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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
conference in December 2008, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told several hundred prominent board members that he couldn’t conceive of how they might do their jobs successfully:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
bankruptcy court protection in November 2008 despite high advance demand for its planes. In January, a judge approved the sale of Eclipse’s assets to Eclipse Jet Aviation International, an affiliate of Luxembourg-based European Technology... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
values - of identifying them, communicating them, demanding compliance to them, and living them. Wagoner: Be on top of your business and know what's going on. If you don't know how you're making money, you could be in for a big surprise.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
FedEx for shipping some of their products, driving up demand from three packages a day to thirty. It was enough to save the company. FedEx’s strategy in these early years was simple: deliver time-sensitive packages with speed and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
they were disproportionately coming from Chelsea, Revere, and East Boston. I think in this case the social determinants include living in crowded housing conditions, where the ventilation and air quality are not as good and which seems to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
to try the drug at a friend’s house hops in the shower first. Looking down, she sees blood running in the water and, screaming, turns to confront a future version of her meth-addicted self, emaciated and covered with sores. (A 2012 study... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
shines on White House honorees - illuminated these issues, and their HBS champions, in high relief. It was an indication of how much these matters have come to the fore. At a February 11 awards ceremony and daylong program of events in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Tucson and then stop by my house in my cul-de-sac and drop off two boxes of ingredients and drive back to Phoenix. And I started these backyard parties with that wood-fired oven to build my skill, but I also began to meet people. And it... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
dating from 1840 to 1895, housed in Baker Library’s Historical Collections. Probably not the first thing you’d pick up for beach reading. Yet once the eyes adjust, a lost world opens up. Much like ours, it’s driven by human strivings... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
popular demand and voiced the hope that "no alumnus will be so overwhelmed with modesty that he will fail to send in items of interest about himself." Further changes were announced in 1941 when Assistant Dean Luther G. Holbrook (MBA '36)... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
leadership of Professor Jim Cash in whose honor we named Cash House on the campus. And Jim has helped us assemble a phenomenal advisory board. And the board consists of individuals like Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, Ken Chenault, the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
have a three-year-old and a demanding job, but at the end of the day, staying healthy is my job number one. But I would be lying, if I didn't tell you I had ups and downs. And for me, stress is a trigger and as I have periods of stress, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
iron ore among them—found a growing market as China's demands grew with its economy. And because Brazil had done the hard work of building a better policy foundation, the boom meant sustained economic growth. So while other Latin American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That task falls, by law, to corporate boards, clubby groups that are widely criticized as the handpicked “captives” of self-serving management. With White View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
U.S. economy, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to energize you and give you a sense of accomplishment.” Jana Kirlin Brownell From a Historic Manufacturing City, a Family Company Brings USA Lighting to the World Brownell: The ambience at the Detroit Opera View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
jet-powered airliners. The growing requirement for more factory space was fueled by new models and a surging worldwide demand for air travel. Massive construction projects were launched, including a new factory on 760 acres at Paine Field... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes the election was flawed, it can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
logistical coordination with city officials on issues such as parking and access to Dallas’s light rail system. Responding to constant demands for information and decisions can be stressful, she admits, but the challenges are inspiring.... View Details