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- 01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
It is estimated that one billion people around the world need vision correction but don't have glasses because they are too expensive or simply unavailable. The resulting losses in productivity and self-sufficiency may reach as much as... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
Sustaining peak performance over not just years but decades may be the single most difficult challenge for executives, which makes Sir Alex Ferguson's 26-year run as manager of England's legendary Manchester United soccer club so... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
surprise: Human resources. We underestimated how important it is to be extremely aggressive about both bringing in super-talented people and getting rid of people who bring the organization down. What I’d... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division Series in a humiliating three straight games. Within a matter of weeks, Sox general manager Theo Epstein had launched one of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
successful firm until the 1930s. Revson wouldn't have stood out as someone who was bound for success. Noyce, however, showed extraordinary intelligence at an early age, and Walton had a natural ability to motivate. Each of these people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
graduate of Harvard Law School and a former consultant in management and negotiation strategy, Price says that HBS is interested in developing "technologically appropriate" approaches that will reach an optimum number of View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Inciting Wonder
Asked by the Chicago Sun-Times (November 25, 2008) about how she conceived of her new role and her goals in it, Rogers replied, “Having people feel comfortable, and having people be able, in the warmth of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is the difficulty some people have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
recommends alternatives that can result in stronger companies in the long run and reduce the damage layoffs do to workers and communities. “Typical layoffs harm employees, communities, and companies,” Sucher says. Mass layoffs were uncommon prior to the late 1970s,... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see... View Details
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- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
in the 1960s, with research done here in Boston. Stanley Milgram, the renowned social psychologist, randomly chose people from phone books out of Kansas and Nebraska and asked them to forward a letter to a friend of his in Boston through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
that described why competition in health care had failed. Some health-care experts, he feared, would take offense at any critique written by mere management professors. To the surprise of Porter and coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
billion dollars in revenues and almost 6,000 people providing aid and economic opportunity in some of the toughest environments around the world. On top of these baseline operations, which have been expanding since its founding in 1979,... View Details
- 17 May 2017
- News
Nisa Godrej Takes Over
relented and gave his daughter free rein. Friends and colleagues describe the Agrovet episode as the opening act in Nisa's journey at Godrej, her almost missionary zeal to bring a "performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
From A to Z
people are brash, for the most part. They don’t sugarcoat because they don’t know how to!” Anastasia Zotova Hometown: Saint Petersburg, Russia Education: M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science; diploma, Economics, Saint... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
without water and sanitation by 2015. The essential element is leadership from the public sector.” Doug Brown agrees. “Water issues are addressable, but they require a commitment of resources and capital. That people drink water... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
between 20 and 30 percent of the headcount is not optimized for utilization,” Berendt says. “About 200,000 people are sitting idle. We want to take this wealth of talent and connect it to Fortune 5000 companies.” These talent-as-a-service... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
are worth pursuing. When most people hear a new idea, it’s human nature to see its flaws, so during the brainstorm processing, no criticism should be allowed. I know of a manager who brings along a squirt... View Details
- 23 Jul 2016
- News
The Art of Persuasion
Indian traveler’s taste had shifted from hard to soft luggage. It was the perfect time to expand the company’s offerings and shift its strategic outlook. “When you want to take a group of people with you in a new direction, authority is... View Details