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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
and wealth creation. Though prohibited by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, redlining had lasting implications—as did related real estate practices such as blockbusting, which encouraged white flight by playing on fears of racial integration,... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
selling them. The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Naa-Sakle Akuete (MBA 2014), CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in villages without electricity and therefore lack access to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
management. The authors provide first-hand accounts of M&A transactions that they led or were involved in, assessing each from an insider perspective and outlining the key success factors and pitfalls. The book concludes with practical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
the best location to start a business, assemble the necessary resources, adapt to local environments, and execute for success. Creating Value through International Strategy edited by Africa Arino, Pankaj Ghemawat, and Joan E. Ricart... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
decide, for example, when to disclose plans for the merger, what restrictions to place on insider use of information, what counts as fair and proper accounting and taxation, and how to treat employees who... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
things was unfair and would not hold up to outside scrutiny. Most people agree that companies should be fair and that everybody should have a chance to succeed. The hard part is figuring out how to make that happen and actually doing the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. The company's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist concept of fairness and also stresses product quality, the value of the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of accounting rules and regulations. What’s more,... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
The Lines That Divide America
fair process they had come to expect, is increasingly aiding and abetting these line-cutters.” Nohria argues that feelings are equally strong among people with means, who see their own hard work, creativity, and sacrifices as... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
particularly interested in branding, luxury marketing, symbolic consumption, consumer self-control, and fairness and ethics in marketing. A member of the faculty since 2007, she currently teaches the second-year MBA course Luxury... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
(Thinkstock/Getty Images) Robo-advisors, like Betterment and Wealthfront, are built for millennials-automated asset management for those with lower account balances or an aversion to traditional financial advisors. Silicon Valley has... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
employees, Stuckey moved to a formula-based allocation that took into account both need and project execution rate. “In other words, if your netbook value was very low, as a percentage of your fixed assets,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
needed. In his working paper, "Sustainability and the Firm," HBS associate professor Forest L. Reinhardt draws on the economics and accounting literature in developing a two-part test for sustainability that makes sense from an economic... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
author of Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay. A business leader, entrepreneur, and consultant throughout her career, Ferracone, prior to launching Farient, led the Human Capital... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
collateral business. For long-term strategy, the company is weighing two options. One, invest in expanding their client base and extending it beyond the sports market, targeting all kinds of community events like fairs and festivals. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take Leadership and Corporate View Details