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  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

New Magazine Makes Its Mark

list exists. But several efforts to compile such a list are under way, a development Nelson and Phillips eagerly await. As circulation and ad revenue continue to grow, the publishing duo expect to achieve a milestone this year: They’ll finally take home a salary. —... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Bookmarks; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 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
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 18 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

and his priorities for the coming years. The following is an edited version of his remarks. Roger Thompson: You have deep and long-standing connections to HBS, both as a student and as a faculty member. Were there any surprises once you... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Making a Difference

the phone’s camera at the graphic and snap an image. The decoder will translate the bar code and redirect you to the target Web site. We’ve placed four mobile bar codes in this issue. To experiment, start with this one. It will take you to a video of Professor Lawrence... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta
  • 13 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare system is dysfunctional, a Rube... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

A Life by Design

As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an industrial designer who worked for the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Start-Ups "R" Us

As we wrapped up our writing assignments for this issue, I was struck by how many stories dealt with the same topic: entrepreneurship. The articles themselves aren’t big, but what they say about HBS is. The heady dream of starting and running a business is alive and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta
  • 04 Aug 2010
  • News

A Lonely Crusader

We’ve all read stories about those rare individuals who saw the financial crisis coming and profited handsomely from their contrarian insights. Add to that list of contrarians hedge fund manager Bill Ackman (MBA ’92), whose six-year crusade to expose the financial... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Real Estate
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Too Big To Fail

Illustration by David Plunkert 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... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Perception versus Reality

story. Mike Cassidy (MBA ’91) alone has four. Since graduating, he has launched and sold four tech companies, earning him the sobriquet “Start-Up King of Silicon Valley” (see article). His advice to would-be entrepreneurs: “Don’t hesitate to jump in.” Given this... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; contests; awards; meta
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Security Chief

Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business. Anything available? When you... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the future of the degree it... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
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