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Greenhill House | About

in the industry, headed the investment banking division, and rose to the rank of president. In 1993, Greenhill became chairman and CEO of Smith Barney. Greenhill’s many contributions to HBS include service on the School’s Visiting... View Details

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Bloomberg: hedge funds

How do I screen for or find performance and rankings of hedge funds in Bloomberg? Type HFND <GO> for an overview of Bloomberg's Hedge Fund Database. Type FPC <GO> for the Fund Performance Rankings. Click the... View Details

28 Jan 2008
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Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

salt, it is said that about 50-plus million Chinese and 20-plus million Indians live outside their home countries. India's tendency to shun its diaspora must rank as among the most disastrous decisions made by a nation in modern times:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2021
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Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

about these findings? Yes and no, says Nicholas. While the harmful effects of GE’s high-level jobs may appear worrisome to people currently working in the upper ranks of their companies, not every organization or industry may see the same... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

2008
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Industrial Specialization and Regional Clusters in the Ten New EU Member States

By: Orjan Solvell, Christian H.M. Ketels and Goran Lindqvist

Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of regional concentration patterns within ten new European Union (EU) member states, EU10, and make comparisons with EU15 and the US economy.
Design/methodology/approach—Industrial... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Policy; Employment; Industry Clusters; Industry Structures; European Union; United States

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03 Jan 2023
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How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

Scouts of the USA from 1976 to 1990, was ranked by Fortune magazine in 2015, according to her obituary, as the “37th in its list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders, ahead of Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase.” Peter... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Jun 2015
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The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

hall from John, has studied the ways in which organizations hide information from consumers-sometimes duplicitously. In a previous paper about U.S. News & World Report college rankings of MBA programs, for example, he found a strong... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

path through the upper ranks of investment banking as well as his success building one of the world’s leading investment funds focused on infrastructure. Today he runs Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), managing a portfolio that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

27 Nov 2006
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What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?

interview than the interviewee." According to Wally Bock, "When I conducted research I found that the more effective supervisors spent the bulk of their performance evaluation meeting time talking about the future." Forced View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Dec 2021
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The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

States, Zhang found that purchased companies added nearly 15 percent more minority managers and 4 percent more female managers to their ranks than unacquired companies during the same period. "When the old ways are not working, we need to... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

materials. He was selected by the Aspen Institute to participate in the Finance Leaders Fellowship program as a senior leader in the venture capital industry and was recently selected as the Edison Achievement Award winner for his contributions to innovative technology... View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

financial advisory capacity in U.S. and foreign transactions. By 1966, Lehman Brothers, described by Time magazine as “a diversified department store of high finance,” ranked among the nation’s top investment banks in total dollar volume.... View Details

11 Aug 2008
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Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

a company? A: The OSM is analogous to a military general's chief of staff. The general is responsible and accountable for developing the strategy to win wars and battles. But a general almost always has a chief-of-staff, often several View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Employers by city (United States)

How do I find the major employers in a U.S. city or metropolitan area? Use the American City Business Journals database. Digital editions of weekly business journals and electronic versions of the Book of Lists which include View Details

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Sylvester Wee

"You’ll never make it." I’ve heard that same line too many times growing up, but never once succumbed to it. I started competitive tennis late at the age of 12 but trained hard to eventually become the top ranked player in Singapore. I... View Details

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Airborne Express

By: Jan W. Rivkin

In the wake of a highly successful quarter, senior managers of Airborne Express, the third largest player in the express mail industry, review the firm's competitive position. Airborne has survived, and recently prospered, in an industry with significant economies of... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Business Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Global Strategy; Rank and Position; Service Industry

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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

2001 to further his work and research. Impact & recognition Advisor to countries, corporations, non-profits, and academic circles across the globe Seven-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year View Details

22 Oct 2007
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Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

order of tasks. A complementary tool, the SCE (system complexity estimator), ranks a software module based on its complexity and compares its actual architecture with its ideal (simplest) architecture in order to learn where a team might... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

25 Oct 2010
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Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

its US management ranks mostly with British expats instead of hiring locally. How did that strategy work for them? What can we all learn? A: Tesco established Fresh & Easy as a greenfield investment rather than acquiring or joint... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Mar 2021
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How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

data and US Census figures. The authors found that Black men from counties that ranked in the 25th percentile of the discrimination index were 90 percent more willing to volunteer than men from counties in the 75th percentile, where... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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