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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Jacobson’s vision. “Joe managed people by saying, ‘I don’t think you can do X, Y, and Z,’ which makes a 19- or 20-year-old want to immediately prove him wrong,” Wilcox remarks. Joined by the steadying presence of longtime publishing View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
tight coupling of the "real" market (business) with the "expectations" market (the stock market). Using the analogy of the NFL's strict separation of actual games from betting, he shows how to reverse this situation, including restructuring View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
it. We would go to executive board rooms—we were on one side of the table and, on the other side, it was older men with gray hair. That whole scene was something they have never experienced before. So we realized, ‘Oh, wow, this is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
gatekeepers, and financial institutions they pay to grow their investments. Public outrage over scandals or excessive executive compensation is ephemeral. It must be channeled to demand a transformation in... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
money and take loans out of a common fund and pay it back with interest. For these women who have nothing, this was the first time it was implemented successfully,” she says. Ruhr returned to her native Oregon for family reasons in 2010.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
implement strategy. In a retail business, no matter what you decide in the office, if the people out in the stores don't execute it, your business isn't going to be worth a darn, because they're the ones who deal with your customers. So... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
challenges,” he explains. A former supermarket industry CEO, Alvarez shares his passion for exploring all aspects of the food industry—from farm to port to table—with participants in the Agribusiness Seminar. The Executive Education... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
and negotiate deals. If a tender or bid goes through and both parties sign a contract and deliver the material, they pay Open Mineral a fee per ton of raw material. Chernilovskiy, who is the company’s COO, and Eykher, who is CEO, say that... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
model we're looking to replicate." Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, faculty chair of the event, expressed the hope that the School's activities in sub-Saharan Africa, such as the conference, new Executive Education initiatives, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
observes Steve Nelson (MBA ’88), executive director of the MBA Program. “In that time, Spangler has become so much a part of the fabric of the HBS community. We had 32 buildings spread across a 40-acre campus, but no central space for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bertini (DBA 2006) and Oded Koenigsberg The MIT Press Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
People should think, "What are the to-dos, and who's going to do them?" Senior executives tend to think that they can accomplish this by just telling people what to do. But there's a big difference between assigning a task to be completed... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
charitable endeavors, pro bono consulting, and projects at her children's school, in addition to two intervals when she worked part-time for pay. "As a full-time parent, you're way too busy to think that way." Amy Cahners Hunter (MBA '81) had worked as a retail View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
borrowers with more guidance when it comes to managing family finances? No one would argue against better consumer education and more financial literacy for Americans, in general. But the system itself caused many of these problems. We were View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Bridges (a capstone at the end of the two years), and several entirely new Executive Education courses. In our doctoral programs, we launched PRIMO, a summer program that connects undergraduates with our faculty to learn about management... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
previous year. Same-store sales also had their first annual decline in 30 years. For the US market, the reported 1.7 percent drop in same-store sales marked the fifth consecutive quarter of declines. In an earnings call with investors, CEO Don Thompson and other View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers for HPE compared the lives of two people with autism living on their own—one in Dandelion, one not. The person not in the program collects $16,838 a year in government welfare benefits, while the one in Dandelion earns $55,000... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
reluctantly admits inspired the New York Times to dub her “Hazel,” Moore asked employees to clean out their offices and storerooms for a flea market where all employees could pay $10 to fill up a shopping bag with various items. “There... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
investment of the right kind, in the right way, it would produce outstanding results, favorable publicity, and competitive advantage.” America is involved in several projects, including studying the progress of African-American managers and View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
everything was being paid for in cash, the fact that you had all these banks popping up on Brickell Avenue, which is known as kind of the Wall Street of Miami, that were just there to take dirty money. You would pay people before money... View Details