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30 Jul 2024
News

Reddit’s Rise

grown from $100 million to $800 million, and the company went public in March 2024 at a valuation of $6.5 billion. In this special edition of Skydeck Live, recorded at spring reunions, Wong sits down with classmate and FOMO Sapiens... View Details

01 Sep 2022
News

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

do with so many of my clients is sit down with this special tool that I call Eight C. Each of the different Cs is just a different category or type of health and support that you might be able to get as a working parent, that would be... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016

compensation, specialized outside professional services in functional areas such as information technology (I.T.), and marketing and residence expenses for executive program participants. HBP and Executive Education continued to deliver... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

had learned as a corporation how to do things that all corporations must do if they are to succeed. Two of these deserve special note. First, Intel had learned how to grow. Second, it had learned how to compete. In 1971, Intel carried... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

the job done. And everybody who meets him winds up saying, ‘What a great guy he is!’ As I said, in my business, you need people like that.” Quietly, McArthur steered Harvard energy and resources into Boston, and into the School’s... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

course of a day, a week, or a year, along with the management decisions made to deal with those pressures. For example, suppose a product manager discovers that she is well below target on a new product launch. Her first inclination is to View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

spent the better part of the last two years planning and preparing for the early April event. Held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and the adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel, the meeting included two days of intense discussion... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

Snack Foods, located in Austin, Texas, manufactures, markets, and distributes snack foods and frozen treats. The CEO is passionate about maximizing shareholder value and believes in keeping tight control over costs and operating the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

this policy be designed not just to meet Utilitarian goals but also to align with the principle of Equal Sacrifice. The principle of Equal Sacrifice declares that the goal of tax policy is to share the costs of funding public goods evenly... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

15 Jun 2018
News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

up, and Susan is going to disagree with him because there's like something weird going on there, and then I'm going to jump in and win the meeting as they're fighting with each other. This act of building more robust stories in our heads,... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near Copenhagen, he had the good... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

responsibilities for public health there is an urgent need to leverage IT infrastructure to meet new challenges. Historically lean funding cycles for public health has not allowed for fundamental information technology-based reach... View Details