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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
company to still lose money, Byrnes explains how managers can rethink their business for maximum profit. Along the way, he punctures such harmful myths as revenues are good, costs are bad; all customers should get the same great service;... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
University of Illinois, earned an MBA at the University of Chicago, and after working as a banker in the Midwest, joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a bond trader in 1975. Rising through the ranks, he became the firm's chairman and CEO in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
2012) Abstract Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs, and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at little View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2021
of the Latin America Research Center (LARC), is about a difficult personnel decision Bruck, a rising star in the Argentina-based Amazon rival, faced. In 2017, as corporate sales director at MercadoLibre, she managed a smart and dedicated... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Abstract—Emissions regulation today is non-uniform, with some regions imposing carbon costs within their borders while many others do not. This gives rise to concerns over carbon leakage—offshoring and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
currency, triggering a chain reaction that some believe contributed to the Great Recession of 2008. Here’s their thinking: Although the depressed value of the yuan increased the cost of raw materials imported by China, it produced a huge... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
challenge, ironically, is our own success. Due, in part, to our initiatives, people have recognized the value in Southeast Queens, and the rapidly rising cost of land has become an inhibiting factor to... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
dropped their $120 subscription it cost everyone in the chain, from the distributor to every content channel. Eventually the industry had to pay attention. There are currently two primary approaches to winning back cord-cutters and... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
often inadequate for scaling. SG&A (selling, general, and administrative) costs then rise faster than revenues, and resource-constrained ventures are forced to raise a dilutive round of capital, operate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
Chartered Bank) in India in 1982, rising through the ranks in a variety of merchant, retail, and investment banking assignments before moving to Morgan Stanley’s India operation in 1994. Through a joint venture with the investment bank JM... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
India's economic growth is an exciting new playing field for the retail industry and for entrepreneurs looking to get in on the ground level, a panel of that country's businessmen agreed. Rising incomes, increased advertising, and a jump... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
are putting those satellites up there that will benefit directly or other third parties that could rise from that is one thing we could look at. The cost of access to space though is really the key thing.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
railroad, the telegraph, and a host of other innovations related to them—along with the rise of powerful business figures, such as John D. Rockefeller—gave many observers pause. The reaction was increased oversight and anti--big-business... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace