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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
altruistic reasons for serving, many also reported that such participation allowed them to practice business skills and make professional contacts not always possible through their everyday duties. "One focus group of top-level managers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 30 Jul 2010
- News
Notes from a Hammock
whelps like rock stars” and fail “to scrutinize company boards with the same merciless zeal” that reporters apply to politicians. Notably, Mikael rails against bankers “who blow millions on foolhardy speculations.” Sound familiar? It got... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
a survey of US health-care executives conducted for the forum, Huckman reported that 55 percent of respondents believed that, considering quality and cost in combination, America is losing ground relative to other nations. But problems... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
an international corporation by taking the best ideas from everywhere it has a presence and implementing them worldwide throughout its entire system.” Rohit Deshpandé also sees local context as integral to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
A McDonald’s employee takes part in a March protest calling for unionization and higher minimum wages for fast-food workers. (© David Eulitt/TNS/ZUMA Wire) In May, thousands of McDonald’s employees swarmed the company’s Oak Brook, Illinois, headquarters to let their... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer experience, which began in the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
and generosity and service. Our company was a mission-oriented company. We were focused on enabling access to finance to individuals across the world, so that they could live out their dreams and start businesses. Being that close into a place where giving is such an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
accounting from the University of Chicago. He’ll tap his interests in corporate accountability and disclosure to help him teach the first-year required course Financial Reporting and Control. Assistant... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
LSP core team. Explains Pisano, “The purpose of this initiative is to create some mechanisms for collaboration and integration across disciplines and among faculty, as well as to connect with outside constituencies.” In this way, the LSP,... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
Corporation (IFC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Her report, Financing High-Growth Firms, the Role of Angel Investors, written for and published by the OECD in 2011, has attracted interest from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
any other bank in Grand Rapids. It was a niche bank with only one office and no tellers; instead, it had client service officers who would call customers by their name. The other unique thing about Grand Bank was corporate tithing. Ten... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
Channel each day. And its weather.com site draws one of the largest audiences on the Web. The network is so popular that it opted not to hang its corporate logo on its Atlanta headquarters for fear of being overrun by tourists. But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
set itself apart from the pack with uncompromising integrity and accuracy, especially in the rating of structured finance products such as asset-backed securities. Although Becker never spoke with Kroll directly while writing the case,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing women to the boardroom table
placed, none were CEOs; all had expertise that exactly matched the client’s specifications: only three reported to a CEO, two had previous corporate board experience, one was known to someone on the board,... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
University's School of Theology. He earned his M.Div. degree last year and this month begins a new career as assistant rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Belmont, Massachusetts. Messenger plans to design a multifaith corporate... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) to manufacture battery systems for the Chinese market presents its own questions, Vietor notes. For one, the joint venture is considered a foreign subsidiary, so A123 can only View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
and being or a sense of purpose and identity. Ever since the seminal Carnegie and Ford reports in 1959, MBA curricula have emphasized knowledge and analytics, grounded in economics, statistics, applied mathematics, and social psychology.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
Firms and Flexibility As job security and long-term relationships between corporations and their white-collar workers become relics of the past, what will link these two parties in the future? According to HBS assistant professor Jeffrey... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has been leading the transformation of Nigeria's capital markets, improving their integrity and regulatory framework, since becoming director-general of the country's Security and Exchange Commission in 2010.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details