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- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
executive roles at Kemin since joining the company in early 2006. Most recently, as corporate vice president, she managed marketing, sales, IT, operations, and HR. She honed in on personal care in 2010, as consumer demand for natural... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their paper, "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales," caused a ruckus in the music industry not seen since the British invasion of the Beatles. Many recording executives were not singing "Yeah,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
Care, Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA '06), focus not on how the United States will pay for health care in the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions ensure that there is an equilibrium where all firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
Bastianelli said. Also missing are the partnerships between academic and business communities that are common in the States, added Thomas G. Wellner, executive director of marketing at Eli Lilly and Company's European Operations. The drug... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"
benefits of the degree. As I described in the article “The MBA as a Finance Case” in The Harbus, the bottom line is that the degree quickly pays for itself and more, and alumni typically see increases in long-run compensation of many... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
being influenced by women, yet they weren’t paying attention to what women wanted.” Giving voice to those who aren’t always heard has been a hallmark of Lara’s career. Today, she works as the executive... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
rapidly disappearing, and those who like lording it over others or feeling immune from the rules can no longer get away with it. Status no longer confers a “Get Out of Jail Free” card, as too many indicted and convicted executives have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
shadow financial system. Create a new system for federal and state regulation of mortgages and other consumer credit products. Create executive pay structures that discourage excessive risk taking. Reform... 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
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
going on in the market now that makes that especially true? Amy C. Edmondson and Dr. Howard K. Koh: Market forces continually drive a search for competitive advantage. According to the annual Nielsen survey, about two-thirds of approximately 30,000 respondents... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
As interest in the flat tax grows, the world seems transfixed on an unlikely country, Slovakia, whose 3-year-old tax reform program is paying early dividends. Essentially applying a uniform tax rate on citizens (and sometimes companies)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
most people had the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Today, his 22-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that are available to large and small industry participants... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
in the executive education course The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports. Why did you decide to come to HBS as a student? Like many students, I came to HBS in order to change careers. In college I was focused on becoming a... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
strategy as well as whether she is the right person to continue to lead the organization. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410013-PDF-ENG Executive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace