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- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
manufacturing businesses. After describing the nitty-gritty details of scraping together the firm's first purchase in a post-September 11th economy, Williams highlighted a few key takeaways for aspiring entrepreneurs: "In a democracy, your downside is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
he had to fend off impeachment. Had Martha Stewart and Rajat Gupta admitted their roles in insider trading, they could have plea bargained, moved past their ethical lapses, and possibly avoided prison time. Had Best Buy founder Richard... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
How HBS Changed My Life
I intentionally use the word escape because Nigeria, to me, was like a prison – an emotional, psychological, physical, and intellectual prison. Consider this, I always felt like I was one mistake away from a whooping from my teachers; as... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
Fund has outperformed the S&P 500 by a 1.2 percent annual average return, she said Amy Domini Her firm uses some 100 criteria in judging a potential investment. Immediate knockouts would be companies involved in power, alcohol, nuclear weapons, gambling, for-profit... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Stern School of Business. She studies the psychology of good people, or “bounded ethicality”. Dolly teaches MBA courses in leadership, management, and negotiations. Additionally, she has taught at a men’s prison through the NYU View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
like to have dinner with. What’s your favorite Johnny Cash song? “Why are you always making me choose just one! So many great songs by Johnny Cash, like God’s Gonna Cut You Down, Hurt, The Mercy Seat, Ring of Fire, and Folsum Prison... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
Richards, the former global head of Computer Associates, while Richards was doing time in prison for securities fraud. (The correspondence led to the case study A Letter From Prison.) Listening To The Field Ethan Bernstein discussed the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Once they placed their order, customers had to wait ten years to receive it. Finally, Bajaj, whose grandfather had been known as the "fifth son" of Mahatma Gandhi and whose parents and grandparents had spent time in British prisons for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
the relationship between incarceration, employment, and entrepreneurship (including self-employment). He has a particular interest in the fate of the more than 600,000 people in the United States who return home from prison each year,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
digital revolution has improved health care delivery and discovery. Digital Transformation of Health Care I think there will be enormous consumer backlash if we limp back to the old days when you could only get access to telemedicine if you were in a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
is a devastating disease that leaves cognitive abilities intact, but robs people of their ability to move, essentially making them prisoners in their own bodies,” Blum says. “The therapeutic hypothesis with tirasemtiv relates to slowing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
get lawyers and, of course, international awareness of what was going on with the trial. And then after they were sentenced and sent to Siberian labor camps, the issue was clothing, food. Hiring local lawyers so that they were monitored and so that the View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
their former oppressors. Instead, Mandela invited the warden of his Robben Island prison to his inauguration as South Africa's first black president. Modern South Africa, for all its problems, is a democratic state with a growing economy.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
that he was only the second member of the public she had ever seen concerned about the agency’s proceedings on grid security; the first had been a federal prisoner and therefore unable to attend meetings in person. As regulators and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Lawyers for former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (MBA ’79) argued that his 2006 conviction on nineteen counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors — along with his 24-year View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
billion, increasing its value by more than 60 times along the way. But Kozlowski went to prison on fraud charges in 2005, and the portfolio was slowly unwound under his successor. Now in 2016, Tyco was to disappear. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Stockdale, former vice presidential candidate, naval officer, and prisoner of war, said leaders must balance both realism and optimism in their messaging. In a POW camp, Stockdale said, it was the optimists who perished first—those who... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
separation, courage, and transformation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time—or lynching—for violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s Black father and white... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
arguably within reason when balanced against the value created in a successful reorganization. Chapter 11 isn't perfect. Just as not every hospital patient is cured or every prison inmate rehabilitated, not every sick company that enters... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
and said: “We have a shortage of skilled construction workers in America. There can be a three-month wait for a plumber! We must train our young people - even those who might have been in prison - to be plumbers and welders and... View Details