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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
Minister but resigned to serve on the Peace Commission negotiating a settlement to the 1994 Zapatista peasant rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas. Enriquez-Cabot is currently a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Center for International... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Production Board. From 1958 to 1962, Fox was director of research for the U.S. Commission on Money and Credit, which conducted a major study of the nation's monetary system. He was also a cofounder of the Cambridge Research Institute.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
director of the Brady Commission, a task force created to examine ways to avoid another stock market crash like Black Monday on October 24. “It was hard not to say yes,” he recalls. After the commission completed its report, Glauber... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
successful ever since the commissioning of their new building in 1983. What Feng shui problems are commonly found in Western buildings? Long corridors, angular structures, protruding columns and corners, exposed pillars and structural... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
commissions or made large orders—were 10 percentage points more likely to buy the target company’s stock than they were in the month following the 13D filing—that is, once everyone knew the activist had acquired a stake in that company.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
last March, cohosted by the Chamber of Commerce and BankBoston, inspired the formation of The Year 2000 Commission, an eclectic group of government, business, community, and religious leaders. "The Year 2000 Commission will showcase... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
In June 2000, when the National Commission on Terrorism released its report, the commission's chairman, L. Paul ("Jerry") Bremer III (MBA '66), issued a warning. "There's a chance terrorists will try to stage a catastrophic event in the... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor.... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
Safety Commission and was US Secretary of Commerce (1992-93). She is currently President and CEO of Barbara Franklin Enterprises, an international trade consulting firm. Play Video duration: 2:37 Before HBS Play Video duration: 14:05 At... View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
a Few Good Women. University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, c2012. United States. President's Commission on the Status of Women. American Women: Report of the President's View Details
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Ursula von Rydingsvard Elegantka II 2013–14 / 2016 | About
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Permanent, commissioned sculptures by Von... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Ready for Takeoff: Web Portal Enters Second Phase
editorial teams across HBS, to name a few. "I also want to increase the percentage of original content by commissioning more freelance articles, monthly columns, and special reports. We would like to be a vehicle for HBS faculty to... View Details
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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
celebratory images of corporate America, commissioned by business managers and collected by business educators coming to terms with the “human factor” in the economic climate between the two world wars. Baker Library | Historical... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
should submit a letter of resignation to the Board." These GM guidelines have gained considerable acclaim, and many other public corporations have followed their lead. In its recently released report on "Director Professionalism," the National Association of Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
transparent spirit of Kickstarter with the rigors of Securities and Exchange Commission oversight. The world of so-called equity crowdfunding holds the promise of democratizing both ends of the earlystage investment game, its advocates... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
the time a partner at the Athens-based Ulysses Commission Trading Company, an agency company representing foreign manufacturers in the Greek market, watched those dramatic days in late 1989 with mixed feelings. "I knew that the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
SOAKING IT IN: Scott Smith has proven the absorbency of his firm's Opflex polymer foam at major oil spills in the Gulf and China. Last April’s Gulf of Mexico disaster was back on the front pages in early January when the National View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016
2013 elections in Kenya, the Electoral Commission sent 11 million nonpartisan text messages to registered voters in an effort to boost electoral participation. The messages had a positive effect on turnout but also decreased trust in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
the paper says. With some evidence that “a few are behaving badly,” Froot says the findings might prompt the US Securities and Exchange Commission to scrutinize weaknesses in the announcement process. “We definitely think this merits... View Details
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the public.” 53 U.S. Steel commissioned the prominent German graphic artist M. Peter Piening to design the volume. 54 The corporation would have been familiar with the Bauhaus artist’s work with major advertisers, as art director for Life... View Details