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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
rethinking how we calculate financial aid for MBA students whose family earnings or ongoing family support might necessitate additional assistance, to partnering with entities like the Executive Leadership Council to increase the number of View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
mining," notes, "With the help of a sophisticated screening model, you may find some small yet lucrative plays that others have overlooked. Our company has had some success with that strategy in Texas." Even so, Fischer notes that the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Schwarzman told him that he was making a mistake. It was all for naught, but this chutzpah was a bit of a hallmark: A year earlier, Schwarzman spearheaded a successful effort to get Anthony and the Imperials—then one of the most popular... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
The flight deck had taken a beating from takeoffs and landings and needed to be resurfaced. Being a supply officer is like managing a small city. At the Naval Academy I was intrigued by the glamour of being a pilot or a ship driver, but... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
each of these indices of safety and performance, they were exemplars of the company's efforts to create a new kind of offshore operating environment. Our discussions with senior managers led us to believe that organizational features of... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
expressing frustration about their country’s recurring crises, and describing a business class lacking cohesion. While Chilean business leaders have secured legitimacy for their role in Chilean economic success over the last three... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
of the average American. The second part of that definition is immensely important. Sometimes you hear people saying the US would be more competitive if only wages were lower or we had a cheaper dollar. But if we took a national pay cut in that fashion, we'd hardly... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
examiner with the White House Office of Management and Budget, where he oversaw NASA projects to see how well they were adhering to presidential policy, as well as being stewards of the taxpayers’ money. “After years of aerospace being... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
afterwards, you felt this pull to do more than build successful companies. How did that impact your career in the near-term and in the long-term? Kortenhorst: In the near-term, after my stint in Bulgaria, I spent a number of years helping... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
$200-million, ten-year commitment to sponsor the Brazilian team, the world's soccer leader. Bronx Cheers If a principal challenge for pro sports is managing the high level of player salaries while keeping the onfield product affordable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a search for the right... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
same time, you’ll have a nominating committee that really tries to look at what skills, experiences do we need on the board and try to kind of oversee and manage the board’s evolution over time by identifying the right kinds of candidates... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
in my new book, I talk about the leader as coach. And many people are hiring coaches like Chad to help them through it. But I think as leaders, we need to be coaches. We're no longer command and control, directing people what to do. And we're not just View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
‘Get down! Everybody get down! It's coming down!' " If any rationale underlay the nihilism and bloodlust of the WTC attacks, perhaps it was a belief that massive death and destruction in the heart of the world's most successful... View Details