. Employees worry about potential job cuts. And consumers worry about the fate of their favorite products:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
and an espoused belief system that stressed respect, integrity, and communication end up in such a situation? How could an innovative business model that showed so much promise have gone wrong so suddenly? Why did Wall View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
thank them as often as I can." Jenrette, who was a journalism major at the University of North Carolina, is a talented storyteller, and the pages of his book include anecdotes from his Wall Street career,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
strategy, offered advice on strategic planning. The summit took place against the backdrop of a mounting financial crisis on Wall Street and a deteriorating economy, both of which heightened concern about... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
relationships. Unfortunately, many corporate leaders focus on profits and the Wall Street drivers toward big business and profits. It has become the death knell for many corporations." Phil Harris,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
employ and train a cadre of professional directors to serve on corporate boards (see sidebar, page 35). And HBS professors, drawing on their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major newspapers. Writing in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
followed with its own business school ranking. The two publications ruled the market for nearly a decade before the FT, Forbes, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal all launched their own rankings... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Section 404, which will become common knowledge from Wall Street to Main Street, as well as rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in recent years. This is not an issue of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
articles from the Wall Street Journal and The Economist they learn about "decision rights" and alienability and how these institutional devices solve the control problems in a capitalist society. The second... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
lower-paid workers in other countries. The second story, buried on the inside pages of the Wall Street Journal, concerned the announcement by the head of Union Network International, a federation of 900... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
the finance industry has been that "they should move from Wall Street to Seventh Avenue and be with the rest of the fashion industry." "We're never going back to the slow and lazy times,"... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
succession” is just waiting to happen. — HBS professor Joseph L. Bower is author of The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning (HBS Press, 2007). Reprinted from The Wall Street... View Details