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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
emphasis on function reflected conference chair Professor Kenneth A. Froot's decision to bring a different message to the gathering. "With a functional approach, you do less comparison of the institutions for corporate governance and instead View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
1.5 degrees Celsius. Which, you might remember from Episode 1, is the amount of global temperature rise, compared to pre-industrial times, after which scientists say serious climate catastrophes are likely. So, yes, progress is positive.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
hectic private lives. In the upper ranks, Mack notes that typical managers in other restaurants work seventy to eighty hours each week, inspiring the grim phrase “burn 'em and turn 'em.” By offering managers a forty-hour week at View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
parents were both the first in their families to go to college. They met in high school, where his mother was the class valedictorian and his father was the salutatorian. “My narrative is the American narrative,” observes Howard, who often thinks about his own path as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
adoption is going to increase, then inevitably the price will go up. Epilogue from Santi Bitcoin is still small compared with the US dollar and other major currencies, but it is starting to become more relevant. Bitcoin has larger money... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
they are. Their names appear on the generic, straight-to-the-wastebasket proxy forms that shareholders receive. But despite recent improvements that have increased shareholders’ voices in governance, a levelheaded observer like former SEC chairman William Donaldson... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present. It aims to place the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative perspective, dealing with three related issues. First, it examines the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
stores were created using its platform compared to the first quarter of 2020, and the company’s revenue rose 97 percent to $714.3 million. Helen Mou (MBA 2014) is a Shopify product lead who is focused on the company’s conversational... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
employees, a long-view strategy, and keeping the family businesses home. For Bauerly, owning and growing Minnesota businesses made perfect sense. If you compare states across the country on a scatter plot, you tend to see an increase in... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
will also drive them to India because only India can compete with China on both labor costs and domestic-market potential. Foreign firms will demand access to India and force the country to open up. As India does open up, what are its other competitive strengths? View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
service. One alum from the Class of 2001, a group that bridged the old and the new, compared the food in Kresge Hall to “a bad airport lounge.” By contrast, the Spangler Food Court fare was “amazing,” an assessment that holds true a... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
way our business has evolved and our industry has progressed, there are very few people who are not in a position to invest in a horse. You can get into a piece of a horse for a couple thousand dollars. Hanna: Oh, that was one of my questions. OK. Finley: So, you View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
virtually every leading business school in the United States (and, increasingly, in the world), the impact of this effort can't be overestimated. As in business, we have to look for opportunities where we have a comparative advantage in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
construction. STARTING SMALL: The last step involved planting 9,000 tiny perennials roughly eight inches apart. In blazing summer heat, the daytime temperatures on a conventional asphalt roof can reach 160 degrees or higher compared to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
comes from ticket and concession sales, compared with the standard 50 percent of most performing arts organizations. With numerous public outreach programs, the Big Apple, adds Slifka, "is both an incredibly successful performing arts... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
figuring out how to commercialize that and how to apply it in a way that can benefit humanity. But the two missions sit side by side in some sense. Morrell: So, compare what you do to the rest of the AI sector. How is what you do... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
fuels such as oil and gas, but also with wind and solar, whose costs have plummeted over the past decade. Competing power sources are often compared using levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, which is calculated by dividing the lifetime... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
field is also pronounced: A recent report by Catalyst, which studies women in business, found that only 18 percent of newly minted women MBAs worldwide take managerial jobs at tech companies (including information technology among a wider field) as View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Ukraine will likely intensify, roiling energy markets further and raising questions about the future of globalization, says HBS Professor Rawi Abdelal. Putin’s iron fist vs. Zelensky’s moral clarity Historian and HBS professor Nancy Koehn, author of ‘Forged in Crisis,’... View Details