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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
Beginning with Chile more than twenty years ago, Latin America has experienced a wrenching yet exciting transformation of its predominantly inward-looking, state-driven economies to a robust acceptance and practice of open-market... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Buy, Lie, and Sell High by D. Quinn Mills Prentice Hall Any investor or person involved in America's financial-services industry will be interested in Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
Photography by Robert Schoen The résumé of Roger Anthony (“Tony”) Sanchez reads like a laundry list of military superlatives: U.S. Naval Academy engineering major, water polo team captain, and battalion commander; Navy SEAL platoon... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
What's it like to be a woman in the "old-boy" construction business of the South? "It's a lot of fun," says Kathy L. Barco (23rd OPM), president of Barco-Duval Engineering, Inc., the Jacksonville, Florida, earth-moving company founded in 1959 by her parents, Charlie... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers
C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), is the only HBS alumnus among the eight candidates running in this year's election for the Harvard University Board of Overseers. Spangler, a prominent leader in both business and higher education,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
on display in Morgan Hall, titled "The Emergence of Modern American Business." The exhibit features large black-and-white photographs, colorful advertising cards, informative broadsides, and other memorabilia selected from the Baker... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
gave up. What are your post-HBS plans? I plan to stay in this sector my entire life. I’d like to use Catalyst Alliance as a means to attract more MBAs into social nterprise — I want to contribute to making it as appealing as the private sector as a career choice. —... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
funds have made an important contribution to both the democratization and the strengthening of the American economy," says HBS professor Jay O. Light, an expert on the financial services industry. View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
Named the 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1997, Charles O. Rossotti (MBA '64) heads the Internal Revenue Service, which has 102,000 employees, a $7.8 billion budget, and annual revenue collections... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
and in sync with the larger interests of the nation— Nancy Koehn Nancy Koehn: As a historian, I would note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
investors, falsified information, and pretended to create value when value hadn't really been created. If inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
here.” Professor Nancy Koehn opines, “What does it mean when the world’s leading power (and geopolitical playground cop) cannot govern itself?” The fall semester begins in a few weeks, with the new academic year always a time of renewal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
they apparently do not look solely to the wooing of ocean travelers for the large gains they expect to make in the future. —Edited by Garry Emmons Nancy F. Koehn View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
have made an important contribution to both the democratization and the strengthening of the American economy," says HBS professor Jay O. Light, an expert on the financial services industry. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
next project, in collaboration with Laura Nash of Harvard Divinity School, is a book on the role of institutional religion in helping businesspeople to integrate spirituality and work. by Nancy View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
give careful consideration to its strategic role as their companies move forward. "The dot companies have given us a peek into the future of emerging organization structures and new management approaches, he observes. "We need to overcome... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
transition process of passing responsibilities for SPI's primary operations to vice president and general manager Dean Urmston, a veteran of the seed industry who is based in Bakersfield, California. What motivates this compassionate man?... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
Since his appointment as executive director of Baker Library in 1996, Thomas J. Michalak has been closely involved in the ongoing effort to shepherd a venerable institution into the electronic business information age. Writer Nancy View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
herself, which is a very American thing to do. Bruce Llewellyn, an African-American entrepreneur of outstanding talent, also comes to mind. As a historian, my only advantage over other scholars in other disciplines is perspective. I have to wait until someone is no... View Details