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- 01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes
of internal and external factors have an impact on their pay, and that, in fact, today's CEO compensation packages are tied very closely to company performance.Lorsch began his study by looking at the proxy statements of 72 companies... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have settled back into the classroom... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
International Marketing Management course, where students are able to "eavesdrop" on customers' opinions of new products and hear, firsthand, top management's marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
It was a giddy time that presaged a new frontier, when a tinkering youth would become an international monopolist, and hundreds like him, eager for the quick riches that appeared inevitable, would start new businesses based on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
being too dogmatic about how you define your sweet spot as an investor; and (2) seek companies that seem extraordinary on some dimension, even if it is unusual or seems deficient in others. Rob Go (MBA 2007) NextView Ventures For the Birds Here’s what I wrote in my... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
30-minute credit test is based on research in psychometrics conducted at Harvard’s Center for International Development to help lenders understand both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. The questions on the test seek not... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
share amounting to $39 million a year. Television, of course, has been great for fans, giving them access to innumerable games that they otherwise would not see. (In recent years, it has also made possible the marketing and expansion of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
almost 9,000 miles of travel. "I think the logistical challenge that we have today in Brazil is probably bigger than any other country has seen." For Sender, the event has forced a complete rethink of operations at TAM, which flies to 42 domestic and 19 View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
States and from international markets and skyrocketing production costs pose huge challenges to the movie industry. Film- production costs alone, Vogel pointed out, have risen 9.5 percent annually since... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
so that it was sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Reunion Snapshots
Erik Sorensen (22nd OPM) Currently the managing director of Club Sultan in Marbella, Spain, an exclusive European holiday ownership club, Erik Sorensen specializes in marketing luxurious vacation opportunities. "My business is about... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he and cofounder Colin McElwee... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
to this unusual business challenge, however, it's Bothwick. "Most of my career since leaving HBS has focused on the 'people' aspect of business," she explains. Bothwick spent eighteen years at International Paper Company, where she worked... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
competencies to devise a unique approach to resource and business management," says Austin. Austin also found that leadership is frequently of paramount importance in the creation and development of cross-sector alliances. Strategic unions "need champions, or View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
how companies use innovative business models to achieve transformational growth by fulfilling customer needs in current markets; serving new customers and creating new markets; and responding to shifts in market demand, government policy,... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
public offering. He sold COMPS InfoSystems six weeks before the market started to crash in March 2000. After taking a couple of years off to relax and regroup, Crane got a job offer to become CEO of Opportunity International, the world’s... View Details