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- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
consumerism isn't necessarily a win for the planet either, right? Shopping can be helpful in getting the economy back up and running but more products filling our homes is not going to be helpful long-term... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
my own. I actually really enjoyed working for McKinsey because I didn't have to deal with the jammed printer or copy machine. But this was back in 1999. I was leading a pro-bono project for McKinsey working for the Nature Conservancy,... View Details
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T. J. Dermot Dunphy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Transcript (PDF) T. J. Dermot Dunphy, HBS 1956, was recruited by HBS friends Bill Donaldson, Dan Lufkin, and Richard Jenrette, founders of DLJ, to run a business they thought had potential given the right management. The company, Sealed... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
foolish if they're not participating in these perceived changes. Getting Down To Business Palepu: How can we begin to fix some of these problems? Hall: On the issue of executive compensation, "clawback"—forcing executives to pay View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
the United States, which provides the foundation for much of the world’s monetary policy, is exempt from the gravity-like nature of traditional economics in which, as GOlsen said, “Countries can run deficits until they View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the spark plug behind the School’s recent push into entrepreneurship. And behind Stevenson was Dean John McArthur, quietly determined to steer the School into the tempting but elusive field of new ventures, and willing to back people who... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
There is a theme to Dwayne Johnson’s life, and that theme is never settling. Johnson vividly remembers a moment in the mid-90s when he was being driven back home to Tampa, Florida, by his father after getting cut from a Canadian Football... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
just have to be willing to participate with others in the work." "Real estate is the thread that's run through my career," adds Spencer, who most recently served as president of Cogdell Spencer Inc., a publicly traded health care, real... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
learning by doing, because leadership is not just about mastering a body of knowledge. It is translating that knowing into doing, and internalizing and exhibiting the being of leadership. When we look back on FIELD, it can be easy to... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
marketing allocation decisions. Many interesting and useful techniques have been developed over the past 20 years that might be brought to bear in addressing these problems, and we thought it would be great to step back and develop a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
country back to prosperity. Within his first 100 days, Mitsotakis announced to investors the world over that Greece is open for business. And it’s happening, both in the buzz at the Grande Bretagne and on the world stage. Arhodidis, for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
other party ” Questions of national economic interest, he continued, “should take a back seat to questions of individual interest when considering this issue.” Rick Mueller countered this argument. “IP developed in this country is largely... View Details
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Philipp Schäelli
strongly shaped by my path towards discovering what I wanted to do professionally. I came to HBS after my experience in Consulting knowing that I wanted to work more closely with people who were running businesses and that I wanted to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
highly regarded people to lead this prominent joint venture. But just three years later, it was declared a colossal failure. One thing is clear in hindsight: Although the people picked by those companies to run the project were highly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
and leverage the skills and experience of already-accomplished leaders. It will prepare them to make an impact on public life through, for example, leading a cause campaign; establishing a foundation; running for political office as a way... View Details
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Cristiana Torres
business. I think one of the reasons the business failed is that we didn't have a broader perspective on running it. I realized it's important to have the broader view before you funnel your perspective into a specific business."... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500... View Details