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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
New York City. Armed with a “healthy respect for what I didn't know,” he excelled as an investor and was soon asked to help start a merchant bank in London. He returned to the United States in 1973 and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
An International Perspective
engineering science from the California Institute of Technology, Waite spent several years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group in a variety of technical and project management roles in Norway, the Netherlands, the United States, and Egypt. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
levels. Khan came to the United States from Pakistan when she was 17. She earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford University and became the youngest chief of staff to the CEO of a mobile advertising... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
hustled to book gigs for bachata artists in the United States and Europe, de Menil dreamed of a bachata academy that would ensure the survival of the art form that had typically been passed down informally.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
from outside the United States last year, proving the company’s standing as a truly global entity. And Immelt has made it a priority to ensure that the ranks of upper management reflect this new reality.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
platform that made Enron the top buyer and seller of gas and electricity in the United States and Europe in its first year of operation. Many examples of extremely inept management are also positioned... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- Web
Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
contemporaries, many of whose works were shown in the NAAI exhibition, deftly traversed the worlds of high art, fashion, and commerce. 17 A number of artists in the exhibition came from major metropolitan centers in the United View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bradford (MBA 1982) Short Hills, NJ Don’t Punish Success I disagree with Mr. LaMagna 100 percent. First, numerous studies have documented that increasing capital gains taxes negatively impacts capital formation. A decrease in capital formation directly impacts the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
There are over three million corporations in the United States today. From my experience working with a range of businesses, I am sure there is no cancer of immorality among them. The vast majority of our... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
I saw in studying winning streaks and losing streaks in sports as well as businesses and nations, it’s easy to appear united when your team is winning. Divisiveness tends to characterize losing streaks, in which people try to hold on to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
EnTRIPreneurs
Gerald (HBS 2014). "But our goal is to help MBAs better understand the challenges of being an entrepreneur here in the 'other' United States, far from the two coasts." At summer's end, Gerald and fellow students Hicham Mhammedi Alaoui,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
of the transformative nature of their experience: "What I learned at HBS I don't think could be learned anyplace else," states a 1962 alumna quoted in the case. By 1985, women made up 25 percent of the graduating MBA class; 10 years... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
films). Similarly, we also predict and find that should DVDs are held longer than want DVDs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsNone this week PublicationsDoes Employment Protection Reduce Productivity?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
of opening fifty ‘microfactories’ around the globe, each building 2,000 units a year of cars customized to fit different regions’ local tastes,” the Boston Herald reported (December 15, 2008). Invoking the sudsy success story of Jim Koch... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
As cochairman of the board of Loews Corporation, Andrew Tisch (MBA 1977) has played a leadership role in one of the largest diversified companies in the United States. He is also using his skills to help improve inner-city education,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
self-described “bookworm,” is used to being a little different. As a high-school student, he appreciated his country’s strong commitment to education even as he longed to experience other cultures. At age 18, he was given that opportunity through a scholarship to the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
since then has experienced a lingering period of weakness, with slower than usual productivity growth, job growth, and investment growth. The report, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: The State of US Competitiveness in 2016, which... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
from an increase in new hires and the balance from an increase in earnings. Interestingly, the United Kingdom has followed suit, charging a newly created small business commissioner post with tackling what the U.K.’s Federation of Small... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
opportunity cost of their time. Yet by law, such meetings are not allowed to convey material information. "There seems to be a disconnect," says Eugene F. Soltes, an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management Unit at Harvard... View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
approach, you can get more efficiency out of the system and still have a nice balance of fairness when you have two conflicting programs in the system." According to the US Congress Joint Economic Committee, the cost associated with domestic flight delays in the... View Details