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- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
The word “globalization” is bandied about so often, it has taken on a life of its own. Opinions differ as to whether it’s good, bad, or something in between. Yet everyone seems to agree that globalization has made the world smaller and its people more closely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment The Earth At Night, 2009: Cities may occupy just 2 percent of the planet’s landmass but they hold half the world’s people and produce much of its carbon emissions. Image by NASA/Corbis Issue Focus The Business and Environment... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
As the global economy grows ever more competitive, American manufacturing is at a critical juncture. The country has been surrendering jobs, production capacity, and know-how to other countries at an alarming rate. The answers to this dilemma aren’t as obvious as they... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
ATTRACTING INVESTORS like moths to a flame is Firefly Network, Inc. (www.firefly.com), a privately held firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that strives to make the Internet more consumer-friendly. Firefly CEO and co-founder Nicholas Grouf explains that the company's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable housing - such as Boston's Orchard... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt (1983) They were bold, even breathtaking words at the time. Two decades later, their echoes are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Professors Lorsch, Palepu, Kanter, Healy, Koehn, and Hall. Spangler Center, Fall 2002. Photography by Webb Chappell. With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
A few weeks ago, HBS threw a party for some neighbors — the 12-0 Brighton High School Division 4 Super Bowl football champions. Most everything about HBS is high profile, but the School also does generous, thoughtful things that a lot of people never hear about. This... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
As any music industry executive will tell you, rock-and-roll drives the business. And as any ten-year-old with a boom box knows, the guitar rules rock. So when it comes to pop music's signature instrument, even though he may lack flashy moves and a marquee-friendly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
For more than twenty years, Terry Stewart's work has placed him at the middle of some of the world's most contentious border disputes - the trade and legal battles that erupt when countries engage in practices such as dumping or restricting access to their internal... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken together with HBS and several other academic institutions, was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87)
For fans and management alike, with so much of professional sports now indistinguishable from other high-powered enterprises, where can one turn for an affordable and quality sports experience? Ask Frank Burke (MBA '87), owner of the Chattanooga Lookouts Double-A minor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action more urgent than ever. This is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
The son of a small-town banker, Charlie Williams grew up in rural West Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University, and taught for more than 39 years at HBS. The School’s much-revered George Gund Professor of Commercial Banking, Emeritus, he saw 27 former students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Joe Badaracco
A graduate of St. Louis University and a Rhodes Scholar, Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., had never considered attending HBS. Then he spent a couple of years in the business world, at Price Waterhouse. “I became much more interested in business, and that got me interested in... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
It’s been a grim couple of weeks out there. Personally, I’ve had more déjà vu than I’ve seen in a long time, as Yogi Berra might have said, especially after losing a string of tough doubleheaders. My own sobering twin bill has consisted of revisiting, in recent days,... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
The National Research Council, an arm of the U.S National Academy of Sciences, recently added its voice to a growing chorus of calls for immediate action to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. As it happens, the announcement came on the heels of a visit to the School... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the word seems to subvert and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
wars. Overall, the picture looks good. However, we must also be aware that the political response to issues such as wealth disparity, the environment, security, and rule of law have the capacity to undermine capitalism and thus undermine this progress. — View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
much as possible, and for him I think the Vendée Globe is a question of doing it right and making it to the finish.” Doing it right and finishing the job, no matter what the adversity. That’s Rich Wilson. The Vendée-obsessed French public will tell you he’s a great... View Details