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- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
has chosen to examine make them difficult to manage and generate conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. Indeed, he points out that managers often forgo... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
a victim, Lemmon argues that too often we are comfortable with a narrative that sees women as objects of pity. “Women have been pulling families through dark periods in even the most difficult countries without any acknowledgment,” Lemmon says. “Emerging strong View Details
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
encouragement. Entrepreneurship is like an intellectual onion, one of his Finance advisors told him. You peel it and peel it, it makes you cry, and there’s nothing in the middle. There were some exceptions... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
totaling $375 billion. Nine are large enough to be listed in the S&P 500. Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
McNamara Illustration by Zak Pullen For a man who once commanded huge organizations and made decisions affecting the lives of millions, Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) is mostly on his own these days. Dressed casually in khakis View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
to senior generals, I observe leaders who have largely internalized all four central components of the re-professionalized military identity: 1) war fighter, 2) servant of the nation, 3) member of a profession, and 4) leader of character.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
organizations diagnose and solve the various types of trust problems that they face internally and externally. I also study issues related to international and ethno-political... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
and a last-minute plan to swap employees between the two companies, the dealer conflicts intensified, KDC market share declined sharply, losses mounted, 2,000 jobs were cut, View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine APRIL 15 As the reality of the conflict in Ukraine became clear in March, Antoine... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
are localized events and not close enough to home. We have not had a real conflict about water, but when that happens, people will pay attention.” Yes – Nicole has identified myriad challenges as governments... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
his king, his conscience, his understanding of the law, and his commitments to his family. So we are left with a pretty good example of what it looks like to try to make good on conflicting moral principles... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
marine-energy outfits begin to deploy larger systems, they will have to show that their technology poses no threat to local marine and coastal ecosystems and will not conflict... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
One of the fascinating challenges today is in the life sciences. In many areas related to biotechnology, there are conflicting patents covering areas such as the tools necessary to do research. Yet there is far less of a tradition of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
a record of racist or misogynist or homophobic tendencies. Boards of directors afflicted by conflict or indifference will sometimes look the other way at the actions of their management teams. All of this, of course, is unacceptable. And,... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) is a journalist and author of two New York Times best selling books. She was a political reporter and a TV... View Details
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2.4 Disciplinary Process | MBA
senior staff member, and one administrator to the Board (the Administrator), who is a non-voting member. The individuals who serve in these roles may change from case to case as there are more standing members of the CRB available. This... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Salman Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and unassuming, despite... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
one learns to handle such everyday conflict with grace. As you think about the responsibilities you take on as you graduate today, keep in mind that despite the criticisms that may be levied at businesses View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
possible. Late arrivals and early departures from the immersion are considered unexcused absences and are in violation of the Attendance Policy. Before the immersion begins, if a student anticipates needing... View Details