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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
Tobias Photo courtesy of Harcourt Author and columnist Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) discussed executive pay and American attitudes about compensation in an article in Parade magazine (March 2, 2003), for which... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
Baron: prize winning playwright. Visiting Mr. Green, by Jeff Baron (MBA '78), is a play about the relationship that develops between an elderly widower and the youthful executive who almost kills him while driving recklessly down a... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
the groundwork for committee recommendations. Among them: enhance outreach efforts to promote the benefits of membership, especially among two groups not currently well represented — Executive Education alumni and recent MBA graduates.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
can obscure the amount of pay actually being given to executives. In most cases where we see big excesses, it has to do with compensation committees not holding the line, as Jay noted. They granted packages that ensured their View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Saving the Steel Industry
USW would insist that executive pay be limited and that union representatives serve on the board. “We’re not going to save a company and go back to the old way of doing things,” explained Bloom, who... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
McArthur Hall Dedication
The Canadian flag flew over "Baker beach" under a cloudless, deep blue sky on the afternoon of April 7 for the official dedication of a new Executive Education facility named for the School's seventh Dean, John H. McArthur. Friends and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
arm’ s length, that inherent cronyism makes it difficult to clean house when high-level insiders turn out to be bad apples. A CEO once said to me, “Business is the last monarchy.” All the recent disclosures about the incredible privileges, perks, and power that chief... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Just Rewards
increasing executive remuneration. “It seemed the payouts at the top were massive and they weren’t warranted,” he says. “Meanwhile, 95 percent of the workforce was getting an annual salary increase of inflation plus one percent.” When he... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986
days later, the reality of paying for that education hit.” Raised in a family with modest income, Guth attended public schools and was in the first generation of her family to attend college. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the City... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
president and COO. Thain labeled as “nonsense” the frequently heard claim in Washington that executive pay plans, particularly lavish bonuses, spurred the excessive risk-taking that ultimately led to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
venture, or simply live their extraordinary life as they define it. There are so many ways to execute a mission. Once you do that, the quality of your life changes, and it doesn’t require flipping your world upside down. Just View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
excited for the opportunity, spending three years as a manufacturing manager at Frito-Lay, but apprehensive about the cost of the MBA Program. “Everyone in my neighborhood and my community was so excited and I was just freaking out: ‘How am I going to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
adding that ticket prices can climb to $250 for some high-demand performances. “In the box office, we heard people on the phone shouting to their friend, ‘We pay that for Celtics tickets, we can pay it for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
fellowship funds and annual gifts to the HBS Fund. The average one-year scholarship, typically called a fellowship at HBS, is $43,000, and nearly half of all MBA students benefit from these outright scholarships or grants. Students pay... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
Investments in information technology (IT) are finally beginning to pay off, thanks to the era of the networked computer. So says HBS assistant professor Andrew P. McAfee in an article published in last October's issue of Exec: The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
trying to get on top of it by holding morning and evening standup meetings of the entire executive team, which we’ve continued with to this day. By mid-March we were getting local and federal guidance and trying to figure out what it was... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
In late November, a distinguished group of HBS alumni, faculty, and friends gathered on campus at a celebratory dinner to pay tribute to the legacy of the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33). A leader of industry and a pioneer in business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
AWARD WINNERS: Benjamin Fenton (MBA '00), Iris Chen (MBA/JD '01), and Marc Sternberg (MBA '00) at the HBS Club of Greater New York's annual Leadership Dinner. Recognizing the many accomplishments of senior business executives has always... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
their success in a new environment? Associate Professor Boris Groysberg, with Lex Sant (MBA ’03) and HBS research associate Robin Abrahams, ask this question of professional football teams, and the results offer valuable lessons for star performers and hiring View Details