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- 01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis
and accounting for all 800 “cow units” (a standard measurement that in this case means about 1,175 actual cattle). Calving season calls for constant monitoring of the pregnant cows and helping them give... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
cost advantage of China might not be large enough to bother—and that’s before taking into account the added expense, time, and complexity of logistics,” says Sirkin. View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Alumni Books Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, and Peter Klein (MBA 1971) (McGraw-Hill Education) The authors provide a proven plan for making strategic thinking part View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
How Ceres Supports Corporate Boards to Accelerate Climate Action
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
People Watching
million readers worldwide, Time Inc. has posted ten consecutive years of earnings growth and accounts for almost 10 percent of corporate profits for AOL Time Warner, where... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
transformational outsourcing approach may only account for 20 to 25 percent of the total number of outsourcing deals today, but I think it will grow as executives seeking... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
real trend here is that Americans aren’t as willing as they used to be to mold themselves into neat categories. In nearly every state, voter registration by political party is diminishing. More and more people are declaring themselves independents, who now View Details
Keywords: Government
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
structure rises from among low-slung concrete buildings. Will this become “Cummings land”? Reimagining New Center: Peter Cumming's current development projects (Click to open in new tab) The Fisher Building has been an icon of the Detroit... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
A note to the 73 incoming MBAs moving into newly renovated Gallatin Hall: You are some lucky ducks. I tagged along on a tour of Gallatin led by principal architect Steve Erwin and project architect Patricia DeLauri, both View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted... View Details
- 30 Jul 2019
- News
Turning Around Tesco
The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to celebrate, too: The chain is back in the black after surviving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
from West to East, but from East to West. And it is a mighty flow. In 2007, the United States needed to borrow around $800 billion from the rest of the world; more than $4 billion every working day. China, by contrast, ran a current View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
Reed Edwin C. Reed (MBA ’79) spends Saturdays with his family, but on Sundays, you’ll always find him at the office. Reed is the CFO of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens — a powerhouse religious institution... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
investments, and their responsibility to investors? Legislation mandating reform can be passed quickly compared with the time needed to change people’s behavior. Some believe that things won’t really change until we have a new generation View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Sarita expanded to a second school in Shanghai; Western businesspeople and diplomats account for 10 percent of the growing business. “When you have the knowledge and you know the protocol, then you have the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
and Global Financial Turmoil,” dealing with the U.S. system of financing homes; “Executive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008,” examining the impact of the financial crisis on... View Details
- 15 Apr 2011
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Students Hear Wall St. Critics
cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability and ethics at all levels. Overarching this, Angelides said, is a climate in which “too... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)
making public information more public. A big part of my job is to hold corporate America accountable to ensure DEI is more than a sideshow or a check-the-box commitment. Our goal is to help and assist, not... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
products account for 1 to 2 percent of total food sales in the United States. Reade’s business is mostly wholesale, selling to one organic distributor, two local health-food stores, and two restaurants. “The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a later date. “What we might actually be seeing is politicians lobbying in the interest of their own reelection chances,” she says. “We might need a bit more skepticism when a state says, ‘We have things under control.’ ” “Lobbying... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson