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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Manufacturers. China and the World Trade Organization Within this context of quickening economic change, China was admitted to the WTO in December 2001, culminating fifteen years of on-again, off-again negotiations. It was a watershed moment in the country’s progress...
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- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
damaged us but it didn't." Who you are and what you stand for as an organization have great relevance to the people who buy your product. Many of U2's supporters embrace the band because the causes the four members work to address—from...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
that cause global warming. The case, which is taught in the first-year MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, confronts students with the same dilemma. And according to Sucher, the discussion was intense: “Students pulled...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
unprecedented session brought together faculty with expertise in all aspects of business for a far-reaching discussion of the fallen corporate giant. Palepu opened the discussion by stating the afternoon's objectives. “Together, we will try to make sense of what...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
employees. A skilled shipfitter named Gale Tribble had been crouching and crawling in cramped spaces for 43 of his 62 years. His body was falling apart, but he could not afford to retire. Osly Heinandez, just 21 years old, knew the work he was doing would View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the...
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
are its major themes? Geoffrey Jones: I have long been interested in the causes of globalization and its impact on societies. Both questions are best answered by looking at lengthy periods of time, and this has been my focus. I have often...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Internet. And yes, Carraway said her team had its share of failure in the process. "After we conducted our market interviews, we realized that some of our questions were leading and that we hadn't thought to talk to people while they were...
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Margie Kelley
- 25 May 2016
- News
A Focus on Sustainability
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972), who enjoyed a remarkably successful career in the investment business, has spent much of the last decade focused on his passion for the environment. Channeling his energy, intelligence, and philanthropic dollars into...
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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
Corning 2007 Named Chairman, Corning 2007 Corning markets Gorilla Glass 2013 Fast Company names Corning one of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated As CEO of Corning Incorporated, Wendell Weeks...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks...
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- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its underlying causes and mechanisms. In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
steer it so it doesn’t have negative impacts on the environment. We’re not for stopping economic growth; we’re advocating being smart about it. The first part of our goal statement is about conserving the world’s most important places. But the second half is effecting...
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Roger Thompson
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Abstract—This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were responsible for mistakes that View Details
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
panic selling caused an unprecedented early shutdown of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Horie, who denies wrongdoing, was arrested on January 23. What went wrong at Livedoor, and what are we to learn from its undoing? Robin Greenwood, an...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
consumers and in the communities where we operated. Contrary to competitive motives that seek to improve companies' market share, the risk management motivation mainly attempted to preserve a favorable status quo. Very often these were...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
motion, bringing Greeks back home to further strengthen the labor market and create new economic opportunities. “After 12 years of training in Greece, these talented individuals immigrate primarily to the United States or Europe, where...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tremors in his bow whenever he practiced, he immediately knew that something in his body was out of sync. He was diagnosed with essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary and rhythmic shaking of the arms or hands....
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Janelle Nanos
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
technology that will take a long time to develop, the financing challenges that come with that, and a firmly established market status quo. The risks, he says, are worth it. "When people feel like they are part of a grand cause, they stay...
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