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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
hundreds of billions annually into western coffers.” Recently, due to its opacity and ease of incorporation (of dummy as well as legitimate companies), Britain’s independent Tax Justice Network placed the state of Delaware at the top of its Financial Secrecy Index,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
encouraging, though their release is. Last year marked the first time most of the leading technology companies publicly reported statistics on gender diversity. The conversation is changing. The question is no longer, does the tech... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
LEVITT The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time — not a minute more or less — a slight... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
current environment. The way that we're seeing it as an opportunity to learn from how to help people make effective changes that align with this new time and how they want to live their lives. For instance, we just did a piece last week... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
you can’t pronounce . Part of the strategy revolution was the coming of what I’ll call Greater Taylorism, the corporation’s application of sharp-penciled analytics, this time not to the performance of an individual worker — how fast a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
inspiration boards with images ranging from playful to sexy to Brooklyn, to get a better sense of the brand Jess Deckinger describes as “warm and fuzzy,” and “a cooler way to do dating.” As the meeting ends, one designer sums up the Deckingers visual View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
inputs that are 19 percent cheaper," says Masha. "We get them the knowledge to increase their yields up to three times the national average, and sell their produce for about 37 percent higher than what they can get themselves." When Masha... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
room. You will never regret it, and you'll build a strong reputation." Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991), managing director, Golden Seeds; blogger, Novofemina.com, Boston, Massachusetts I'd offer three ideas to female MBAs. First, take the time... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
day game guy, all the way.” Instant replay in baseball? “Very limited use is probably OK, but I prefer human judgment.” Favorite player? “Mays, the greatest ballplayer ever.” The group Baer helped assemble paid $100 million for a storied... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
legitimacy for an area of study considered difficult to teach and lacking intellectual heft. In 1978, Stevenson returned to the private sector, this time to become VP of finance and administration at Preco, a pulp and specialty-paper... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
ago, Nohria made advancement of the School’s international strategy one of his top five priorities. “Today, HBS would be derelict in its mission if it weren’t preparing the leaders it educates to succeed in a global context,” says Nohria. How View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
more focus and intention to the organization’s future state. Over a two-hour strategy session with the McKinsey team and her regional directors in August, McKenna takes notes in a Moleskine notebook. (She prefers the ones lined with graph... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
long history in the European market, gaining iconic status in England in the 1970s and '80s. But now, on the verge of bankruptcy, the company was having a hard time making payroll. Seeing an opportunity, Cohen's firm bought it and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter (pronounced “SHOOMpayter”) to the study of economic behavior was to humanize it. In part because of his own turbulent life, he came to understand that mathematical certitude could not always prevail where “indeterminate human behavior,” in McCraw’s words, is... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
local companies was dictated by Fenwick-Smith’s preferred working style and his convictions: He wanted lots of face time with young leaders and the burgeoning companies Aravaipa would fund, while also being... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
While many in this election year are focused on issues that divide the United States and the damage this discord may be doing to democracy, historian David Moss offers a perspective rooted in American democracy’s resilient past. “There have been many View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg