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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
some $130 million each to join the major-league fraternity. Since these teams will largely consist of players existing clubs deemed expendable, backers can have few illusions that their investment will be rewarded - on the field or at the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
indefinite deferral under the current system. This proposal would raise revenues from corporate activities in jurisdictions with no or low taxes, while encouraging American corporations to repatriate their foreign profits at reasonable rates. The money can then be... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
same department in my new dealership. He did, until he retired for the second time. The great lesson learned for me was, anyone can go fire someone. It takes more effort, but the rewards are so much greater, to solve the problem that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Ogden, who serves as co-managing director with Leiman. “Whenever we came to a decision point during the start-up phase we would joke with each other, ‘They’re at the end of the A case, they’re looking at each other in despair, what do they do now?’ It was very View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
series. —Mike Graffeo (MBA 2006) This is not a plant, but The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter. It explains how and why our system rewards... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
have built a community of alumni interested in learning more and have gotten a much clearer sense of how they think about climate change and what it means to them in their professional roles,” explains Nash. “It’s incredibly rewarding to... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
case-method teaching, field-based research, and case writing. What challenges and rewards do you foresee for the LARC? Latin America is a vast region, and its countries are quite different, but I think our presence will be welcomed by... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Community Reaches Out
sites, participants took part in myriad projects that included painting at Allston's Gardner Elementary School and landscaping at Cambridge's Center for Sustainable Building. Volunteer Catriona Fallon (HBS '01) worked at Boston Senior Home Care. "It was both View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
continues to build in teaching lessons here and there, so I’m improving, but I’ve still got some ground to make up.” What do you find most challenging about the work? What do you find most rewarding? MGA: “The most rewarding part of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
with shareholders, rewarded short–term “earnings management” and beautified balance sheets. These tactics were facilitated by cooperative accountants who didn’t want to risk losing the profitable consulting business of the companies they... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
the MBA Program "with the hope of obtaining the same goals, satisfactions, and rewards as the men." A 1966 article by Judith S. Chadwick (MBA '65) addressed some of the difficulties those first women students encountered, including... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
extremely rewarding — and a big responsibility." But Slavin, who also teaches a course in health-care management at Harvard Medical School, devotes the great majority of his time at the MGPO to administrative matters. Now in his second... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
"It has been very rewarding doing this work. These companies have been through so much horror, and then they have to figure out how to start up all over again. They really appreciate even the littlest things we do for them. It's inspired... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
graduates have shown increasing interest in carving out careers in these areas, while other alumni often look to make contributions following rewarding private-sector careers. Innovative Leadership One such individual is Donald P. Nielsen... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
school, always take the job that looks like it will be the most enjoyable. If it pays the most, you’re lucky. If it doesn’t, take it anyway. I took a severe pay cut to take each of the two best jobs I’ve ever had, and they both turned out to be exceptionally View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Owusu-Kesse says, “I can’t tell you how rewarding it is to take a bunch of kids from Harlem to their first Knicks or Yankees game and watch their faces light up. For me, my job isn’t about charity. It’s about bringing to the world the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
time, examiners were rewarded for issuing more patents, since that brought in more money. The quality of examiners’ work decreased accordingly. This change, combined with the creation of the CAFC, put sand in the system. Patents became... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
market rarely rewarded his efforts, and GE struggled. In Hot Seat, Immelt offers an introspection of his tenure. The most crucial component of leadership, he writes, is the willingness to make decisions. But knowing what to do is a... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
manager received an A; 80–90 percent, a B; 70–80, a C; and so on. This gave managers and their teams a goal, and it allowed headquarters to monetarily reward teams with higher execution rates, secure in the knowledge that the building... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
rewarding contributions that benefit society; holding government leaders to high standards of conduct; engaging with the world in ways that maximize opportunities for the many; and increasing opportunities for civilian national service.... View Details