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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
And she succeeded. A veteran of the peer group industry, who has trained and mentored hundreds, Corner-Stolz cracked the code for MX as well as for how to skillfully moderate PaCs. She’s been teaching her formula for success through her Peer Advisory Council Academy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
really my job to think about the health of society or the planet. My job is to put my head down and run a profitable business.” Now we’re at a moment where many of us look around at the federal government and say, “Excuse me, we have a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
celebratory fireworks. "We've always thought of OPM as a family, so it's wonderful to see all the families here tonight," he noted. "The friendships and relationships that are reinforced by class reunions are always fruitful, and we hope that this reunion will provide... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
profit margins, so getting rid of that problem can mean retailers make their profit, or even double it. “It’s been motivating to create something out of nothing, and make a step change in things, as opposed to just optimizing what’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
group of successful entrepreneurs who shared their experiences of launching and sustaining a minority-owned business. “Start planning early. Save money. And go back to your community,” said L. Londell McMillan, president and CEO of L.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
strategy because strategies typically change over time, even for the best entrepreneurial teams. We also tend to be investors that focus very heavily on market share and growth. A typical business that we would like to see is one where... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
links between gender and ethnic diversity and profit, finding that “companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams were 21 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
since women control or influence a lion’s share of household buying decisions. That includes cars, vacations, electronics, health care, and more. We also see a lot in the media about work-life balance and the difficulties working mothers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
individuals can do their jobs? It reminds me of one of the most poignant lines in the 9/11 Commission report: “Good people can overcome bad structures. They should not have to.” It’s been said that, post-9/11, the intelligence community’s culture must change from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Colombia — I found that people share similar goals: security, a good job, and a better life for their families. What they struggle with is how to get there. Helping these people requires focused assistance in the form of knowledge,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
long-term proposition that often requires years of complicated research, negotiation, construction, and drilling before a drop of oil or a penny of profit is produced. The capital required to initiate and to sustain this far-flung... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
better way, a market-proven, step-by-step program to achieve sustained growth with rising profits and lower costs. The authors suggest that given the right incentives, managers using this program can produce astonishing results in... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
work a lot harder and requires us to have a lot of creativity and it requires us to try a lot of things that don’t work and make some mistakes but keep plugging. DM: In this episode of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna asked this year’s recipients of the 2025... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
widely used? Merton: One answer is, simply, that it filled a need. It wasn't intellectual interest that made people want to apply it. In the 1970s, profit margins to options dealers were driven down, competition was going up, and options... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
at funding infrastructure. The government has to be as they did with IRA providing incentives for capital to come in, to work on some of these projects and the banking and asset management and insurance industries have to be there, ready to partner, View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
for Wall Street. “It may, in fact, be a very profitable investment,” provided the government ultimately sells the distressed mortgage assets for more than the purchase price, he noted. (On November 12, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
threatening to organizations—or entire industries—that they are best described as “wicked.” Wicked Strategies offers a comprehensive framework for identifying, responding to and profiting from wicked problems. Aston Martin DB4GT by... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
and CEO of Best Buy and HBS senior lecturer Hubert Joly shares leadership principles that underpinned the remarkable resurgence of Best Buy, which he believes are at the heart of business: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center,... View Details