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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
companies are springing to life up and down the virtual lanes of the Information Superhighway. As the use of color and moving pictures becomes routine, says Sahlman, Internet "stores" may well be able to give customers an experience that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of the wonders that surround each of us is coupled with Flatt’s candid, empowering reflections on existence and his illness. The CMO’s Social Media Handbook by Peter Friedman (MBA 1983) (LiveWorld) Thirty years of experience informs this... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
book titled Ironclaw (the radio call sign of his carrier squadron). He completed the nonfiction account in 1995 during the last year of a final tour of duty in Washington, D.C., that included positions with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
authentic interests might be. Flint: It sounds like there’s a return on investment here for the college education that could be taken into account in this decision. Falik: I think that the most compelling reason that every young person... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
government officials are transparent. “Public officials have got to be accountable to taxpayers when it comes to budget decisions, contracts,” Cognetti continued. “Officials must be able to show their work. That’s what we all learned in... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
basic accounting that is coming in handy at the moment. She points out that, in addition to handling advance payments, dealing with the challenges of raising capital, scouting locations, and building clientele will all draw from her CORe... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Patrick Doyle (HBS '03), a former rector and adjunct professor of business ethics at Notre Dame. With heightened campus security in place, MBA and Executive Education classes resumed on September 12, but in the days that followed, the focus of formal and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their own. The state subsidizes residents who have incomes that meet or somewhat exceed federal poverty guidelines. An independent public authority, known informally as the Health Connector, helps individuals and small businesses choose... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
such as corporate governance, the relationship between values and leadership, corporate accountability and the challenges of financial disclosure, executive compensation, and the role of intermediaries in capital markets. Through our... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
registrar to track the movement and catalogue the provenance of the work. “We’re self-taught and, though we don’t use advisors, we are not unadvised. I have a network that informs every collecting decision I make,” she says. “I keep my... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
and geopolitical change and uncertainty; compete on a global scale; and operate in a socially responsible and accountable manner. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth by Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, and F. Warren... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
is to improve quality,” he said, “because better health is cheaper than bad health.” This new model, he noted, takes into account obstacles to care that are present in developing countries, such as poor transportation, and also harnesses... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
51 years later? First, my years in the Navy were anything but a dead end. I supervised 70 sailors, providing accounting and logistic services to a scout submarine squadron. My boss, commander, and later a Rear Admiral, Ted Walker, was one... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
accounting books and doing things that hurt a lot of people at the end of the day. On a personal level, I lost two children. My wife was expecting triplets. Happiness comes within. It doesn't matter what happens to you, the choices you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression, has yet to run its course. It’s no accident that all these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
usually expressed as reparations for slavery,” he says. “That’s because it also includes an accounting for the transfer of income and wealth from African Americans to whites, as a class, that took place during Jim Crow segregation, from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
accounting developments, as well as techniques for improving group process — like a Six Sigma Black Belt for directors. A fee of one one-hundredth of one cent per share on the current volume of the U.S. stock exchanges would yield about... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
who don't know, it's a kind of speaker phone and he had me on speaker phone with John Georges. And Joe was an accountant by training, so he had one of those little ad subtract, multiply, and divide, calculators. This was long before HP... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
will be—because they are less rooted in the fundamental value of the corporations whose shares are being traded. Sure, some volatility is good because it gives people a reason to trade, thus keeping markets liquid. But too much volatility can kill liquidity.... View Details