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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
shareholders — compared with 8-plus percent for its customers. It is worth adding that this shareholder surplus would be completely wiped out if Wal-Mart’s million-plus employees were to receive a $2-per-hour pay increase, modest though... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Research: Past, Present, and Future by Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy (Stanford Economics and Finance) Professors Groysberg and Healy discuss the analysts who do equities research and demonstrate how their roles have evolved, what drives their performance, and how... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
founder that I ever felt there was a big difference between men and women. I was asked for more due diligence, for more numbers, and for so much more research on competitors.” Saigal, whose brother launched his own company, was able to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
issue? A Catalyst survey of over 4,100 full-time employed men and women who graduated from 26 top MBA programs worldwide (12 in the United States) from 1996 to 2007 showed that the women just out of business school started in lower-level positions as View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
Batten’s generosity will enable us to continue the tradition of creating a seamless experience from learning to living.” Presently, Harvard University owns 240 acres of land in Allston, compared with the 215 in Cambridge. “As Allston... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
will have a newfound freedom to experiment with course design. Moon compared the new approach to a rule change in sports. “A change in the rules may not sound like much, but over time it can have a major impact on how the game is played,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
costs. But that doesn't mean Southwest isn't investing in itself. The company's willingness to spend time and money on people and equipment is evident in its low rate of employee turnover; the high ratio of supervisors to front-line employees (1:10, View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
1.5 degrees Celsius. Which, you might remember from Episode 1, is the amount of global temperature rise, compared to pre-industrial times, after which scientists say serious climate catastrophes are likely. So, yes, progress is positive.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
hectic private lives. In the upper ranks, Mack notes that typical managers in other restaurants work seventy to eighty hours each week, inspiring the grim phrase “burn 'em and turn 'em.” By offering managers a forty-hour week at View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
into small businesses, where fraud is a particular problem, she says, because, compared to larger firms, “there aren’t as many controls.” She often found it helpful to go undercover as, say, a new accounting clerk, a bookkeeper, an office... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
those seven people. It’s clear that the engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in leadership, but they’ve made great... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
single-payer health systems and the 37-page Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited banks from making risky investments. Deffarges compares that to the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank legislation, which “added immense complexity” to the law. “I was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
emphasis on function reflected conference chair Professor Kenneth A. Froot's decision to bring a different message to the gathering. "With a functional approach, you do less comparison of the institutions for corporate governance and instead View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
unfair to people who are just as into it, but based on how some of those communities went, I never really self-identified. So honestly I've never gone to a meet up, never sat down with another person to talk about this, never really View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
value of “likes.” The evidence often cited to support that is to look at people who have liked Starbucks, for example, compared with people who have not. The assumption is that people who have liked Starbucks spend more money there. The... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
count up my profits every day, and there’s always cash in the cigar box.” The owner’s loan application was attached to the case as Exhibit 1. Some other financial data showed what rents cost for comparable shop fronts and typical hourly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
they are. Their names appear on the generic, straight-to-the-wastebasket proxy forms that shareholders receive. But despite recent improvements that have increased shareholders’ voices in governance, a levelheaded observer like former SEC chairman William Donaldson... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
approach to evaluating job candidates is virtually bias-free when compared with traditional methods: Men and women perform almost identically on the game-based assessments, with only minute variations occurring across racial and ethnic... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
who were catapulted onto the global stage by the fight against men who bought and sold women.” What was different about writing Daughters as compared to your two earlier books? Maybe I’ll start with what they have in common: The... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
the region, compared with about 20 percent in Mercosur, the South American trade group. Not only have politics stood in the way of gains from collaboration between Israeli and Arab firms, but cooperation even among Arab companies has been... View Details