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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
ongoing scrutiny on the part of government regulators, who themselves experience a wide range of pressures from consumer and other advocacy groups." Emmons argues that ultimately the notion that government is becoming less relevant to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
Program resembled a two-year road race, a relentless marathon of cases, with only Sundays off. Three afternoons a week, a few dozen students from around the world would escape the pressure on the rough-and-tumble rugby pitch, in sharp... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
organized support. Skilling and Lay failed to provide that support. Whatever the espoused intentions of Enron’s leaders, the organization’s commitment to the qualitative aspects of individual and group performance began to break down... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Pathfinder
of the more successful companies in the world,” Lesser told The Business Times of Singapore in a wide-ranging conversation that touches on the firm’s five decades of double-digit growth and evolution into digital solutions. Clients, he says, are “feeling more View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
When Bozidar Djelic turned 37 last April, the musicians cutting loose at his birthday soiree boasted some pretty impressive days jobs. The one hundred guests at the celebration, including Serbia's Prime Minster Zoran Djindjic, were treated to a View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
thought. In this or any context, however, there is a lot of “baggage” in being from a minority. As an outsider, there is an unspoken pressure to speak and act on behalf of “your” people. For example, consider an individual female... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
facility’s performance. “There is a lot of pressure to deliver and deliver quickly,” Sadun says. “The rational response of an appointed NHS CEO is not necessarily to improve the long-term performance of the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
business and financial-market orientation. Louis Gerstner Jr. (MBA 1965), former CEO and chair of IBM, has written that you always get more of whatever you measure. Certainly, the constant measurement of professional money managers View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
it is important they understand how their contributions are being used. The report explains the School’s strategic and flexible rolling five-year plan, which is responsive to changes in the operating environment. “During a year of multiple View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
the community -- its outside stakeholders. You can have responsibility at the top of the company, but if it doesn't permeate the entire organization the stakeholders can't count on it. What about bottom-line responsibility to shareholders? Any senior manager today has... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
appearance of healthy-looking skin.” Rosemary is the source of a natural antirancidity agent. “In a synthetic form, the chemical compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) would perform the same function,” Levy notes, “but many consumers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
Making cities more attractive for people takes pressure off our open spaces.” A cofounder of Urban Partners—a developer of urban infill, mixed-use, and transit-oriented real estate—Rosenfeld has moved between the private and public... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
(or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler’s merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S. market, they are beset by falling sales, staggering financial obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
Business schools also have to think carefully about their curriculum. We’ve been talking about the need for corporations to adjust to a changing environment, increasing pressures to dial down the single-minded pursuit of profit and to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose companies that aspire to excellence... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
and his wife, Lisa, live in Rhode Island with their two children. Robert A. Hut (12th OPM) is executive vice president of Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., which licenses to the world market the stage performance rights of Broadway... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
were all over the map. There were plenty of examples of time pressure spawning creative thinking — Apollo 13, for instance — but there were also many occasions where not having enough time squelched creative thoughts. Given that creative... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
communities where they serve. It sounds old-fashioned, and yet it’s almost revolutionary. What set the stage for recent business scandals? Greed took over. It started with the junk bonds and the corporate raiders of the late 1980s. This put a lot of View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
day-to-day activities of your job and with your overall career direction," says Butler. Adds Waldroop, "Knowing who you are and what you're looking for in your life - regardless of the pressures around you - is of inestimable importance."... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock