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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
even value-destructive practices in order to maintain it or inflate it further? And does anyone really believe that shareholders are the only constituency that matters: not customers, not employees, not the community or the country or...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Failde (MBA 1985) and May Chao (MBA 1985) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Beliefs, Behaviors, and Results: The Chief Executive's Guide to Delivering Superior Shareholder Value by Scott Gillis...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
leave big business in 1970 to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity with SABO, a small manufacturer of lawn-mower machinery with a market value of some 6 million deutsche marks. "I was particularly interested in SABO because of its...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
challenges, should business stay in its comfort zone and focus on increasing shareholder value, as many would argue? Fortunately, some businesses can do good simply by doing well, as General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) pointed...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll
practice. What keeps you up at night? Right now, I’m thinking a lot about the preservation of our balance sheet and cash position. Whatever spending we have ongoing, it clearly has to be for the highest shareholder value. We have...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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A Matter of Opinion
opened his eyes to the fact that “many different reasons bring people to the School, not just the lure of making money. One of my more conservative classmates said the purpose of business is to give people value for their money, put out a...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
career. The inherent value of the Harvard MBA enables you to take game-changing risks that others might not be able to avail themselves of. You will always be able to find a "job." Therefore, when a chance is presented to take a role or...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership
company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
laws and shareholder rights — are not well established. There's much less competition, but if you are a sharp Harvard MBA who wants to launch a start-up, many of the details will be more difficult in Latin America." Alec Oxenford of...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out graduates fixated on View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
controversial IPO in 2007, raising $458 million. Many, including Nobel Peace Prize–winner Muhammad Yunus, have accused CB of making a profit at the expense of the poor, passing most of the earnings on to shareholders rather than lowering...
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- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
book, and the last one of those is sort of counterintuitive. And it’s “share your pain.” A company goes through something like this—they’ve just lost money, it’s embarrassing. What is the value in sharing that story? Rothrock: Well, good...
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- 04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
impact coming from? Lisa Lewin: First, I think what we have seen from consumers has been incredible. Their increasing commitment to spending money on companies and brands aligned with their values has been an incredible, catalyzing force...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Greylock
making specialized hospital beds and power tools for orthopedic surgeons. It provides a case study of Elfers's dictum that the venture firm's forte should always be "strong support of portfolio companies and long-term goals of building View Details
- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
couple of hiccups on some other ones, which I won’t go into, but in fact, there was one I stepped off from because I couldn’t accept how it was being run. So you just have to do what you think is right for where you are going to play a part. And if you can’t play that...
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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
value of its philanthropic giving. The foundation recently raised a $120 million Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot fund that is investing in only three social sector organizations, including Youth Villages. The Decade Ahead IDEAS RULE:...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
is still an industry, with economic inputs, business models, competitors, value chains, and a dynamic, challenging marketplace. Gaylin examines each of the major segments (Broadway, regional theater, orchestra, opera, and dance) along...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential. Value as a Service: Embracing the Coming Disruption by Rob Bernshteyn...
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