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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
community, see this new government as the now-or-never chance to finally set the country on solid footing. But Mitsotakis is clear that his goal is not growth at any cost, and it’s not just about business interests: To truly transform... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
the most experienced voices at HBS—Bill George, Krishna Palepu, Rakesh Khurana, and Lorsch himself—to address the challenges of governance and the role of corporate boards in wrestling with critical issues like CEO View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
“I showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, 'I can kill someone with this ring.' He put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out.” —New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), on the 2005 disappearance of his $25,000 Super... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
sportswriter Brian Phillips wrote in the New York Times. “The next thing I want to see from United States soccer is a jackhammer, not a news conference.” “It was heartbreaking,” says Carlos Cordeiro (MBA 1980), who at the time was vice president of US Soccer, the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
Armstrong World Industries, Black & Decker, Nasdaq, and Nordstrom. Recent corporate scandals have only strengthened her belief in the importance of sound governance. "It is my experience that good governance can contribute to better... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
own businesses and is now director of the Auckland International Airport and chair of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. “Measuring performance in charity is as important as in a commercial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These phenomena can have a catastrophic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
received a boost from Russia’s launching of a space satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. This was a shock because Russia’s scientific prowess was not taken seriously at the time. The United States committed to putting a man on the moon in the next decade. View Details
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Skooter, his wife of sixty years, as she accompanied him on work-related trips to foreign countries. A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry by David H. Gaylin (MBA 1979) (Business Expert Press) At their best, the View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
was the deregulation of industries in which competition had traditionally been held in check by government rules, as in airlines, banking, and telecommunications. The second consisted of the ever-widening effect of new technologies,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2002, Wally Eamer (MBA 1979) took a job that no one really wanted: Trying to broker peace between logging companies, environmentalists, First Nations and the government... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
professional athletes, the top performers in any industry — make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about pay-for-performance is that pay packages had no built-in control for the general rise in all stock... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
thought it would allow me to have a direct impact for a while.” The interesting business model that attracted Gibbons to NIB was also the organization’s weak point only a few years earlier. As a nonprofit organization established by the federal View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Kennedy School of Government as well as a dozen other leading universities from across the country. The program was built around six sessions, each focusing on a central theme of importance in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
Hundreds of first-year students played a key role in this year’s Alumni Achievement Award ceremonies as they, along with this year’s five award winners, took part in a case discussion in Burden Hall in September. The case, “Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley,” dealt with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
systemic risk regulator, there’s no guarantee of satisfactory performance based on recent history. Indeed, a litany of government regulatory failures fills the minority response to the Congressional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
my generation. It’s not about passing more laws. We need to have new leadership of our companies and the boards that govern them. I describe the kind of person we ought to have as an authentic leader who is genuine and trustworthy. What... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities
preparing for and responding to crises, and investing in the future. Citizens expect mayors to perform at the highest level, but being a public executive—like any other job—is a learning experience. Yet once mayors are sworn into office,... View Details
- 13 May 2025
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If I Knew Then
actually is a little bit different than just solving for being a high performer, getting a good performance rating every year and getting promoted every two or three years. And you can easily be convinced that you’re on the right... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser to corporations and View Details