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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
deep experience across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors who is the founder and chairman of FOMEPADE, a financial institution that offers consumer and housing credit. “The fact that we could actually talk to the people and look... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
in 1995 after a successful Wall Street career. In a unanimous board vote last fall, he became only the third Bank president to be reappointed to a second five-year term. Excerpts from his speech, "The Challenges Facing the World Bank in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
create value for shareholders and society alike. That worked in many cases. But some executives who were loaded up with stock options succumbed to the temptation to “game” a financial-markets inefficiency, inefficiencies caused by... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Committee, where he raised more money than any other member, Weinberg launched a long series of relationships with occupants of the White House that would continue for more than thirty-five years. Almost everybody on Wall Street voted... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
intellectual agility one develops at HBS is very helpful in this part of the world." Observes HBS associate professor Robert E. Kennedy, who is conducting research on high-tech clusters in emerging markets, "Some of the institutions... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
all millennials park their money at the three largest banks. It’s a disconnect that he finds “viscerally aggravating,” given that those institutions have bankrolled the fossil-fuel industry—and, with it, the carbon emissions that are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy.... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
relief support to those affected by the earthquakes. “We rushed to the aid of our people by activating all of our means, in coordination with the relevant public institutions and organizations,” writes Şen. “A total of 531 of our trained... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
I want to show my support for an institution that has made and will continue to make a valuable contribution to management practice all over the world," says Andreas Andresen (69th AMP), a retired German industrialist who recently became... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and resells it at market rates to consumers. Working Assets takes the equivalent of 1 percent of each person's phone bill and enters it into a nonprofit donation pool that goes each year to a rotating roster of sixty nonprofits voted on... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
great-grandfather. Macridis sat in on meetings with the SYRIZA government early in 2015 and saw the writing on the wall. “I found them unrealistic and hostile to what for-profit institutions need,” he says. Chryssafidis, one of the 10... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader educational trends) had waned, and the School's "curriculum" in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
challenges, should business stay in its comfort zone and focus on increasing shareholder value, as many would argue? Fortunately, some businesses can do good simply by doing well, as General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) pointed... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Rewarding the Top Dog The media, institutional investors, and even government officials all seem to have an opinion about CEO compensation, often criticizing how and how much top executives are paid. But do CEOs really dictate their own... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
individual citizens are protected. Tracing governmental involvement in risk management to the early 19th century, Moss shows how government institutions have served to promote capitalism and economic growth by shifting risk from View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
J.R. Klein Oxford University Press In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization is increasingly under the microscope. The view that the reversal of globalization and a return to protectionism and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
coral reefs, oceans, rivers, and deserts. (See a map at www.worldwildlife.org/wildplaces.) To accomplish this goal by 2015, the WWF will work to reshape global markets, policies, and institutions to ensure a sustainable future for nature... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
business is to make money and maximize shareholder value. She shows that we have failed to reimagine capitalism as not only an engine of prosperity, but also a system in harmony with environmental realities, striving for social justice... View Details