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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
accounting and SEC rules throughout that portion of the company where he had direct authority and accountability. Since Enron is certainly not the only company to have engaged in such gaming, the important... View Details
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
most creative and innovative companies of the 20th century. 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Photograph Collection Photographs that were on display in New York City and Chicago in an exhibition sponsored by the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
conversation. A former senior software executive, Novello is the founder of MutualRescue.Org, a national media initiative that highlights the connection between people and pets in order to inspire and support life-saving rescue efforts.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women
On November 3, HBS will host the first venture capital forum ever held for women entrepreneurs in the New England area. Titled "Springboard 2000: New England" and sponsored by the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) and the National... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Charles C. Spaulding
Joining his uncle’s firm in 1898, Spaulding rose to director of North Carolina Mutual. Under Spaulding, the company grew to be the largest black-owned business of the time and had amassed assets of over $37 million by the time of... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
When does a company founder have to go? In the frenzied, early months of a new venture's launch, few entrepreneurs anticipate a future beyond their role as company leader. In the case study "Founder–CEO... View Details
Ernest T. Weir
Having formed National Steel through the consolidation of three small steel firms and a furnace company, Weir managed his enterprise in a somewhat hard-line manner, implementing whatever profit-generating methods he deemed appropriate.... View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
SchleferHarvard Business School Case 711-016 Since emerging from decades of conflict in 2002, Angola has been growing at a scorching double-digit rate, led by its oil industry. But the nation remains beset... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
health and education in the localities where the company operates. While critics feared that her cooperative, compassionate approach would hurt the 95-year-old company’s bottom line, just the opposite has been the case. A New Jersey... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
exposure and fee generation. China + India: The Power of Two Author:Tarun Khanna Publication:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 12 (December 2007) Abstract China and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
offers: one from an oil and gas company and another from the consulting firm Bain, which had just set up an office in the country in 1997. She turned to longtime friend and chemical engineering classmate... View Details
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Bei Guo
As an analyst at Citigroup in Japan, Bei Guo gained firsthand experience on the impact of equity capital markets on Asian business. "There are many excellent companies in Japan," Bei says, "and China is on a growth path in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
peak. It’s a “fourteener,” as mountaineers say, meaning more than 14,000 feet high. Vertical adventure, in other words. GoLite Mobile: The company car makes a statement wherever the couple drive in Boulder. (photos of courtesy of GoLite)... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
ever seen. By offering 10 years of policy certainty, the IRA encourages technology innovators to form companies and it reassures larger corporates to be their buyers. So as early-stage investors in clean energy, electrified... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
League in the MIT Sloan Management Review. "As research on the National Football League reveals, sometimes the specific nature of a job determines whether a great performer at one company can replicate that... View Details
Joseph A. Martino
Starting with the company as a 16 year old office boy, Martino went on to transform National Lead into one of the country’s leading industrial producers of lead products and paints. During his tenure as CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
sketch some important implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
given year. We provide a partial explanation for this statistic: a foreign aid windfall to poor, non-oil producing Muslim countries during the twin oil crises of the 1970s allowed the recipient states to become more repressive and stave... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
rising leaders in 120 companies and how they dealt with them. The challenges included handling rising pressure and recovering from mistakes; dealing with office villains; taking uncomfortable risks; and knowing when it’s time to find... View Details