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- 15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Senior Lecturer José Alvarez visited wheat fields at a farm owned and run by the Duhau Group in Argentina’s Pampa region. The company was the subject of a case Alvarez wrote, which he taught in the Agribusiness Seminar in 2019. (photo by... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000) in the New York office of Tinker Tailor, her new online couture business. When HBS first turned a scholarly eye to retail in the early 20th century, department stores were king. Institutions like Filene’s and Jordan Marsh were the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
somewhat different, given the ongoing nature of the Disney story. Like any good Hollywood movie — packed with plot twists and memorable characters — it promises to keep its audience guessing for the foreseeable future. — Julia Hanna “Saving Disney” was the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
Levy, CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, if he would serve as the subject for a multimedia case study currently taught in the MBA Program’s General Management elective and in the AMP Executive Education program. “I told... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
buildings. Since it was not, technically, “on the air,” the station was unlicensed and not subject to FCC regulation. In January 1948, members of the MBA Class of 1948 who were radio hams had made it possible for HBS to receive the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
standing ovation. And as timing would have it, the event convened in the midst of a brewing struggle over Europe’s direction, the subject of a thought-provoking plenary panel discussion. Another surprise was London’s unusually hot... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
in the United States. Those profits are now subject to a 35 percent corporate tax rate, but the tax can be totally avoided as long as American corporations hold the profits in their accounts at foreign banks. The current system needs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
revenue-neutral reform: A much-reduced rate, to facilitate US domestic investment and discourage transfer pricing games. A transition to a territorial regime of taxation with only US-earned profits subject to taxation and foreign... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
As the Future Catches You
its serious subject matter. Alternately teasing and solemn - but unfailingly provocative - it is intended to push the boundaries of intellectual engagement in order to provide a deeper understanding of what the future will mean to all... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
possible threats to market capitalism. He will also lead sessions on the topic at the upcoming Business Summit at HBS in October, when no doubt new and pressing dangers will be the subject of passionate discussion. But sadly, at the end... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
study program. This group will also work with HBS faculty and students in programs to encourage women to pursue high-level careers in management. C200 will assist the initiative by helping to identify women who are key decision-makers and asking them to serve as View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
with stores across East and Southeast Asia. The company became the subject of a 1990 HBS case study. In 1989, Lai branched out into the media world, starting up Next, an irreverent Cantonese-language magazine that quickly clicked with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
with the demands of career and family. “It’s a trick, a skill, an art, a science that very few people manage,” he said. After the highs of achievement, Sahlman broached the darker subject of tough times. “You turned immediately to me.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
Service, Success," a five-volume video series in which each video addresses a fundamental element of service management. A related topic, Achieving Breakthrough Service, also the subject of a video, has been developed into a weeklong... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
introduction, students have no required courses. Rather, they pick from eleven “foundations” subject areas, including finance, human resources, marketing, microeconomics, and operations. In a major break with the one-size-fits-all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Trust Me
might attribute the cooperation to the existence of the contract. This will inhibit the development of trust.” In an experiment where subjects interfaced with a computer program that Malhotra and Murnighan designed to test trust, the pair... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Hispanic market was indeed here to stay as a stand-alone entity. At a dinner at our 25th Reunion, Ted Levitt, to my complete surprise, acknowledged that he had been wrong and that I had been right on the subject of the Hispanic market.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
subject is a $1.4 billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique known as the Mozal project. Ravaged by a seventeen-year civil war that claimed 700,000 lives and destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure, Mozambique presented formidable... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.
Boeing, one of your first decisions was to pay a $615 million penalty to the Justice Department for illegal actions Boeing took to win contract work from the government. How would you distill your philosophy on the subject of leadership?... View Details