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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success by Thomas J. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press) DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice, lays out the roots of high achievers’ anxiety (fear of being wrong, lack of a sense of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
from local and regional forces rather than from multinational corporations. Corruption is the “oil and glue” of the system in much of Latin America. Reform will come from the private, not public, sector. Asia Business Conference... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
doesn’t know how to do it, or doesn’t have the capacity to do it, even before you get into problems of corruption and so forth. So these entrepreneurs roll up their sleeves, and the heart surgeon Shetty is a great example. He wants to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to create and maintain a defensive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance. The latest chapter of the Enron... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
corruption found in many of the countries it helps. “Education is the pathway out of poverty,” he says. “We believe in God, integrity, peacemaking. Character is extremely important. We don’t want to train smarter View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
people while visiting 34 diverse countries—places without available medical care, where corruption and poverty have ruled, and where armed people are part of the daily scene. In the Philippines, strangers tried to kidnap me. I was robbed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
corruption and mismanagement that have dominated the headlines are not pervasive,” she says. But given all the negative publicity, she adds, “I’m worried about the pipeline of talent. It’s harder to find good people who want to be CEOs or... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
by strong-arming others. Many write it off as inherently corrupt or “dirty” and want nothing to do with it. But as pioneering researchers Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro deftly show in Power, for All, power is the ability to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
McNerney: It’s all about being globally competitive and creating U.S. jobs. Illustration by Andy Friedman Related Links The Path to Economic Revival Making Their Way Squawk Box at HBS - Jim McNerney, Dean Nitin Nohria, and University Professor Michael Porter discuss... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
cycling. But to be perfectly frank, the sport was so deeply corrupted by doping, I ultimately concluded it was something I didn’t want to be a part of. I went a more traditional route: consulting. The sport has been very much challenged... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 07 Mar 2013
- News
Private firms playing major role against cyberattacks
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
is beginning to understand the importance of the issue,” says Gisholt. The country’s former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, was executed for corruption in early July. He was convicted of taking approximately... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
and were almost stormed by the villagers,” Khoja says. Baksheesh—a word that encompasses charitable giving, tipping, and bribery—is another cultural norm in Afghanistan. A 2013 Transparency International report ranked Afghanistan in a three-way tie, with North Korea... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
entrepreneurs who are creating an agricultural and IT powerhouse that is attracting the attention of the rest of the world, while corruption has been replaced with reforms and business deregulation that the West would be envious of,” he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
clean energy technology, and customer demand for products and services. Another case looks at Norsk Gjenvinning, Norway’s largest supplier of recycling and environmental services, which was purchased by a private equity fi rm in 2012. Upon discovering rampant View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
different employers over the course of his writing career. For now, Dick says he loves working on The Good Wife, which stars Julianna Margulies as a lawyer building a new life and career after her husband, a State’s Attorney, is implicated in a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Sharon Patrick
Sharon L. Patrick draws a bright line between the financials of a business and its architecture — its economics and business model. It’s the latter that tells her what makes the financials tick and drives her particular interest in media ventures. “The high fixed costs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African... View Details