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- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
close, intelligent attention may be a challenge. We must recognize that there exists a number of public companies that might not merit a significant commitment of wealth by people who would be highly qualified to serve as directors (a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
attention until things fall apart. And they’ve gotten older: They don’t worry so much about their own sex lives, they worry about their daughters’. You’ve developed a new communications technology. What’s it all about? It’s talk-back TV.... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners, recently told the Financial Times. In founding his real estate investment firm, he and his partners paid particular View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
himself in the thick of postwar Iraqi politics. Before returning to London disheartened in May 2006, he also served as minister of defense, minister of finance, and as a member of the Transitional National Assembly. Back in London, Allawi turned his View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
feet?” Moore asked in astonishment. “Thirty thousand feet?” There, marked on the map with the same attention given any other summit was an indistinct sketch of a mountain, labeled Mount Koonka, height 30,000 feet above sea level. A curly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
move the goalposts all the time, people don’t pay attention to long-range plans. Actually, we learned something about planning from the Chinese central planning system. They work on five-year plans. The plan doesn’t change, and you work... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
of the Match.com aesthetic?” This second iteration of online dating is pretty much the exact opposite of Match.com. The new era of online dating entrepreneurs has heard the complaints of women overwhelmed by lewd attention on dating... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
first time that women played professionally. But no one took notice of it. I didn't pay much attention to it. I knew it was going to fail. But they did have these leagues overseas, and because they were done mostly as amateur... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day on I focused my attention on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
New Jersey, I was the project director for the introduction of the Exclusive Bus Lane (XBL) on the New Jersey approach to the Lincoln Tunnel. This was the first contraflow freeway bus lane anywhere; it remains the highest hourly passenger-volume bus lane in the world.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
case sets forth various proposals for increasing its capacity. In considering change, the importance of the organization’s close-knit culture — built around quality service, attention to patients, and an attractive work environment for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
taken to the woodshed through the advent of the media rankings — a public pronouncement that insufficient attention by schools to the needs of their student and corporate “customers” could not be corrected from within. By the beginning of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
has been that government regulation frequently fails,” the panel’s two Republicans argue. For his part, Moss welcomes the minority critique and acknowledges the inevitability of regulatory errors. “But I still come out in a different place,” he explains. “By focusing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
because they came easily to me. So, in RC Marketing, I was especially paying attention because I knew I had lots to learn! One simple lesson that I certainly did not appreciate before I took Marketing centered on how to price a product.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
attention of business, which has always been part of the solution to global problems. That’s another great opportunity that these times present for us as a business school. “I see my agenda as ushering in a new century of innovation for... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
orders can be delivered. Alex: But other times it means when you are reaching a customer, there are so many unmet needs that you can offer. And to be able to captivate their attention and change behavior, you have to offer a range of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
institution," Knutson says of the label that has brought to public attention little-known groups such as Burning Spear and Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, as well as the better-known George Thorogood and the Destroyers and J.D. Crowe and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
motivation and aligns team efforts to deliver your leadership outcomes; foster responsive working relationships, reinforce effective commitments, and focus leadership attention on the right things; establish psychological safety to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many... View Details