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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
debts, substantial store closures and workforce reductions, and sufficient new private equity capital to help reposition and revitalize Daiei's retail operations. Overcoming these hurdles in a large and visible company like Daiei would be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
father [Robert K. Merton, a National Medal of Science winner whose work in theoretical sociology at Columbia University has spanned fifty years] has been a strong influence in your life and your career. What did he say when you told him?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
downtown Colombo. In the background: One Galle Face, a mixed-use hotel, office, retail, and residential project in development. In early 2009, just before returning to Sri Lanka, Mawilmada had the opportunity to try something a little different, working for the United... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Company Authors:Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom Publication:Leadership in Action, November-December 2009 Abstract Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
optimism about the future of McDonald’s that was hard to find two years ago. In January 2015, the company released its worst earnings report in 30 years, with revenue at its more than 36,000 global locations falling by 7 percent from the... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and can control their destiny using... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Congressional Oversight Panel’s report, attempt to address in several ways. First, by identifying firms that pose systemic risks, free and unlimited implicit guarantees become explicit guarantees that the government can, for the first time, define and limit. Second,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
changed naturally. That's what you want." Abdu S. Mukhtar (MBA '01), who worked for the National Kidney Foundation of Singapore (NKFS), became a nonprofit fellow the summer after he graduated from HBS, an unusual but not unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
the revolution has come to health care? While consumers have begun to insist on health care that is as convenient and personalized as nearly every other good or service, most health care provider organizations, physicians, and insurance View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
in authority who don’t like that. One joy of these series is that you can become deeply absorbed in the characters and their worlds and keep going for dozens of books—like one big War and Peace in many pieces. (This is almost like an HBS case series on View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
School Supplement 509-067 By 2008, over half of Mary Kay Cosmetics' $2.8 billion sales were from outside the U.S. Sales from China exceeded $500 million in 2008 through over 450,000 beauty consultants. China was Mary Kay Cosmetics' second most important View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
1990s, she recalls, “I had dozens of people walking through the door with business plans for InStyle.com or Time.com that were essentially trying to sell me my own content.” The situation, she reflects, reminded her of the era of consolidations in the late 1970s when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
with him and the School. Not only was he right, but he imparted his goodwill in a way we knew was a precursor to the much bigger shoes he was destined to fill. He cared and we knew it. Therein is the definition of his life. —Ron Benjamin (MBA 1969) John McArthur was a... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
composed of “propaganda written in white-hot anger with words tumbling and stumbling all over the page.” ...Several chemical companies threatened legal action. Velsicol Chemical Company, maker of chlordane and heptachlor, tried to prevent... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
philanthropic dollars in this space. It’s given us an ongoing set of analyses, both to demonstrate in a data-driven way what’s going on in our democracy, and to pinpoint where you could have the most impact at a state or national level.... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
ask me? And then as I'm asking these questions internally, I realize I'm now the Bravo Company commander, because the way it works in the army is as soon as the commander is killed in action, the next officer takes immediate command on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
forward to hearing about their impact on the broader community as their companies continue to succeed and they broaden their focus to the critical needs of our nation and the world. Ginger Graham (MBA 1986),... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
held up because of its interpretation as a tax. If you think about the environment, you think about provisions that are associated with oil and gas, drilling, natural resource extraction. If you think about the M&A market, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne