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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Russo at home in her Brisbane apartment. She credits her domineering Sicilian father with teaching her the street smarts to succeed in business. PHOTO BY PATRICK HAMILTON /NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Every successful entrepreneur can look back and,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
look at how the music industry functions. After years of consolidation, the business is now dominated by a handful of major distribution companies (often referred to simply as "the majors") that are responsible for some 80 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
in 2012 to 14 million in 2013. The question remains, however, whether displays that use E Ink’s technology will continue to dominate the market. A no-door policy: With marketing, manufacturing, and R&D under one roof, E Ink employees can... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
question. Japan's reliance on industrial policy had already triggered a backlash in the United States with cries of unfair trade practices. With its emphasis on size and dominant market share, Mitsubishi Corporation may have topped the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
a technical one." On April 1, 1993, he became the first CEO of IBM hired from outside company ranks. When Gerstner arrived, he found an organization that was, in some respects, a victim of its own success. Thanks to its longtime dominance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
the same role for presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison that Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from St. Croix, had filled for George Washington. As secretary of the treasury from 1801 to 1813, Gallatin dominated public financial... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
by both HBS and Adolfo Ibáñez faculty. A similar joint program will be offered in Hong Kong by 2000. "Family enterprises are the dominant business form outside the most developed countries, as well as in many highly developed countries,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
that idea with help from successful entrepreneurs in a variety of fields. What do you see for the future of the health care sector? Lately, I’ve become optimistic. It’s a big struggle to turn from an industry in which the suppliers are View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
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 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
dominated by the Sunnis. To some extent, the Shias had been sort of grudgingly accepting of it, as long as there was room for gradual improvement. In the last twenty years, this kind of accommodation was turned upside down by the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
globalized, it’s been Americanized.” If you wanted to build a global brand or service, you had to dominate the U.S. market, he explained. That is rapidly changing with the rise of multinationals in China, India, and even Korea.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
technology that offers personalized instruction, is what I hope will come out of this. Do you see online learning dominating the education sector 10 to 20 years from now, or will there be a more blended approach given that socialization... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
testing a number of hypotheses around how best to build opportunities there,” says Breyer. Looking ahead, HBS professor Josh Lerner predicts that a small number of global firms soon will dominate the venture-capital industry, while niche... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of... 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 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
hacking in India, the founders of Zomato, IndiaMart, ShopClues, Paisabazaar, and a lot more. Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First by Ram Charan (MBA 1965), Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey HBR Press Typical... 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 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
finance, when more attention should be paid to getting out in the field to find out what’s really going on and why. If teaching becomes largely quantitative and the computer is the dominant resource, case writing and field research become... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the... View Details