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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
On October 1, 1976, Jon Pellegrin (6th OPM), the then 32-year-old vice president of Wisconsin's Johnson Hill Press, walked solemnly into his father George's office. It was time. Slumping into the chair opposite his father's desk, he took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
Sides (MBA 2020), Director of Network Intelligence at Volta Charging "When I started my search for a job in the climate space, I was worried that my criteria were too narrow and there wouldn't be many interesting roles for someone with my background. I quickly found... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
experienced. Why did the SEC override strong industry opposition and require mutual-fund boards to appoint independent chairmen? The commission felt, and I strongly agree, that there’s an unacceptable conflict of interest when the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
(MBA 2020), Director of Network Intelligence at Volta Charging "When I started my search for a job in the climate space, I was worried that my criteria were too narrow and there wouldn't be many interesting roles for someone with my background. I quickly found the... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: damircudic] Click to watch. Book Excerpt Chapter 1: Problems as Opportunities By Mitchell Weiss There is a particular and much loved kind of administrative/convergent/scarcity thinking that appears so... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
2010 in one of the earliest high-profile controversies resulting from the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling. Target had contributed to a super PAC supporting business friendly candidates. As one of the candidate's opposition to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
at all until we cure cancer.'" (Shifting goals constantly, on the other hand, would be an inhibitor. Imagine a meeting at which the leader says something to the effect of, "Do this because I said so, and never mind that I said the exact View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
rulings―separated by several weeks and going in opposite directions―that affected the antitakeover force of SBs. We contribute to the long-standing debate on staggered boards by documenting empirical evidence consistent with the market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
rational decision making. Nonprofits often have a cultural opposition to structure. A lack of theory of management practice exists for nonprofits. These characteristics lead to a number of disputes between headquarters and affiliates,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
told me. “Impulsivity is the opposite of understanding facts.” As he would explain during our conversation, Joe lives according to the following principle: whether in your career or your personal life, understand the consequences – and... View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
and error rate. Instead, I stumbled into quite a different discovery. The statistical results I obtained were the opposite of what I'd predicted. Well-led teams with good relationships were apparently making more mistakes; there was a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
mistake made by CME is that it confused ownership with control. It continued to increase its ownership stake all the way to 99 percent, thinking that it was getting more and more control of the entity, while in reality the opposite was... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Obrador filed complaints with the Federal Election Tribunal, per the constitution, Maurer notes. And many prominent members of the opposition conservative party, if not conservative candidate Felipe Calderón, have defended López Obrador's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Allawi Illustration by Jack Unruh After spending much of his adult life in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, London-based businessman Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) couldn’t say no to an old friend who called to offer him a... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
with its Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions. This would create an encrypted messaging platform that would emphasize small groups over public content. While that may seem like a step towards privacy it may have the opposite... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
cortisol, and increased feelings of power and tolerance for risk; low-power posers exhibited the opposite pattern. In short, posing in powerful displays caused advantaged and adaptive psychological, physiological, and behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
In 1994, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko even insisted, despite criticism from nationalists, that it was "absolutely" in Belarus's interest to cling to Russia, and that such interest was clearly calculable. "As always," he declared,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer savings rates also decreased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
are managed by sophisticated real-time information systems; colleagues working 12 time zones apart can see and hear each other as they work at their desks—or in airport lounges on opposite sides of the planet. Publications, like this one,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne