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- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
Worldwide Week global engagement initiative, the panel featured experts from the design, planning, technology, transportation, and business communities. "The question is not so much whether cities can survive, but whether their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers View Details
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
strikingly come to the fore this past year, here in the US and across the world. We have been alternately devastated and heartened by what we’ve seen: civil protests over the repeated, now increasingly... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
job." Jon and George Pellegrin were grappling with issues common to any company: managerial differences, power clashes, succession questions. But ratcheting up the intensity of their struggle was the fact that they were not just talking... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
independent and sharp-eyed accounting firms — the alternative would be a disaster of bureaucratic gridlock in the form of line-by-line audits by the federal government. Can Wall Street's leaders restore... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
everything. I would get in at 6 a.m. to clean the office and make coffee, and then just do whatever needed to be done in order to move the ball forward, from sales and... View Details
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
At Harvard Business School, one of professor Rafael Di Tella's areas of study is how political corruption and common crime can be controlled in a variety of contexts. So it was only natural that Di Tella... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- Profile
Luciana Baigun
catch at the best prices. Curious, she asked her colleagues about the phenomenon and learned about M-PESA in Kenya, a mobile payment system that allows people without bank View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
begin in childhood, Fisher and two partners developed the basic structure for FitMoney, a program to be embedded in K–12 curricula. “We want children to become confident and competent in View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
and entrepreneurial management, done with colleagues C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr. at the University of Michigan. Their research will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Financial... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
manufacturer, including the farming of long staple cotton in northwest China. "When I control my materials, I control my own destiny," she says matter-of-factly. Since the state wasn't rewarding farmers for... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
of PowerInbox, says it’s too soon to call it quits on email—far from it, in fact. PowerInbox, which manages targeted ads within subscriber-based newsletters for publishers like Crain Communications and the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
the risks are no longer connected to individuals who possess the incentive, power and capability to take action and manage the risks." Stephen Basikoti agreed, noting that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
continuity; discard control systems that limit creativity; discourage too much "convergent" thinking that "thrives on focus"; encourage processes that identify View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
war’s progress? In matters of the human spirit, numbers could be deceiving. After teaching accounting and control for three years at HBS, McNamara became a War Department... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
becoming the victim of its own success, according to the leaders of the Marketing unit at HBS. "Advances in technology and fundamental changes in how products and services are delivered are enabling other... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
handles that. And can he use those negotiating skills and those communication skills and create shared value skills in a situation where there’s no walk-away option View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Press), HBS professor and business historian Nancy Koehn selects contemporaneous news accounts from America’s paper of record to complement her essays on the rise of business in the United States View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
not Cambridge, the heart of academia, but business-like Boston, seat of august money managers and the then-hottest management consulting firm around, The Boston Consulting... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
technology is being diverted to the creation of more variations on basic ideas faster instead of “an economy based on new products/platforms/ideas.” Donald Shaw cited “problems in finding qualified people to hire.” He also said that, “It appears to me that our View Details