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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
privately owned, for-profit companies that guarantee mortgage-backed securities and pay the government to back those guarantees in case the companies themselves fail? That’s essentially the system we had with Fannie and Freddie, except in... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
higher and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their home investments drop in the year after the investment, while they have a positive change in the year after their investments abroad. SWFs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children
Kevin Jenkins (MBA 1985) is president and CEO of the nonprofit World Vision International, a global Christian humanitarian relief, development, and advocacy organization. In this video, he talks about the organization’s mission and his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
was aligned with the interests of shareholders. If the company’s stock did well, executive pay would rise in concert. Thus was born the idea that CEOs should serve to maximize shareholder value, the mantra... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
all firms in this study. Small firms tap debt cautiously, strategically Over time, researchers found that the small businesses not only kept a buffer, but used more of their debt capacity to pay for longer-term expenses beyond day-to-day... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
The technology behind telemedicine—health care delivered remotely and asynchronously—has been improving for years, but in 2017, the United States hit a tipping point. This year, Kaiser Permanente’s CEO announced that of the company’s 100... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
As John Apen points out, "Alignment works only if CEOs and boards have the same time perspective as the other two groups (investors and employees)... top managers' and Wall Street goals were all short term.…" C. J.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
help them expand or make critical improvements. Launched in 2009, Edify has assisted 1,100 private schools by loaning each a minimum $5,000. The schools, which are run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, are able to View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Just Rewards
Michael Darrington (PMD 27, 1974) believes in putting people first. As CEO of Greggs, which he led for 24 years to become the United Kingdom’s baking industry leader and in previous positions where he oversaw strategic turnarounds. He has... View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) is CEO of Nightingale Nurses, a service that provides traveling nurses to hospitals and health care facilities across the United States. In this interview, he talks about the advantages of flexibility and the... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- News
From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing
an expanded metal wall,” says Jim Knott Sr. (OPM 17, 1991), president and CEO of Riverdale Mills Corporation. In a recent interview with the Voice of America News, Knott noted that Riverdale’s security fencing is already in use along... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Unfortunately, the technology for growing flu viruses to make vaccines is fifty years old — it’s chicken eggs.” — HBS Professor of Management Practice and former Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin, at a November HBS panel discussion on drug... View Details
- Web
‘Misfits’ in Power: When a Company Needs a Leader CEO, But Gets a Manager | Working Knowledge
Leadership ‘Misfits’ in Power: When a Company Needs a Leader CEO, But Gets a Manager Featuring Raffaella Sadun . By Ben Rand on June 12, 2025 . A study of nearly 5,000 CEOs finds that hiring a manager when a leader is needed—or vice... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
It’s fitting that Erik Dyson’s HBS interview was conducted over a pay phone in Costa Rica, where he and his wife, Debbi, were finishing a three-year program for Habitat for Humanity. Now the CEO of the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
underperform and be overcompensated. A caricature, but sadly still true: consider the enormous pay packages for CEOs in companies that lose money. Shareholder protests (such as those in the United Kingdom),... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
he or she earned $7 million being a secretary. The answer is that secretary would have to pay close to $2.5 million in taxes, $1.5 million more than I would. The difference, of course, is that my good fortune was a long-term capital gain,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
logistical challenges. Meanwhile, McMillon took the bold step in mid-March of paying $550 million in one-time bonuses to hourly employees to reward them for keeping shelves stocked in a time of unprecedented demand. Brian Cornell, View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
between Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai in March 2020 attracted so much attention. You’d have to be pretty naïve not to assume that somewhere on their menu was negotiation around Google’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 30 Oct 2019
- News
Creating Agents of Change
Susana Eshleman (MBA 1998) is president and CEO of Children International. In this interview she talks about the goals and benefits of running an international nonprofit organization. “Children International is a global nonprofit... View Details