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- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
Although 40 percent of WPP's business still comes from the United States—a reflection of the continuing dominance of this country's multinationals and financial services firms—Sorrell's frequent visits to what he calls "faster growing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to fail have hit a fever pitch. At present, there are two View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly—beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
industrial company, providing wood slats to pencil manufacturers; Levitt urged him to form a separate entity to focus primarily on the marketing of a branded, high-quality firelog, which continues to dominate the market. “Ted had an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
who are no strangers to violent protests, mocked the ruckus with the Twitter hashtag #angrybird in reference to violence meted out by drivers from the dominant taxi company, Blue Bird. The company apologized and atoned with free trips... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
think, ‘Maybe there could be a whole television channel devoted to food.’ It was a big question mark,” Duda says now with a laugh. “I’ve worked on a small part of a big canvas of cultural change,” Duda says of his consulting career in the culinary world. As food became... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
politics, and a business landscape dominated by yesterday’s champions. Murphy places these troubles in a broad historical context, combining analyses of Japanese culture and society over the centuries with accounts of Japan's numerous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
established market channels. Many top-notch sales reps balked at taking on a new company that would compete with the brands they were used to selling. Similarly, many retail outlets weren’t interested in adding a new brand to their already crowded shelves and racks of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
government is the problem.” Thereafter, regulatory minimalism and a “market knows best” mindset took hold in Washington and on Wall Street and dominated decision-making for nearly three decades. Lawmakers not only weakened or dismantled... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
industry wouldn’t survive because a certain retailer was dominating the market. She felt somewhat uplifted as she joined the conversation and learned that the time frame being discussed was the 1970s and that the retailer was Sears. View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
been living in an America-centric world in terms of business education and the conduct of business. The most important management practices were being developed at American companies. That’s changing. Although America will continue to be enormously important and a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
“He reminded me that it wasn’t my dominant hand that was injured, and that I needed to focus on all that remained, not on what I had lost.” So when the Army gave him a prosthesis, Jefferson chose not to use it, and instead guided himself... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
pressures exist for other students who are in a minority: They feel a subconscious pressure to exceed and excel every time and to prove themselves on behalf of their race, gender, or religion. Consider also the experience of a student in a section where participation... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
anything, but they ended up retreating and making it, sending it to the international division and making it a Spanish dominant channel again. But it was the time of my life. So I definitely don't consider it a failure because it's one of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Detroit’s auto dominance is just like the challenge Silicon Valley is facing to its innovation dominance. We can already see some of this, says Alex. London has become a global capital of fintech innovation, Estonia has become the go-to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
president - McKinsey & Company's Marvin Bower (MBA '30) reported on the effort to "streamline Bulletin make-up and typography." Content of the quarterly magazine was dominated by the School's involvement in wartime training courses,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
accepted the girls." And in an early affirmation of what we now know as work-life balance: "I feel the traits that Western society has traditionally attributed to women can be combined with a challenging vocation rather than dominated by... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
corruption and mismanagement that have dominated the headlines are not pervasive,” she says. But given all the negative publicity, she adds, “I’m worried about the pipeline of talent. It’s harder to find good people who want to be CEOs or... View Details