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- 01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
both arenas.” Having agreed to a five-year term at Yale, Donaldson returned to Wall Street in 1980 to run his own international investment fund. But when the NYSE came calling in 1990, he couldn’t resist another opportunity to upset the... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
and in some strange way I felt like I even let God down. Like I thought he must have wanted me to keep the company in line with the founder or at least in terms of how you treat people, integrity and all. And so it was just a very, very... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
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Radical Generosity for the Real World
thoughts about giving. Campbell: Yes, that was another profound experience. So yes, our church had made a $1,000 investment in 1970 that became a $1.6 million windfall, in 2014. And so the very first thing our church did with that money was to tithe, which in biblical... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?
equivalent of taking about 40,000 vehicles off the road in terms of reducing the emissions, which is incredible, and that’s just at our little size of a dozen restaurants. So if we’re able to scale this, the opportunity is so large, and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Darden worked for nearly 25 years before retiring in 2008. His service to HBS continued in the form of two, three-year terms (1995–2000) as a member of the School’s Visiting Committee. As the first African American woman to graduate from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
systems, arts groups — typically have access to other resources.” The Bridgespan Group is experiencing the effects of the explosive growth in the nonprofit world. “There is tremendous demand for our services based on the dramatic expansion of the nonprofit sector both... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
countries; and across all countries cooperating in anti– money laundering efforts, harmonization of predicate offenses (i.e., agreement as to what crimes’ proceeds shall fall under anti–money laundering laws). “Having the beneficial parties to a transaction sign, under... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Their infrastructure, in terms of transportation (roads) and communication (broadband internet and cell phone service), is more limited. And they are relatively inaccessible: If you live in Harlan and want to hop a plane, for instance,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
assistance of coworkers. The changes were designed to enhance safety and reliability, but the intervention had the unintended consequence of changing the way many of these men behaved and thought about themselves. In your paper, you use the View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Books
proposes a mindset that will help executives to expand and grow their businesses in the new international economy and describes strategies that come to terms with the realities of globalization and technological change. Mills, the Alfred... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business
families. By viewing this widespread activity through the lens and logic of markets — and daring to define it in terms of supply, demand, and property rights — Spar aims to bring realism and thoughtful public-policy debate to a subject... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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subjective quality of “charisma,” which is often equated with leadership ability. The newly annointed CEO is the able to wield great leverage in negotiating terms of employment, a situation that contributes to burgeoning CEO... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
return on investment won’t conveniently happen in one election cycle. Your research looks at the various ways that stimulus funds can go astray. Could you give an example? You tend to see two big classes of problems in terms of money not... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
But that being said, when I talk to people throughout the country who are dealing with these issues every day, we've still got so far to go. Hanna: And if we were to fast forward, say, 10 years, what are some of the changes you would hope to see in the workplace, in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
employer (1,100 workers) and biggest taxpayer ($500 million and counting). “If we treated the Afghans with respect, it would create a brand loyalty and empathy they’d never had a chance to experience before,” Khoja says of the company’s initial, basic strategy. “In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
feeling like, 'So what?'" someone else comments. * Note: The term "international" in this article refers to individuals who were born outside the United States and are not permanent U.S. residents. According to HBS officials, only those... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
convertible preferred stock? Why do they stage the commitment of capital? Why do they intervene and try to be helpful—or in some cases, screw things up? “So our thinking got sharper. Yes, from whom you raise money can be as important as the terms—but the View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past
“shtetl-specific” model, referring to the Yiddish term for a small Jewish town. “We start by generating a surname frequency list,” he says. “In this way, we are able to appeal to the personal interests of an individual genealogist or... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken