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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
capitalism remains a major challenge. “When you don’t have the marketplace slapping you in the face, telling you your product is no good, you can really get confused,” Gates acknowledged. In health care, the foundation simply looks at the... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
The Power of Three
Perhaps it was because they had worked together at Goldman Sachs before business school, or because two of them had been roommates at HBS. But whatever held them together remained in force when Anne Dias Griffin, Julie Frist, and Teresa Teague formed the View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steel Tax
messier. Countries like Russia, Korea, Brazil, and Japan are major producers of steel. They are going to retaliate, and the United States is a major exporter to those countries,” she said, adding that free... View Details
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Sid Shenai
and being accepted to Harvard Law School, Sid deferred his admission to spend a year with McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant. There, he had his second major insight. "I was brought in to work on complex mathematical... View Details
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Sparsh Bhargava
In his junior year as a chemical-engineering major at Cornell, Sparsh Bhargava got an internship with Dow Corning in Carrollton, Kentucky, population 3,846. And, by virtue of his presence, "increased the Asian population by... View Details
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Kira Epler
For Kira Epler, attending HBS meant a dramatic shift in scale. "My graduating class of chemistry majors was smaller than a HBS section," she says. The fourth generation in her family to graduate from Kansas State University,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2018
- News
Bringing the Background into Focus
Édouard Manet, “La négresse (Portrait of Laure),” 1863. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turino Édouard Manet, “La négresse (Portrait of Laure),” 1863. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turino Denise Murrell (MBA 1980) spent the View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
Manufacture City, a major production site for Taiwan-based Quanta Computer; Alibaba, the internet business giant, located in Hangzhou; and Wanxiang, the automobile components firm set to debut an electric car in the United States.... View Details
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American City Business Journals | Baker Library
American City Business Journals Local business news and digital editions from major U.S. cities. Read More Features electronic versions of the Book of Lists for many cities, including ranked lists of companies. Chicago, NY, Los Angeles,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
to spot potentially underpriced stocks, and major stock indexes and institutional investors lean on the metric as well. Yet, in an examination of thousands of stocks over a period of nearly 40 years, Wang and colleagues find that the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
Those rituals need not be elaborate or public; they just need to be deliberate. In the course of their research, Norton and Gino asked subjects to recall rituals they had performed after suffering a loss. They were surprised to discover that the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
relative to that of other corporate leaders. No stock option package can provide motivation, however, if it isn't understood. Given the complexity of these arrangements, this is often a problem, even among those who serve as chief executives of View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
that aid in preserving personal privacy is growing rapidly. Encryption may even become the next major privacy issue as governments step in to attempt to limit its use on the grounds that it makes it more difficult to track and observe... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
paper. The Research The researchers studied data from OutsourceCo (a pseudonym), a major provider of outsourced teleradiology services in the United States, with more than 1,400 client sites, mainly hospitals and radiology group... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
complicated high-risk operations. In discussing the March earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan (a "Black Swan" event, as risk managers call any surprise event that has a major impact and is rationalized by hindsight), Mikes sees a crucial... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested in a first round of funding to connect major cities. Should he invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may have lower financial returns but greater social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
should weigh the decision to change jobs carefully, because their major value is in the company they currently work for and the teammates they work with. If they do change jobs, they should make sure that the new employer is invested in... View Details
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
majority of activism targets—firms that do not end up being acquired—earn average abnormal returns that are not statistically distinguishable from zero. This result applies to both announcement returns, as well as to the long-term returns... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
each chain." Petsch agreed. "At Sears, we have an increasing number of proprietary brands," Petsch said. Overton said the mergers will have a major effect on the suppliers of department stores' real estate—the malls. JC... View Details