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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
and ethical performance. The first step should be a rigorous, top-to-bottom review of the firm’s decision-making and management with a special focus on its pay systems, information flows, control functions,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
native knew an icon—and a challenge—when he saw one. In 2009 he stepped into the role of managing director, Harley-Davidson India. Entering the Indian market had plenty of challenges related to tariffs, accessibility, and brand... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
pirates, who then manage to get the state to cement their gains and become legitimate," stated Spar. For their respective eras, she asserts, Sir Francis Drake and Rupert Murdoch are kindred spirits who played such roles. More recent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
US elections. David Perpich (MBA 2007) oversaw the development of that groundbreaking paywall and has led the company in the development of successful new digital products such as NYT Cooking. Now we ask Perpich—named president and general View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
1943. “This is the complexity you need to run five qubits,” Levy says, referring to the fundamental units of information used in quantum computing. Qubit is shorthand for “quantum bit,” a bit being the basic unit of information used in digital, or classical, computing.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
of a sudden I became the credit manager in the worst economic times we'd had since the Depression. I'M THE ONLY PERSON in my family who didn't grow up in Seattle. I've always felt I can walk away anytime, even today. IT'S A MISCONCEPTION... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and exploring the Asian View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
tools are usually just a way to get something online quickly, provided it fits one of the use cases that the tool covers). But Bubble is very open-ended. It requires some learning, but it lets people build exactly what they want, as they can View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Executive Development Program (EDP), a special executive training course for the Bank's upper-level managers. "I felt that the World Bank's top people should have an intensive exposure to the latest ideas and techniques in the management... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
in brand-new cars. Several of them were continuing to make poor financial choices, and, when we reviewed their personal balance sheets, they were completely out of control. How could they manage their company’s finances if they can’t... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
large and relatively stationary concrete ring by flexible tendons. As the float interacts with ocean waves, the movement of the tendons drives the generators, converting mechanical energy into electricity. Smith in the RITE control room,... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
of things. The 72 alumni were among 400 who returned to campus to join 936 students for the inaugural HBS Boardroom, a new RC capstone experience that includes first-year student teams presenting case-based management decisions to alumni... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Ruth Goodwin-Groen (MBA 2001) has a lot of work to do. “Our job will not be done until all people—old or young, rich or poor, male or female—are able to make and receive payments in a way that works for them,” says Goodwin-Groen, View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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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 disciplines - such as manufacturing, sales, even accounting and... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first therapeutic sail, for eight disabled... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
imagining a world where I wasn't running this business that we had started, and where I couldn't necessarily control if it was going to be successful or not, that was really helpful to experience that versus just theoretically... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
brand management that avoids traditional brand tenets of control and competition, largely adopted from the private sector, in favor of a strategic approach centered on the mission and based on participation,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of hundreds and perhaps thousands of dogs and cats (the numbers remain unclear, as there is no centralized database of such information). While the situation was uncertain, there was some concern that a production run of SmartPak’s LiveSmart Weight View Details