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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
Luiza Helena initiated a reorganization that replaced family members with professional management and launched a campaign to reinforce the company’s mission to serve customers and employees. Despite the volatile nature of the Brazilian... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
volatility equity derivatives. Now retired, he divides his time between South Florida and Nantucket, Massachusetts. “HBS helped me clarify what I wanted to do and gave me a big confidence boost. It also provided me with frameworks for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
women and meant the difference between survival and starvation for dozens of families. Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL by Roger L. Martin (MBA '81) (Harvard Business Review Press) Martin lays the blame for the stock... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
the kitchen but the job also was a chance to escape a brutish stepfather at home. Alas, not long after he started, he was abruptly fired by a volatile cook. Despondent to the point of desperation, Puck says, “a light went on in my brain:... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
of this book is that the volatility through the messy middle of any project is about achieving a positive slope. Your job is to manage the lows and maintain a focus on optimizing the highs.” CLASSIC Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
website is a public good provided by HBS,” says Jones, “and its success will be measured by the extent to which diverse researchers make use of it.” He credits the project with showing how successful businesses emerged from volatile... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
inadequate and costly telecommunications, income and education disparities, and corruption. Add to that a history of political and economic volatility and one begins to understand that entrepreneurship is as much a required tool of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a potential hedge against the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
on supply and demand than they do on crises in the Gulf. Even if we solved the immediate crisis in Iraq, then what? Terrorism is a global issue that will take years to address. In the investment world, I think an invasion would further fuel the high level of View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
flexibility, and leverage to topple the Goliath Microsoft. Yet the drama unfolding in court - not to mention the announcement, as this issue of the Bulletin goes to press, that America Online Inc. plans to acquire Netscape in an industry-shaking $4 billion deal -... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early 2008), they were very concerned about the volatility and fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
theoretical insight and pragmatic tools that address the decisions facing senior managers in multinational corporations. Collis explores the critical differences between domestic and international competition: the heterogeneity of markets in which companies are... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
meeting unprecedented demand: The furniture industry, used to 2 percent to 4 percent annual growth, Sundy says, has seen that climb to between 30 percent and 40 percent. “The question now is, How do you manage a business through the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Business, along with members of the Greater Chicago/Midwestern high-tech business community, into closer contact with industry leaders at the HBS conference. “The volatility of the Nasdaq over the last year has not been lost on the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Lessons from Financial Crises in Asia and Latin America." With the response of international lending agencies to the volatile Asian markets a prime topic of the day, the remarks of one high-ranking official, Shigemetsu Sugisaki, deputy... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
With its ability to hold steady and provide a regular return, rather than bounce around in time with the volatile stock market, music also starts to look more attractive as a non-correlated risk. The extra yield is especially appealing to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
someone that can buy the company. There's less proven exit markets. Second, in more emerging market contexts, there are more macroeconomic shocks and the volatility that comes with that. Then third is this culture of entrepreneurship that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
many factors including technology, climate change, demographics and inequality. Such extreme change is throwing up unprecedented opportunities and creating an ‘adaptive challenge’ for individuals, organizations and societies. Those who can adapt to a fast-flowing,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
the lives of two men on a past polar expedition by traveling thirty miles without stopping to eat or sleep.... Here is a key insight for modern leaders: hire for attitude, train for skill. Shackleton understood that the more volatile and... View Details