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Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog
influencer controversy to Boeing’s horrific crashes and endless travails, trust breaches cost companies millions in lost revenues, spur dramatic declines in investor confidence and shareholder value, upend customer reliance, and unnerve... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
Benetton Brain Trust: After learning at the knee of his father, Luciano, Alessandro is taking the family business forward. Working for his family’s company, whose colorful sportswear and controversial advertising made it a brand of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
turnarounds, Gilson uses intensively researched case studies of thirteen corporations that tackled some of the most controversial and innovative restructuring efforts of the last decade. Each case reveals the multitude of decisions that... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
A personal mission to serve veterans
cemeteries in 2010. Last year’s controversy at Veterans Affairs compelled her to return to public service full time. “My younger brother, Kenneth, is an infantry officer in the marines and our future customer. Everyone on active duty is a... View Details
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Brighton Mudzingwa
to be part of a sustainable economic system." But, Brighton says, "By the time I left the country in 2003, it was effectively unraveling. Agriculture was the backbone of our country. But a controversial land-distribution... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
neighborhood was a product of Detroit’s controversial 1960s urban renewal efforts. “But the way people live today, they want to be close to the action. They want to be close to their jobs. They want to ride their bikes; they want to take... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot-Mom
of Mrs. Mom. She has written a self-help book based on her own transitional experience called Chapters: Create a Life of Exhilaration and Accomplishment in the Face of Change. Olson is well aware that her embrace of home and hearth may seem View Details
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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog
people made and the paths they followed to rise to positions of prominence, You enjoy engaging in a spirited discussion about controversial topics, You want to be challenged to think about your own life and the career and the personal... View Details
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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
conversation. In this course, you will NOT: Work on public speaking (this course is about human-to-human dialogue, not oration/monologue/public speaking). Learn surprising, outlandish, or controversial strategies (this course focuses on... View Details
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Hann Yew
organizing events, like Darwin's 200th birthday celebration, which intended to connect aspiring scientists. In response to Larry Summers' controversial comments about women in science, Hann wrote skits and participated in improv workshops... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
the Honeywell/GE merger for the Boston Consulting Group. Rather, she was assigned a client her bosses thought was more befitting a "lady": Mrs. Smith's Pie Company. Even that was a controversial assignment, her superiors fretted, because... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
leadership, the paper provided readers with courageous and award-winning editorial coverage of controversial issues such as the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers. To succeed, not only did Graham have to acquire managerial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
to advertising can actually decrease the probability of a consumer choosing that product. This boosts the case for precision target marketing, which, though often controversial for perceived breaches of privacy, could be beneficial to... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
Silicon Valley’s quintessential “garage to riches” enterprise. Perhaps her biggest move has been HP’s 2002 merger with Compaq, the largest such marriage in high-tech history. Acknowledging the nay-saying and controversy that accompanied... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
asking that question through research on the controversial issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), agricultural products that are genetically altered to increase yield, incorporate pesticide properties, or exhibit other beneficial... View Details
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Matt Oppenheimer
During the winter break, Matt participated in the East Africa trek with about forty HBS colleagues. Their trip to Kenya, just after the controversial elections, had special resonance. "It gave me a new perspective on how crises are... View Details
- 18 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 18, 2006
the way in which the conflicts of interest between owners and managers of firms are managed by the key intermediary institution of the board of directors. There has been increasing controversy over whether directors are playing the role... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
Junge, looks at both sides of the controversial assisted-suicide debate and offers an unguarded glimpse into Gardner’s daily circumstances of living with the increasing debilitation of Parkinson’s. When he talks to the camera, his speech... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they... View Details