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- 01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family
job." Jon and George Pellegrin were grappling with issues common to any company: managerial differences, power clashes, succession questions. But ratcheting up the intensity of their struggle was the fact that they were not just talking manager to manager. They were... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
interest to customers (earthquakes, fires, conflicts at key border crossings) and to autonomously instruct the constellation to monitor them in a process known as “tipping and cueing.” The platform’s algorithms can interpret the radio... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
learn how to support these sorts of shared business models? If you were the CEO of an insurance company, how would you address the conflicts between this model (splitting ownership and usage) and the traditional, well understood, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
it, a country can use it. Every organization has two conflicting tasks: One is to optimize what you have today; another is to create what will give you leadership 10 years from now. That’s not a job you can wait 10 years to do. The future... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
Offspring Beth, MBA '97 John, HBS '03 Hobbies Sailing, skiing Recommended Reading A Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell "Sowell provides important insights into public policy and how it is driven by certain assumptions about human... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
reasons. First, data that I analyzed with Dr. Tim Butler of HBS and that I detail in the book show that Rich and King dominate the top motivations of entrepreneurs. Second, at key forks in the road, Rich options directly conflict with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
morning paper, a history lesson, or a conflict in the classroom," recalls Slifka. At HBS, he notes, General Georges F. Doriot's manufacturing course also had a powerful impact. "He taught us to be innovative, to be courageous, and to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
much more violent. I refused — the plot involved children — and a messy lawsuit ensued. It was horrible. Even after all this time, it really pains me. But everything happens for a reason. Around the time of the conflict with my publisher,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
a conflict of business models—an organization can either kill people and break things, or help people and make things. To do both well is impossible,” he says. The transitory nature of the US military presence also made it hard to create... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
accommodation to a host of conflicting interests, an arrangement that damaged society’s economic well-being. The agency theorists had a broad impact on corporate policy and, in particular, on a fundamental redefinition of the purpose of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
of familiarity, cultural gulfs and local differences often remain hidden. Amid these conflicting realities, however, HBS alumni report anecdotal evidence that a youthful and growing cosmopolitan business class is bringing these different... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the United States, this tension is symbolized by the proverbial conflicts between Wall Street and Main Street.” For HBS professors to be able to contribute to solving the global economic crisis, they must think beyond the system that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
he had with these doyens, in an easy-to-read, anecdotal form. Converting the Saints: A Study of Religious Rivalry in America by Charles Randall Paul (MBA 1972) Greg Kofford Books Inc. In this study of religious conflict in the US, the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
have lost consumers by fostering music that is less inspired and more generic. "Artists are not developed quarter by quarter," acknowledges Boberg. "There's an inherent conflict in trying to tend to the needs of both the artist and the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso