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- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
management, specialization of financial intermediation, and marketing methods. The contributors—leaders in business, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector—discuss new research and ideas about the future of credit markets,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
even value-destructive practices in order to maintain it or inflate it further? And does anyone really believe that shareholders are the only constituency that matters: not customers, not employees, not the community or the country or... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
chances that their agents will act in the organization's (or owners') interests, and compensation is one of the levers they can use. Agency theory is an extremely useful lens through which to examine situations where there is a divergence between managerial and View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
have been hitting best-seller lists lately, and conferences on spirituality and business have been springing up all over the United States and Canada. Web sites dedicated to such topics now pepper the Internet. Even the World Economic Forum devoted a session at its... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
presents special strategic and tactical challenges. (See the sidebar "Linked Negotiations" for descriptions of three categories of such talks.) This article focuses on "birds in the bush"—situations in which, like Jim,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
meeting with critics. One CEO of the new, humbler variety published a dialogue with a customer who questioned high prices in the company newsletter, replete with pointed attacks, some of which he admitted he couldn’t answer well. Status... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
of her government. She understands that corruption is crippling the country. My job is exciting — exhilarating, even. Every day, I deal with people who are shaping the country’s future. I meet world-class scientists who wouldn’t give me... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
incremental revenue for an airline with $3 billion in gross revenue. After serving as senior vice president of marketing for Continental Airlines, Brierley returned to his entrepreneurial roots in 1985 to start a consulting firm View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
GuthrieHarvard Business School Case 411-023 Mekong Capital, a private equity firm specializing in investing in Vietnam, had grown dramatically since its inception in 2002 and faced numerous organizational issues in 2007. There was a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
focus of negotiators to aspects of the situation that generate helpful insights. Level Two Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its 'Behind the Table' Challenges Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 29, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
business in other languages and cultures. While both law and business were of interest to me in college, the importance of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach became clear in my first job after graduation during a meeting in Mexico... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
is a particular need for managers to be entrepreneurial in spirit, to view business from a global perspective, and to know how to use information technology to their companies' best advantage. To meet this challenge, in the past few years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
recently announced Klarman Hall convening center are key elements of an ambitious campus master planning effort—one driven by practical, strategic goals developed to support curriculum innovations. “One of the things that makes this a truly View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
have a seemingly insatiable need for good managers, one that will only grow in the years to come. To meet that demand, business schools around the world turn out about 500,000 MBAs a year, with upwards of 150,000 of those in the United... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of 10‐year sustainability‐related goals. In an effort to meet such goals, the company invested a total of $1 billion in environmentally beneficial products such as new seeds and traits in Dow's AgroSciences business, solar shingles, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
resides with his wife, Jane, and their two sons in Mazda’s home city of Hiroshima, four hours south of Tokyo by bullet train. Says Fields:“Mazda has deep roots in Hiroshima. Generations of local people have given our company a truly View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
eighteen-year exercise in volunteer service at the HBS Club of Greater New York, where Burton and Dick Wedemeyer (MBA '63) would meet twice a month to assist alumni with job and career issues. "Often," recalls Burton, "these men and women... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
firm was confident that it and the current management could work together to revamp the fortunes of China's leading electronic retailer. However, it did not anticipate the power Huang had behind bars. As the majority shareholder, Huang managed to manipulate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
take on leadership responsibilities when delivering care. Evidence suggests that effective clinical leadership yields superior clinical outcomes. However, few residency programs systematically teach all residents how to lead, and many clinicians are inadequately... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
company, the European beverage division of Cadbury Schweppes. As they wait to meet with the CEO, they revisit their assumptions on the deal and review the insights that informed their valuation. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace