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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
plantations to local growers, transforming itself into a marketing company. The firm’s shareholders opted for lower risks but also lower profits. Multinationals and Global Capitalism by Geoffrey Jones... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
sustainability risks and opportunities, has heard from a major technology company that they are considering the availability of renewable energy resources in site selection. “It has moved from being tenth on the list of siting criteria to... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
employees. So that's on the S side of ESG. G, governance. This is really how a company behaves. What are their standards for leadership? What's the makeup of the board? What are their risk controls, View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
of experience that you gain by working for a reputable firm and getting training, mentoring that will lower your risk of failure later on. Everyone wants to be Bill Gates and Zuckerberg, but those are the outliers. That's not the norm.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
create value for shareholders and society alike. That worked in many cases. But some executives who were loaded up with stock options succumbed to the temptation to “game” a financial-markets inefficiency, inefficiencies caused by... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
meeting the expectations of security analysts. What’s wrong with focusing on the short term? If you do it long enough, it will destroy long-term value. You stop investing in R&D, stop being innovative, stop expanding sales forces, stop expanding into markets, and stop... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
doubled to approximately $275 billion annually. But the Golden Age of Philanthropy, as some began to call it, risked spending much of that money unproductively. Of the nation’s more than 1.2 million nonprofits, most operated on shoestring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
That’s when the courage to take risks came out—because I was so excited about what I was doing.” —JH Ganesh Natarajan Unleashing Employee Potential “It’s not really a textbook leadership style,” Natarajan concedes, but treating employees... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
At a crossroads in February 2001, the shareholders of Zansar Technologies were waiting for a maiden dividend, and profit margins were sliding. A new leadership team took charge and turned Zensar around into one of the most successful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
things don't go as planned, remember to look in the mirror, and don't lose the learning. Leave everything better than you found it. Leslie Hale (MBA 2001), CFO and sVP, RLJ Lodging Trust, Bethesda, Maryland Take advantage of the fact that your MBA affords you the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
with Digital Equipment Corp., for instance-was a way to make it big in this business," explains Elfers, who was in charge of the first investment portfolio. "But I felt that if Greylock were to be successful in the long run, we should be much more selective and View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey. Together with his wife and children, Feder sets off for an exotic island on a self-prescribed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
kind of generosity. Royalties from this book go to Christian ministries focused on spreading the Gospel and providing for those in need. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to reinvent themselves in operations,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
all but two investors wrote their checks despite massive uncertainty as to the nature of the criminal charges and the complete certainty of bad press and high litigation costs. We launched the new website on time. As the company grew,... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
controversial IPO in 2007, raising $458 million. Many, including Nobel Peace Prize–winner Muhammad Yunus, have accused CB of making a profit at the expense of the poor, passing most of the earnings on to shareholders rather than lowering... View Details