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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
blames the music industry's recent problems, perhaps ironically, on the compact disc. In the early 1980s, this little piece of hardware rescued the music business from the lethargy of the post-disco era - the industry's only other down period in recent history. With... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
to take hold. Do you think these changes are a step in the right direction? It depends on how the DNI role plays out. I see three possible outcomes — two bad and one good. One possibility is that we give in to the temptation to centralize — give all the View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
teeter-totter where even if my team is experiencing me or clients are seeing leader A, sometimes to be truthful, I'm feeling quite leader B on the inside. April: Tell me about some of the dangers that come with operating in leader B mode. What View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Disruption doesn’t create growth; instead, growth creates disruption. Growth is always hard, and disruptive growth is exponentially harder. It requires companies to make tough decisions in the face of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
impact from this global pandemic and have an opportunity to use their investment decisions to support companies that make positive change. What about long-term negative impacts to the health care venture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Tom Stemberg (MBA ’73), founder and former CEO of Staples, which had received start-up backing from Romney’s Bain Capital, urged him to make universal health-care coverage a priority. Certainly the stars already seemed to be aligning: As... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
Debbi, who told him to stop justifying his decision. If he was going to make the move, just do it. They had planned financially for the moment, fully aware that going the nonprofit route would mean a substantial pay cut. That part was... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
market. So the future of Li & Fung is selling to the Chinese market, not just sourcing manufactured exports from China to the West. In fact, we expect to expand into selling to India as well. Those are the new markets of the world. How do you View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
leading a life of significance and purpose that is dedicated to serving others. The book comes alive through the author’s story, of how his legacy shaped his worldview and drove decisions that eventually led to his own crucible moment.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The creative destruction of capitalism... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
future, Glover eschews forming any specific long-term goals. "I think you have to just keep making good decisions that reflect your values. Life continues to evolve," she concludes, "and I'm looking forward... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
shared their latest research on US competitiveness and issued calls to action urging alumni to get involved in helping solve the country’s or their communities’ competitiveness challenges. “Hundreds of alumni attended these events, and since then many have stepped up... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
The blind man depicted in the sculpture suffers from river blindness, a disease that ravaged countless lives in the developing world until Merck researchers discovered the breakthrough drug Mectizan. The company's decision to donate the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
tax incentives), they will work on the set for months at a time and follow through on marketing once the film is complete. However, there are often no guarantees that a project will make it to the big screen, and for that reason it’s... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
telling stories, how they make decisions that affect all students. Similarly, leaders have become teachers in knowledge-centric environments; they can’t just tell people what to do but must help them acquire... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
make sense of family-business dynamics. The School has made further strides in the past six years with courses, cases, and conferences designed to explore the frustrating yet fascinating dynamics that make... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
their capability to start a business six months from now, but also prepare them to think through entry decisions that will happen down the road. Thomas Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration; Peter O.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (MBA ’03) was excelling at his job — selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals — when the company’s 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new approach, Klump was expected to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
anything. Tell it to them straight. That's what they want. They want to dig into the details. And then they will feel empowered to make decisions on their own. Tell me what meth-induced psychosis is. Show me... View Details