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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
impressive and influential list of participants. "We focused the dialogue on the right issues, and we had the right people there," said McFarlan. "Without our office in Hong Kong, we would not have been able... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (MBA ’86) (Knopf) Calling the oppression of women and girls in the developing world today’s most pervasive human rights violation, the authors tell stories of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Right now the United States has a competitive advantage; however, that advantage can narrow as the rest of the world catches up or as we become complacent. I think that as individual countries try to catch up, they will become more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
legal nonprofit. I quickly learned, however, that my accomplishments did not shield me from feeling like an outsider during my RC year. HBS Dean Nitin Nohria was right when he recently said that even in a community that can pride itself... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
to occur so that fans feel safe and trust the property that's bringing them into that venue, so that they'll come back. And we've already seen some fans who are like, "I'm never coming back." And some fans are saying, "Well, if you do the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
and that these user-innovators, thanks to the Internet, can go through an iterative process much more quickly and cheaply than was true in the past. So, how do you encourage customer-driven innovation and capture some of that value? First, consider the question of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
surprise “Keep America Rolling” zero-percent financing campaign on GM vehicles to keep GM's, and its suppliers', production lines rolling in the face of an unprecedented national crisis. Rick's quick and decisive action against conventional wisdom did View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
industry: labor organizing. For decades, noncompete clauses were written into job contracts to help protect companies from losing intellectual property by restricting when and where employees could work... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
for those whose adjustable rates have skyrocketed? These are small steps in the right direction, but they do not address the problems of those whose impaired credit is keeping them from refinancing or exiting from troubled mortgages. To... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
put luggage on wheels and they changed the nature of how people travel. Now I drag it around. Those were two things that existed, right? It wasn't a new technology. It wasn't some new intellectual property... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while supporting rising living standards for the average American. View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
early to commercialize it," says Anquetil. "The company was not a great success." He knew he was missing something: formal business training. "I had picked up some knowledge along the way, but I wanted the right knowledge," he says. "HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
about companies in terms of ‘distinctive competencies,’ charting a path that diverged from the thinking of their intellectual forebears — who resisted theoretical thinking — toward a more systematic approach.” By the mid-1960s,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
respective offices, where overflowing in-boxes, back-to-back meetings, and the impromptu international trip are the order of the day, Busch, Bourneuf, and Broom reflected on their four-day sabbatical in the quiet halls of academe. Busch points to the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
Sites Program, which helps New York’s churches and synagogues renovate interiors, replace roofs, and restore stained glass windows. “It’s the only nonprofit in the nation that tries to meet the needs of historic religious properties on a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
as doctoral candidates, our MBA alumni are particularly well suited to ask and answer the big questions tied to the real world of practice. They combine an ambition for big, relevant ideas with an intellectual curiosity and rigor.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter well. Perhaps more so than with any other economist, it is Schumpeter’s language, concepts, and intellectual architecture that business schools and businesspeople use today to define and understand what they do. Indeed, McCraw... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
providers also faced reductions in jobs and pay. Another piece of the puzzle was the Scranton taxpayer, with a proposed 3.8 percent millage rate increase in property taxes. Even so, the district would need to borrow $4.1 million to make... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
leveraged, interconnected, and therefore vulnerable to shocks; inadequate rule of law and protection for property rights and contracts; underperforming education systems; massive internal and international... View Details