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- 01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
explains Wolfensohn, who speaks with quiet authority and more than a trace of his native accent. At the World Bank, Wolfensohn acted decisively to decentralize operations, root out corruption, utilize...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Ali Allawi
I stayed in a hotel until the house was ready for occupancy. But then as the security situation deteriorated, I made a decision not to live in the Green Zone. I didn’t want to be associated with the kind of bubble environment that emerged...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
of immediate usefulness. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade Risk by Daniel Wagner and Dante Disparte (PLDA 6) (Palgrave Macmillan) The authors call for a...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future
University. As a junior, he was elected student-body president, a role that included serving on a state government reform commission tasked with understanding how public policy decisions had limited Louisiana’s potential. When he applied...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
accounting and SEC rules throughout that portion of the company where he had direct authority and accountability. Since Enron is certainly not the only company to have engaged in such gaming, the important question raised by this marker...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
“the political folks made a decision to get people in the system first and then fight about cost later.” Wcislo serves on the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority (“the Connector”), an...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
- a process that began in the years following World War II - by limiting the increase in the size of the faculty so as to sustain the quality and unique character of the HBS community. "Larry had to make some tough decisions in this...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books
probiotic beverage products throughout different regions of the world. The book includes in-depth knowledge of local authors on indigenous and commercially produced probiotic beverages and related products. Examining current advancements...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
election but the “employer doesn’t have the right to force one.” The reality is that the only thing companies can “force” is the union’s hand. Does the union truly represent a majority of employees, or are authorization cards obtained...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership
not yet a partner, he was able to get Weinberg’s okay that a study of Goldman Sachs’s new business activities might be worth undertaking. The study was authorized on January 20, 1956, and completed several months later. But on the advice...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170 billion in pension and mutual funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
doesn’t really keep me up. I have a terrific group of colleagues, and I never make a decision alone. There’s so much intelligence and integrity here that I have complete confidence in what we do. Of course I sometimes worry about another...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the university-based business school:...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
managers who, with little of their own money at risk, were spending corporate resources on ill-conceived diversification and empire-building campaigns." "Unfortunately," Jensen concludes, "too much of the current M&A; activity falls into the latter category." Professor...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand
humiliated. Higher status used to be equated with wisdom. A person at the top, or anyone older and more experienced, could claim to know more than those below. He could have the final word, issue decisions in a puff of smoke, and tell...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges, the authors provide 30 detailed, real-world examples to transform the way you...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Choice." The author of three Times columns - "About New York," "Life in the 30s," and "Public and Private" - between 1981 and 1995, Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1992. Three years later, she surprised her readers and...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
adept at discovering new opportunities and turning them into big businesses. The authors reveal their proprietary blueprint for installing a permanent growth capability inside any company, the Growth Operating System, which borrows the...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand
one whose insights were grounded in a profound understanding of practice.” The author or coauthor of numerous articles and eight books, Levitt left an indelible mark on the business world with two pieces in particular, both published in...
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