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- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
billion in revenues. The directors of professionally sponsored buyouts typically have comparable personal wealth at risk. These three innovations can lead to a more arm’s-length relationship between directors and the CEO. The lack of such... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
who can’t do it are at a real disadvantage, especially if they’re poor. We have to decide whether that’s an inequity that we as a society should accept. You’ve written about the business of stem cells, which is also emotion-driven to a great extent. Can you View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Making History, Starting Over
“To bring lasting peace to the area, you have to strengthen the private sector, and the best place to start is the banks,” he explains. Cohen compares social investment today to a small but building wave, much like venture capital three... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
can access an HBS database compiled by the authors through the alumni Web page at http://www.alumni.hbs.edu, where they may also compare their scores to HBS norms. The BCII diskette provided with the book performs all scoring operations... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 25 Aug 2015
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Sunset in the East?
relatives and partners, underground banks, informal networks) that collectively do not encourage excessive risk. To put it another way, the consumer, compared to debt-ridden state-owned enterprises or local governments, is the most sober... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
wherever you go.” Fellowships at a Glance Since the launch of the HBS campaign, more than 115 new fellowship funds have been established. In 2004–05, the School will award close to $12 million infellowship aid, compared with about $7... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
and eighth graders gang-tackled me. Every day after that, I was kicked, punched, spit on, or pinched, due solely to the color of my skin. Lying in the dirt and grease under a pickup truck was serenity compared to the cruel reality outside... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
president of Disney's global television and telecommunications businesses. Noting that compared with his generation, today's MBA students have a better sense of balance when juggling work, family, and community service, Hightower counsels... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
and, of course, the doors opened by an MBA from a prestigious northeastern business school, it has been a great ride. When I compare myself to my mother, we both fulfilled very different demographic norms. She had four children in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings; they also explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level dynamics of entry and exit, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
word for it: Numerous sources over the past several years have documented the actual costs of the new generation of nuclear plants, including testimony to regulators by many of the utilities proposing to build them. According to these sources, nuclear power will cost... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
will pay for a new roof. Community Activity Reade is well aware, however, that her financial situation cannot be compared with those in her community. Her biggest embarrassment these days, she says, is the new fence she had built at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
that were presented and discussed at the colloquium. Globalization’s complexities and nuances, compared with twenty years ago, were analyzed and debated with a rigor and enthusiasm that doubtless would have pleased Ted Levitt immensely.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Speak English, Please!
a universal experience of status diminution when people compare their native language to this new language,” Neeley remarks. “So no matter how fluent some people are in English, they believe they’ll never be as sophisticated, influential,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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Making a Difference
manager at Procter & Gamble, Haacker loves the outdoors. His goal at Denali was to explore a potential long-term career in environmental conservation and to get a sense of how nonprofits and government agencies work. “Everybody tells you that working in private... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
efficiency, it’s true that in many areas, private is more efficient. But not in health care. Compare Medicare administrative costs to those of private insurers. Medicare Advantage has average costs 15 percent higher than traditional... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm.” Both the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
savings and loans. I compare this disaster to a Greek epic, in which RCA is lured away from its core capabilities by "Sirens" consisting of the business press, the academy, and Wall Street, for whom conglomerates were then the business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara
temporarily.” Incredibly, McNamara says that the conventional wisdom about the domino theory and the question of whether U.S. troops could ever in fact prevent the loss of South Vietnam “were never debated at the government’s highest levels.” In the case of Iraq, he... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons