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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
Executive Education — typically contribute more than half of the total budget. But both units are vulnerable to economic downturns, and demand for HBP products and programs offered by Executive Education were projected to suffer from a View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
company"—with revenues of more than $170 billion. That said, the Japanese economy was showing signs of serious weakness at the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century. Management practices such as lifetime employment guarantees... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
This well-written book, leavened by healthy doses of self-deprecating humor, offers a unique perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of HBS in the late 1960s and is a tribute to the tenacity and spirit of its author. View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
do I help weak performers improve quickly? How do I coach our strongest performers to become even stronger? —Lauren Moore Park (MBA 2011) Principal-in-Residence, Achievement First, Brooklyn, New York What needs to change in education?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
lengths to explain their methodologies,” he adds, “but most people don’t have the time or inclination to go that deep. They just stop at the number.” Behind the Numbers Going beyond the numbers to look at the methodologies reveals View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
instead of bringing us together” (Reuters, December 9, 2009). Immelt went on to say that leaders “share a common responsibility to narrow the gap between the weak and the strong. I have taken on the challenge to increase manufacturing... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
positive relationship between risk and return is strong between asset classes (say, stocks and bonds), it is weak within classes, such as the stock market. By analyzing a large sample of historical data from US banks, Baker has found that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student learned the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the systemic... View Details
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
educators, to strengthen education, rather than simply alleviating the symptoms of a weak system. “That’s really needed if America is going to lead in public education and business competitiveness,” says Rivkin. The alliance also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
who won an auction for about $19 million in government-seized bitcoins in July. “Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy with weak currencies,” Draper noted in a statement. Most governments want to control... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
because corruption had destroyed her hopes for her country and her son’s future. “People in poor countries are not resigned to corruption, they actively despise it,” Baker says. “It is rooted in the weak rule of law, not poverty. Good... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
it offends our civil liberties, or be so weak that it can't protect our security? As in the fight against any kind of organized crime, we must find the right balance. The National Commission on Terrorism that I chaired found that the use... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
staff exactly what kinds of challenges Pine Mountain faced and how he planned to meet them; conducted a series of town hall meetings to reestablish trust with the community; and commissioned a strategic assessment to identify the school’s key strengths and View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
confront several hurdles besides raising money. To channel donations, many need to create links to nonprofits and often face mistrust. Some dot-com CEOs said they were perceived as Internet “robber barons,” out to take advantage of the nonprofit community. WEBSEs must... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
reader to imagine a workplace where everyone speaks openly about their weaknesses and are committed to overcoming them, where colleagues help each other become more efficient and less disruptive by speaking the truth about what detracts... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
think the economy is going to get weaker, we tend to buy companies that do better than others. In a weak economy, when we see potential for a big rebound, we tend to buy cyclicals because those companies tend to do the best in the early... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
After HBS, I went to Starbucks where I loved the company and it showed. My work was featured in the press and Howard Schultz had me present to his board. Yet my male manager gave me a “meets expectations” review for weakness in... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
need. This is often the biggest weakness in entrepreneurship. Many people, especially tech people, lead with a solution in search of a problem. I also often see entrepreneurs leap from the see stage to the scale stage. They layer lots of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
relatively weak central government. Over time, one hopes that these regions will flow together rather than flow apart, because if they are fragments, no country in the world is going to recognize the resul-tant components. You write that... View Details