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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Organizational design, structure, and culture do play a role and almost always have in corporate scandals. Companies that get into trouble often do so because of minimal internal connections between many parts of the organization. With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
students consider topics such as deal sourcing, due diligence, deal structuring, governance issues, and the all-important question of how private equity firms create value. And in a mini-module on fundraising, “ABRY Fund V” examines a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
Cochairs Herman Bulls (MBA '85) and Ken Bacon (MBA '82) worked closely with Honorary Chair Dennis Hightower (MBA '74) and a program committee led by Jacqueline Adams (MBA '78) and Dayna Wilkinson (MBA '81) to present sessions on domestic and View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
as part of our Global Initiative, we have opened HBS research centers in Silicon Valley, the Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong), and Latin America (Buenos Aires). By providing our faculty with support of many types — including logistical, research, and technical — these offices... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
companies. With developments such as the recent Supreme Court decision allowing companies to spend more freely on political campaigns, the importance of corporate governance is likely to grow. Many boards are effective, and even on flawed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
pressures as the University, but in different ways. The cuts to funding have a smaller impact at HBS than they do at other Harvard schools, for example, given that the majority of the faculty’s research at the School is internally funded.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
echelon of management is being paid, thus placing the focus on internal equity. Finally, compensation committees should focus more on what the shareholders will accept. As CEO pay rises, it becomes, along with other executive... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
officials to take steps to enhance competitiveness. “While government policy sets the platform, companies have an essential role in improving the business environment in US communities,” says Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
(ForeEdge) The authors tell how an ad hoc, underfunded group of citizens worked together to challenge Boston boosters, the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee and derail Boston’s bid to host the 2024... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
leveraged, interconnected, and therefore vulnerable to shocks; inadequate rule of law and protection for property rights and contracts; underperforming education systems; massive internal and international... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
remarks on implementing sustainability in a Fortune 500 corporation. The entire event was brilliantly moderated by Ali Aslan, world-class international journalist. Vincent Dessain (MBA 1987), the head of the HBS Europe Research Center,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Governor of Kaduna State Malam Nasir AHMAD El-Rufai (left) and Mira Mehta (right) meet with Nigerian government officials (photo courtesy of Tomato Jos) Mira Mehta (MBA 2014) didn’t set out to become a farmer in northern Nigeria, but... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
focused on the phenomenon of bankruptcy. A consultant to or board member of numerous corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies over the years, Hayes expressed his aversion to Chapter 11 proceedings for companies trying... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
one by envisioning what she could not find: sexy, comfortable underwear that absorb odor and wick away moisture. More New Post for Palepu Professor Krishna Palepu, Senior Associate Dean for International Development at HBS, has been... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
scholarships, supported by committed donors and foundation grants. EARTH is a private, nonprofit school that offers a four-year undergraduate degree in agricultural sciences and natural resources management and a master’s degree in agribusiness innovation. Courses are... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
both arenas.” Having agreed to a five-year term at Yale, Donaldson returned to Wall Street in 1980 to run his own international investment fund. But when the NYSE came calling in 1990, he couldn’t resist another opportunity to upset the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
at an international trade and investment fair in China, he informed the gathering that between 2005 and 2010, China was the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment in the USA. Said Johnson, “Companies invest in America because... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
February, featured a keynote address by Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, who, during her tenure as U.S. Trade Representative from 1996 to 2001, pursued an aggressive agenda to open foreign markets around the world. Barshefsky, currently senior View Details