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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
underperform and be overcompensated. A caricature, but sadly still true: consider the enormous pay packages for CEOs in companies that lose money. Shareholder protests (such as those in the United Kingdom), voting against compensation... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
of editor in 1955, around the time Dean David retired and was replaced by Dean Stanley F. Teele. Fenn's style favored bold headlines, dramatic photography, and lively alumni profiles. He was not afraid to tackle controversial topics. An article titled "Why Businessmen... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
voted to admit women for the two-year degree. The physical campus still had some catching up to do, however, with very few bathrooms for women and none in Aldrich until late 1970. Women were not allowed to live on campus until the fall of... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Project Runway
test of fashion creativity and skill under time constraints and other pressures. “The cameras are on you from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed,” Estrella told the San Francisco Chronicle (July 9, 2006). “My approach was to be very positive and say very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
educational institutions. A Democracy Is Born: An Insider’s Account of the Battle against Terrorism in Afghanistan by Matthew J. Morgan (MBA ’07) (Greenwood Publishing Group) In October 2004, more than 8 million citizens of Afghanistan View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
source of America’s economic decline and fading international power and provide an action plan for restoring “true” democracy, in which politicians provide only the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS at 100: School to Celebrate Centennial
HBS was established by votes of the Corporation of Harvard University on March 30 and April 8, 1908, with the first 24 students enrolling in October. Nearly 100 years later, the School has begun the early planning for worldwide events to... View Details
Keywords: Centennial
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Botkin (MBA ’68, DBA ’73) Cambridge, MA A Vote for MVP In the March Bulletin, writer Deborah Blagg touched all the bases in “Local Hero,” her article about San Francisco Giants president Larry Baer (MBA ’85). For all his wizardry and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
and not tooting his own horn, I’ll give a vote for Michael Horn’s podcast, Future U. It’s great for anyone interested in higher ed and workforce development. —Scott Benson (MBA 2008) I’ve been listening to many of the podcasts by Mark... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Crowdfunding capital for small business
like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital.” Although the partners had been friends for four decades, they had never worked together before iCrowd. McGee, a US Navy veteran,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent of the View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
With online crowd votes from more than 1,200 alumni and MBA students, the winners of the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition have been crowned. Winner of the crowd-voted Most Innovative and Greatest Impact categories is York Street... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
J.R. Klein Oxford University Press In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization is increasingly under the microscope. The view that the reversal of globalization and a return to protectionism and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and resells it at market rates to consumers. Working Assets takes the equivalent of 1 percent of each person's phone bill and enters it into a nonprofit donation pool that goes each year to a rotating roster of sixty nonprofits voted on... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
adjunct professor at Kellogg. In 1995, he sold the businesses, and when the school offered him a fulltime teaching position, he knew he had found his true calling. Rogers, the Gund Family Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, has been View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Creating Change
worsen the other side’s no-agreement alternative. If people in the organization think the worse thing that can happen is that everything stays the same, it’s very hard to push change.” The alumni advocating for change filed a lawsuit that would have closed the club’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
MBA 2011) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a “community-curated marketplace for independent fashion” that circumvents the traditional department store model by giving consumers a voting voice to determine which... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the movements for racial equality and women’s suffrage. The Wilson that emerges is a man superbly unsuited to the moment when he ascended to the presidency in 1912, as the struggle for women’s voting rights in America reached the tipping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
custom. Working mothers, for example, could no longer use the extra hour to pick up children from school and share a meal with the entire family. Yet a majority of the company’s employees voted to make the change. In moving closer to the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons