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01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

their jobs to offer to resign, and Dayton Hudson Corp. insists that outside directors resign if they change jobs. The General Motors Board of Directors Corporate Governance Guidelines assert that "individual... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles

dyeing, knitting, and weaving cotton and manufacturing garments and accessories. Every step is governed by Yang’s E-Culture—ethics, environment,... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2011
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Map Quest

explains his fascination with maps? “When you look back in history at decisions that shaped the world,” Stone said, “there were people sitting around tables in rooms looking at maps. They used maps to form governments View Details

Keywords: maps

01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy

for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

executive with 25 years of experience, Viana (PGL 4, 2001) was tired of implementing strategies focused on short-term profit. He had been looking for a small technology company to purchase and run on his own terms. Curiosity had brought... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

07 Feb 2017
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Shaping Singapore

didn’t take long, however, for Cheong to understand the challenges and opportunities afforded by urban planning’s broader scope, particularly in a land-constrained city-state like Singapore. “In architecture, you are only looking at a... View Details

22 Apr 2014
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Leadership is all about 'how you make a difference'

Henry M. Paulson, Jr. (MBA 1970), talks about his leadership as CEO of Goldman Sachs and as US Treasury Secretary. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Oct 1997
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Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

sector both domestically and abroad. "The complex web of factors that shape and govern communities in need, whether here in the United States or in the developing world,... View Details

04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook

co-workers acknowledging her struggle. After noting some of the other political and commercial opportunities potentially available to her—“ Walt Disney Co. CEO or California senator”—the magazine reports... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival

period, there was a very strong national economic strategy around using science to drive economic growth. We created the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, among others, and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2004
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Alumni Board Wraps Up Year

proposed enhancing the range of services provided. The Clubs and Associations Committee, chaired by Roslyn Payne (MBA ’70), focused on defining club best practices, key challenges, and View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

21 Oct 2020
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Cold Calculations

cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Books

power and shale gas are on the right side of the fight against climate change, and why markets have a better shot at winning the fight than governments do. Earnings Calls That... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Quantum Leap

internet today,” Ricotta observes. Given the promise of secure satellite-to-ground communications, the US government is among those that are eager to see this realized. Aliro has received grants from the US Air Force Research Laboratory... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

02 Apr 2020
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What Will U.S. Labor Protections Look Like After Coronavirus?

Keywords: Megan Tobias Neely

01 Jun 2020
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The Network Effect

process for participating in a clinical trial was very convoluted. There is a huge government database that is not consumer friendly.” Kapoor and a team of volunteers created a simple way for those... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

06 May 2008
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Small World? Read Nil about It

politically when its citizens don’t pay attention to what’s going on overseas, be it what their country does in their name, or be it by forces beyond their control. And consider the next generation: American... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information

01 Oct 2002
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Making a Difference

the Public Broadcasting Service, the White House Office of Management and Budget, and Teach For America. Fellows also did their part for organizations and View Details

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