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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
has held that sheer corporate size could ensure industry dominance. Toyota, shunning these approaches, took advantage of this Detroit “blind spot.” While less generous in its compensation packages for workers, Toyota “strives to use its View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure Increased corporate financial reporting may benefit many parties but not necessarily the companies themselves. New research by Assistant Professor Romana Autrey and her coauthors looks at the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to nonprofit grantee partners, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. At HBS, Goldenberg served as co-president of the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) and has since... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
organized by C.B. Sung (MBA ’50), a Chinese native who, upon graduation, found himself unable to go home after his country’s fall to Communist forces in 1949. With the gradual opening of China, Sung, a career executive at Motorola, made... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Can’t Forget the Motor City
’85), key players on the presidential task force that’s deciding what to do about the U.S. auto industry. As a longtime special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers union, Bloom previously used skills he honed at Lazard... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
address topics like emotional coping skills, the food supply, and even one on Gospel music. “We want to lift each other up.” Virtual Alumni Forums Offer Deeper Connection in Unsettling Times For the more than 500 alumni participating in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Many of the low-income employees who lost their jobs when white-collar workers stopped commuting may never get those jobs back, according to some economists, who point to COVID’s lasting impacts on the labor market. Now a national... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
better to pay people well, in order to maintain demand for goods and services. Higher wages would induce companies to get serious about improving productivity, instead of thinking that productivity "gains" are best made by cutting workers and View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
(MBA 1976) of Extrusion Technology agrees. “I enjoy creating an environment that allows our employees to learn and change,” he says. “The labor force we hire from is generally less skilled, and we’re able to... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. Over the coming months, Porter, Rivkin, and a number of HBS faculty involved with the project will participate in a series of alumni events across the country designed to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
organizations that have found a way to achieve both aims—financial and quality—that’s really the exciting direction. But getting there is not going to happen through incremental or isolated changes. What would it take to force change of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
new IXP Twitter feed is a fun way to get an immediate sense of what a few of the four hundred or so IXP student participants are doing and seeing on a day-to-day basis during the January break. With tweets coming in from IXP sites in... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
Jefferson’s résumé confirms that if he’d opted to remain in the private sector, he would be making some serious money based on his leadership skills alone. Case in point: A West Point graduate and Green Beret, Jefferson was on a classified Special View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Relations, and one of the driving forces behind the School's Global Alumni Conferences, began by praising the conference cochairs' hard work and dedication in organizing the event. In his remarks to the capacity crowd, he quipped that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
reason why the government found itself forced by the fears (some fantastic but others quite justified) of the electorate to act. Firms such as Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and American Tobacco seemed to be monsters, archetypes of some... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
other, similar programs, like the Barclays Accelerator and Startupbootcamp FinTech New York. The model has an annual cycle, beginning with a selection panel (made up of leading financial institutions) that chooses a small cohort of startups from a large pool of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
necessary but no longer sufficient. Nonprofits need to show that they are making systemic changes.” For their part, some participants expressed concern that the push for business-like practices, while necessary, put too much emphasis on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
sector, government, labor associations, and civic advocacy groups. The impact of this national summit on its participants was perhaps best described by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who declared... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details