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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
whiffed management assignment, an unceremonious firing, or a failed marriage. Whatever the circumstances, one point becomes clear: The only real failure is not learning from one. Catch those stones While I have had “whoopsies” at jobs as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
range of metrics, including their overall returns on sales and investment capital. But knowing all this didn't guarantee investors would be interested in their fund. To find that out, Dodi and Dorsen scheduled a roundtable discussion at... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the service. But that’s not going to happen because the largest investors in bonds — banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds — aren’t willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
you laugh at. And if you can do that, I guarantee you'll have a great life. Hi, my name is Joseph Meyer. Section E, 2007. My wife and I have four kids. One of things that I've thought about a lot when it comes to happiness is the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
and asked what they were.The driver proudly identified the place as Harvard Business School. He said that the best and brightest young men came there from all over the world to study business.He commented that HBS guaranteed every... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of William & Mary, then a View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“We simply can’t call it capitalism if the biggest financial institutions enjoy a guarantee from the taxpayer that if they go bust, or risk going bust, they’ll be bailed out. That has to change.” — Professor Niall Ferguson, responding to... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
a B2B company that supplied bulk shea butter to brands and distributors. Akuete initially started down a different career path, having taken a job at JPMorgan Chase after business school. But when her mother became ill in 2015, Akuete... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
marketing group, hammering out goals and determining resources, work assignments, measures of success, and even rewards and recognition for a job well done. "It is the only method that works if you want to move in parallel paths and not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
the initial workflow issues have been resolved. On-site finish work turned out to be a major problem. It’s the general contractor’s job to hook up the utilities and finish interior details once Greentech assembles its modular structures.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
important for company leaders to see themselves as facilitators of progress, as being there to serve the people who are in the trenches. If they do a good job of planning and organizing projects, and keeping in touch with how things are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
is perfor-mance-based and guarantees the reimbursement of our expenditures and cost of capital as long as these are prudent and efficient. The model requires us to accelerate and even advance our capital investments, roll out the network... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
mortgage, there were only five-year mortgages. Therefore mortgages were only for the wealthy. And so the federal government said we want to create a middle class so they went to the banks and they said if you give a mortgage and use this new instrument called a 30-year... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
if her students failed to get jobs, so she immersed herself in their job searches and all but guaranteed their placement. It worked, generating powerful word-of-mouth buzz for her fledgling academy. More... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
largely because I thought I could help the economy by creating jobs and value.” Cohen has more than just a passing knowledge of the economic conditions he is battling. Born in Cairo in 1945, the older son of a businessman whose family... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Iraq, Edwards isn’t far behind. Pulling out now, he explains, “would be an absolute guarantee of chaos and anarchy.” Faced with a choice between a political novice vet and an incumbent hawk, the local Veterans of Foreign Wars’ political... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
tax incentives), they will work on the set for months at a time and follow through on marketing once the film is complete. However, there are often no guarantees that a project will make it to the big screen, and for that reason it’s... View Details