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- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
not be any sort of attack on this very fundamental right. On the other hand social media platforms still have an obligation to the public that they serve YouTube needs to redouble its efforts and be totally relentless in its quest to...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
Dorothy for her amusement. Unbeknownst to him, she sold it to the prestigious Story magazine for $25. When she told him, he began to think he could be a writer after all. By 1945, America was ready to forget war and deprivation and get on with the View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
Business schools are positioned on increasingly unsteady—and unpopular—ground. MBA enrollments fluctuate or decline; recruiters voice skepticism about the value of newly-minted MBA degrees; and deans, faculty, students, executives, and a concerned View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
IPA Meets IPO
line, took that concept to another level. When his company went public in 1995, Koch made sure that his loyal quaffers (at $15 a share), not Wall Street insiders (at $20), got the best stock price. He attached fliers to his six-packs that...
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- 02 Aug 2004
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For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
broken. It is really about people and ethics." B. V. Krishnamurthy concurred, saying "... the Act ... is unlikely to result in any radical transformation of the system. Such a transformation has to be an internal process with managers understanding their role...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
Summing Up The Dodd-Frank legislation provision requiring the publication of the ratio of CEO compensation to that of the average compensation level of all employees in public...
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by Jim Heskett
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
government-mandated requirements to a 3-inch endangered bait fish. When Good Deeds Invite Bad PublicityMany executives assume that investments in corporate social responsibility create public goodwill. But...
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- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
access to public institutional debt and equity capital markets and the uncertainty of small business profits makes retained earnings a necessarily less stable source of capital. About 48 percent of business owners report a major bank as...
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Alfred B. Dick
Dick conceived the idea for the mimeograph, and secured permission from Thomas Edison for what would become known as the Edison-Dick Mimeograph. At the time of Dick’s death, the Edison-Dick Mimeograph had become virtually indispensable to every kind of View Details
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2.3.2 Hazing - MBA
both such fine and imprisonment. The term “hazing” as used in this section and in sections eighteen and nineteen, shall mean any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, whether on public or private property, which...
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Morton L. Mandel
Starting with $900 and an order for hard to find car parts, Mandel and his brothers built one of the largest and most highly regarded specialty parts (electronic and industrial components) suppliers in the United States. By sourcing unique parts and providing quick...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World War II. "Banks simply...
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Theodore E. Steinway
Like other Steinways before and after him, Theodore Steinway continued the family’s dynasty in the piano making business. He is, however, known especially for his creation and publication of the Steinway family history in the mid-1950s.
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- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
provided excellent comparative data of the kind that we have seen all too little in the public debate on the matter. And nearly everyone admirably avoided the political rhetoric that has clouded rational thought about a truly complex...
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- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
ago also provided investor-friendly provisions that protected shareholders from abuses by large shareholders, managers, and other corporate insiders—protections that were even better than what was offered in the country in the late 20th...
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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do about It. Government has played similar catalytic roles in creating hubs of innovation is places such as Tel Aviv and Singapore. Such success stories...
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- 02 Sep 2010
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How Transparent Should Boards Be?
Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause with only secondary concern about...
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by Jim Heskett
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used...
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Anil Doshi
change decision-making given the propagation of customer and market data? How do individuals value their personal information and their privacy? What business models are best for the provision of information goods? Ultimately, I decided...
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