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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
slightly increased to 2.61 [5, 10], while the best upper bound remained unchanged. In this paper we show the optimal lower bound on truthful anonymous mechanisms: no such mechanism can guarantee an approximation ratio better than m. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
Professor Mihir Desai explains what managers can learn from one unlucky investor’s experience. The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve “star” compensation? The idea that their pay is driven by the invisible... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
to pay the IOUs coming due." Financial markets can help that happen by offering mechanisms that enable capital to be allocated to companies and industries where it can be the most productive. The result is structural changes in the... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Ann Moore, MBA 1978
Fresh out of HBS in 1978, Ann Moore did the unexpected and accepted the lowest-paying of 13 job offers, as a Time financial analyst, because she loved magazines. The unexpected turned into the unprecedented when she rose through the ranks to become the chairman and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
in half, with no loss in pay to the workers.” David F. in Arizona reminded us that “Markets may be efficient, but they’re not always quick to reach equilibrium.” As a result, some businesses will invest in training their own employees,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Filling a Vacuum
According to the headline in the Wall Street Journal (October 26, 1999), Gregory Slayton (MBA '90) is a "Silicon Valley Hybrid: A Boss Who Makes Others' Ideas Pay Off." Slayton, president and CEO of... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension liabilities rose by much more than expected. "At that point,... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of governance infrastructure has grown up around executive... View Details
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Ann S. Moore
Ann S. Moore (MBA 1978), the first female chair and CEO of Time Inc., oversaw nearly 150 magazines and their brand extensions. During her tenure, she launched more magazines than Time founder Henry R. Luce and, as publisher of People,... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the brand of the country’s largest magazine publisher
Ann S. Moore (MBA 1978), the first female chair and CEO of Time Inc., oversaw nearly 150 magazines and their brand extensions. During her tenure, she launched more magazines than Time founder Henry R. Luce and, as publisher of People,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
costs. But that doesn't mean Southwest isn't investing in itself. The company's willingness to spend time and money on people and equipment is evident in its low rate of employee turnover; the high ratio of supervisors to front-line... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Seth Klarman on the Critical Value of the Long View
In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Seth Klarman (MBA 1982), CEO of the Baupost Group, spoke about the perilous state of the public perception of capitalism. “People will say the words ‘Wall Street’ with a derogatory tone. They’re... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors Your company’s scientists and investors can be antennas that bring great ideas into your company. The key, says Associate Professor Lee Fleming, is understanding small-world networks. The New CEO’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Caufield & Byers have invested over $200 million in green technologies; Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) serves as president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy; and Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is president and CEO of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
Business. At their 25th Reunion, nearly one-fourth of the class were presidents or CEOs of their respective companies, and more remarkable in today’s era of the disposable CEO, nearly one-third of the class would retire in such roles.... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
there is great uncertainty as to whom the successor should be and how the process of finding a successor should be managed. There is something very wrong with this picture. I would have been surprised by this situation before completing my latest research on View Details