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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
You're only as good as your job title? Apparently so, if you're the director of a major company. A corporate governance precept currently in vogue calls for outside directors to offer to resign if they change (or lose) their jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
reviews throughout the years indicated that overall product quality remained consistent post-merger. "Though goods become more similar, they do not consistently increase or decrease in quality level," Sheen writes in the paper,... View Details
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Industry overviews
NetAdvantage: useful for industries dominated by public companies. Most reports are US-focused, although there are a few global reports. You can also access the archive of industry reports going back to the late 1990s.... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
prices reflect substantially all publicly available information, and buyers can see which companies provide good value for the money. By establishing trust in the information, this system has lowered the cost of capital and enabled better... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
ordinary citizens have the ability to shift the balance of power in positive ways that can encourage innovative ideas to be developed into practical goods and services. "Washington, DC does not have a monopoly on the best... View Details
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Managing Global Operations
> Editor's choice to begin a search. The CEIC's current country economy snapshot is also a good starting point. Also includes company, and industry information from sources for emerging markets in Africa, Asia,... View Details
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Austin Boral Archives | Social Enterprise
Enterprise Social Enterprise Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Civic Roundtable: Celebrating View Details
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Madeleine Smith Archives | Social Enterprise
Enterprise Social Enterprise Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Civic Roundtable: Celebrating View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The People’s Pods
podcasters—James Allworth (MBA 2010) and Roben Farzad (MBA 2005)—weigh in. HBS: Why did it take so long for the form to find its footing? Allworth's Aha moment RF: Technology. All that stodgy equipment you’d have to go to a public radio... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
amazingly stimulating peer group. Almost without exception, they were well traveled, well read, visually literate, and extremely demanding. They were also opportunistic and flexible. Two good illustrations: (1) Despite bike and backpack,... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect
and wastewater-service provider in the Philippines, and has invested over $1.5 billion in water and wastewater facilities since 1997. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, also vice chairman of Manila Water, sees private operation of a public... View Details
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Caroline Fay Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance New Venture Competition Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public... View Details
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Margaret Busse Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance New Venture Competition Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
playbook, but it has cultivated an additional source of revenue: the sale of conservation easements. Lyme Timber buys pieces of land targeted by conservation groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land, which pay... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
Is there a method to their madness, investing in what has been widely characterized as a dying business? Of course there are plausible explanations for their purchases that have nothing to do with economics. Their motives might include both the View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
governments take on a smart city project, it's often the private sector that's left to execute the vision—sometimes at the expense of good public policy. Green Businesses Are Incredibly Difficult to Make... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
that has redefined commerce. Since stepping down from eBay last spring, Whitman’s focus now lies in the public and social sectors. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, the two-year-old private company had thirty employees and $4.7... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
he is at odds with the theories of economist Mancur Olson, whose 1965 book, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, sparked a generation of political scientists and regulation... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details
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Session Types | Information Technology
team events, and more. No session is too big or too small to be considered a good fit, it simply needs to be engaging. Case discussions Executive Education Professional development Speaker series Reunion activities Interactive meetings... View Details