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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and political outrage. Pitchfork... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Here's a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed "too big to fail," hasn't it implicitly guaranteed similar largesse for all such institutions in the future? In its rush... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Illustration by John Kachik Depending on which business school ranking you consult, the best MBA program in 2010 was at the University of Chicago, HBS, the London Business School, or Stanford University. Among the five leading media rankings, HBS fell no lower than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class, and one of your first customers,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin and Porter: HBS alumni are in a position to help put America back on a more competitive footing in the world economy. View the survey results Watch Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin introduce the project Join the conversation Read a special issue of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
ROOFTOP GARDEN: HBS project manager Kevin Ruby surveys Shad Hall’s newly planted perennials. Photographs by Neal Hamberg When it came time to replace the leaky roof on Shad Hall — runners joked of dodging buckets placed on the indoor track to catch ceiling drips — the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the wage gap between the United... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Visit Dean Nohria's page Watch Dean Nohria at Fall Reunion (LEFA login required) Fresh out of a highly competitive engineering school in Mumbai, 22-year-old Nitin Nohria aspired to pursue his interest in business, earn an MBA in America, then return home to become an... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
Photos by Webb Chappell Related Links Who Was George F. Baker? Priscilla Anderson demonstrating photo conservation techniques. Stepping into the workaday world of Priscilla Anderson is like taking a step back in time. While most professionals spend their days tethered... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos of Japan. Both lead hugely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results. Money spent doesn’t reliably... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
Roberts Illustration by PJ Loughran Carter Roberts (MBA ’88) traces his enchantment with nature back to his early childhood in Atlanta, where he roamed a backyard forest and discovered a fascinating world of creatures under rotting logs. “Ask any conservationist to... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the names associated with this surge... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case Reimagining the MBA Related Links... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
What’s the first adjective that comes to mind when you hear the word centennial? Be honest. I bet it’s not fun, or entertaining, or cool. Now get ready for a surprise. The Knowledge and Library Services folks at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center have launched a fun,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Allawi Illustration by Jack Unruh After spending much of his adult life in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, London-based businessman Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) couldn’t say no to an old friend who called to offer him a Cabinet-level position — minister of trade... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
Less than 20 percent of new businesses last five years. Despite those daunting odds, three MBAs from the Class of 1998 are among the elite who succeeded, and their stories make compelling reading in a new book. Former Washington Post reporter Bill Murphy Jr. tried his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
adjacent communities because all flights using it will land and take off over water. When will the new runway be available for service? Barring any other issues in the courts, which we don’t expect, we’re probably going to start construction this summer. We’ll be up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
inefficient automobile sector, and we tried to prop it up through the 1970s with tons of money. In the end, it failed, and what’s left of car manufacturing in Britain is almost entirely foreign-owned. — Roger View Details