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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
a victim, Lemmon argues that too often we are comfortable with a narrative that sees women as objects of pity. “Women have been pulling families through dark periods in even the most difficult countries without any acknowledgment,” Lemmon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, seeks to redeem the oft-maligned finance industry. Desai argues that “viewing finance through the prism of the humanities will help us restore humanity to finance,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
our society," he said. Arnold Rifkin argued that offsetting this blockbuster mania are numerous examples of high-quality television programming and filmmaking. He cited recent independent films such as Sling Blade and The English Patient,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Oct 2000
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Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
nonrational part is when somebody offers us evidence of a mistake and we don't say, 'Oh my goodness! Thank you so much!'" Jensen argued that "what learning is about, at its very core, is finding out when we're making an error." Thus, an... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Harvard’s Kennedy School, argue for serious corporate soul-searching: “As a society, we have bought into a system in which we ask little of corporate leaders beyond the aggressive pursuit of short-term self-interest. For two decades, this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
particular jobs, but the professors argued that agricultural was a social, economic and political enterprise, and studying the entire system would lead to better decisions. This magazine named the publication of their 1957 textbook, A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
M.R. Covey (MBA ’89) with Rebecca R. Merrill (Free Press) Covey argues that trust is a hard-edged economic driver, a learnable, measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
high-powered execs and entrepreneurs. Yet, if executives have a sense of their larger purpose and their role in the bigger picture, argue Lim and Overwater, their businesses and careers will benefit and their lives will be richer. Many... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
argued that they cannot realistically or financially be held responsible for the labor practices of their foreign suppliers." This hands-off stance has been changing, Spar observes, "as a direct result of heightened human rights activism,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
that to happen is for the Fed to allow the economy to improve. Since the financial crisis, the Boston Fed’s leadership has been consistent—and correct—in arguing that policy could be accommodative and patient in moving off that stance. View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
now facing the consequences of the many failures of American and world leadership in the previous century. It appears likely that we are now in the position of standing on the deck of a sinking ship, and all we can do is argue about the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while robust governments must play a role, leadership by business is essential. For enterprising companies—whether large multinationals, established... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
allows us to remove all of the emotion and then we can tap into our intuition. Because at the end of the day, you'll never have perfect data. You just can't. And so even in the age of big data, I would argue we have way too much data. But... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
were hitting a wall. From our perspective, David was holding the reins too tightly and wasn’t sharing a concrete enough vision of where we were heading as an enterprise,” says van Bever. “I began to argue after the first couple of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Rakuten.” “Students have strong reactions to this. On the one hand, some insist that this is a poison pill that must be swallowed—there’s no choice,” comments Neeley. “Others say, ‘This is impossible, the CEO is crazy. How can you do that?’ ” For her part, Neeley View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
the future. In Do Lunch or Be Lunch: The Power of Predictability in Creating Your Future, Stevenson (with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank) argues that predictability in the business organization - created by practices such as establishing precise... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes
Shanghai and Dartmouth's Tuck School, argue that Chinese enterprises are characterized by a unique organizational culture and climate. The authors classified corporate culture according to four types: entrepreneurial, bureaucratic,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Jay Lorsch and the Boston Consulting Group’s Colin Carter (MBA ’71) argue that corporate boards have made progress in the last decade, but are being pressed to perform unrealistic duties, given their structure, processes, and membership.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
half-time. The return to research was fueled by a breakthrough from the team—a new theory arguing that the cortex is not only processing all the information our senses are collecting but processing locations too. “Each little part of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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America the Difficult
States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S. outbound FDI — the developed markets of Europe and Japan and the emerging markets of China and India — are filled with capital... View Details