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- 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
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
of dye When synthetic dyes first hit the market, there was not yet any federal or state regulation of food coloring techniques in the United States. As a result, more than 80 substances were utilized to dye... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025) - MBA
East and North Africa South America United States Filters Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
TroopSwap Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA 1976), Snap-on Ed Ellison (MBA 1991), St. Johns Country Day School Veterans Day, celebrated on November 11 in the United States, is a reminder that the military, through its personnel and its philosophy,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average South End family's income. In Massachusetts as a whole, one recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Whaling Ventures Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter AkinsHarvard Business School Case 813-086 : Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
much more advanced Down Under than Up Top in the United States, and that’s the inspiration behind Barrow’s apparel company, Coolibar (www.coolibar.com). While ordinary clothing does offer a modicum of protection, “Coolibar’s clothing is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
of the Yale School of Management; under-secretary of state during the Nixon administration; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; and chairman and CEO of Aetna. Along with his impressive résumé, Donaldson brought a... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Gulati states that managers have figured out what consumers want and what their company should offer but are only now appreciating the huge institutional barriers that prevent them from delivering. He offers a practical process by which... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
incentives make a difference in whether global warming and its fallout are contained. A growing number of climate solution startups count on government spending to give their customers purchasing power and a reason to buy. State and local... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How patient should we be in waiting for the tech productivity dividend? What do you think? Original Column For years we have been regaled with prospects of outsized productivity increases in the United View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
ideal choice for the study because its labor market shares many of the same characteristics as those found in the United States and the United Kingdom. "Aside from being a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
investment horizons make them willing to accept takeover offers that do not fully recognize the overall value of the target—a merger at a low price is preferred to no merger at all. Another question that interests us is what the role of activist investors in countries... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
first-year MBA students will travel to 15 cities across the United States to work on projects that involve the design of a new product, service, or experience for a local segment of that city’s population.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
outside the power structure. I'd like to see a few self-indulgent female millionaires run for office! Is the United States ready for a woman in the White House? Currently, about 75 percent of the population... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
issues at all generally brush them off, believing that the problems can and will be solved by better governance and more political will, that states will take care of it. But the third troublesome phenomenon is that governments clearly... View Details