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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Avenue Manslaughter: An Inside View of Fee-Cutting Clients, Profit-Hungry Owners, and Declining Ad Agencies by Michael Farmer (MBA 1971) (Lid Publishing) Farmer, formerly a director of Bain & Company, describes the key trends that have weakened ad agencies in recent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
federal regulation. So my bottom line is we need a financial product safety commission that ensures some basic safety for American families.” Don’t Expect CEOs in Handcuffs Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw, former chairman of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Amazon books on its site. The affiliate then receives a commission for books Amazon sells through these links. Barter exchanges, also called link exchanges, entail the trading (with no money exchanged) of links between Internet sites.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
single point in time — that is, to “accept the data of the momentary situation as if there were no past or future to it.” Yet this is the customary method. The typical economic theorist or government commission does not see the behavior... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
staff exactly what kinds of challenges Pine Mountain faced and how he planned to meet them; conducted a series of town hall meetings to reestablish trust with the community; and commissioned a strategic assessment to identify the school’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
In June 2000, when the National Commission on Terrorism released its report, the commission's chairman, L. Paul ("Jerry") Bremer III (MBA '66), issued a warning. "There's a chance terrorists will try to stage a catastrophic event in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
As Rehm began to put together his team, he recruited Green for the Special Funds Branch, and the “physical defect” that had kept Green from joining the war effort was cured with a little strategic lobbying. In February 1943, Green received his View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Ready for Takeoff: Web Portal Enters Second Phase
editorial teams across HBS, to name a few. "I also want to increase the percentage of original content by commissioning more freelance articles, monthly columns, and special reports. We would like to be a vehicle for HBS faculty to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
furniture, it worked out perfectly,” says Lackley. “Mark’s the idea guy, and I’m the businessperson.” Lackley left Open Market before her wedding and began to help Mark with selling commissioned pieces of furniture. She briefly returned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)
for.” I was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in 2001, and I chose logistics because it was one of the best opportunities for women. You can lead a line platoon and have command. I went to Iraq in 2005. I questioned... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
to give our graduation talk. And that short little 12-minute talk really changed my trajectory as well, because I saw how much it could help people. One of the people in my class was really affected by it. One of them decided to View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
facility. Now Mobius is about to embark on an ambitious growth plan by opening a new factory. With $20 million in investments and loans to date, the company designed, built, and sold their proof of concept, then developed the Mobius II and View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
women to the hospital. Mukhtar led improvements in the world around her. She didn’t commission a study or give advice. She confronted extremism. And if an illiterate peasant in a remote corner of Pakistan can do all that, imagine what... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the UN Global Compact. None of this is news to Smith. A former US Navy aviator who worked at Bendix Aerospace and Booz Allen Hamilton before running (and eventually selling) an advertising... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
working with members of Congress to modernize the rules and processes on the internal side. It’s been about 20 years since we’ve had a commission in this country to look at restructuring the way Congress does its day-to-day business. One... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
'animatics' of television commercials and to commission qualitative and quantitative market research. Decision-making is automatically cut off when the budget ceiling is reached." Students had a true-to-life managerial experience,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
University. As a junior, he was elected student-body president, a role that included serving on a state government reform commission tasked with understanding how public policy decisions had limited Louisiana’s potential. When he applied... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
1,000 women whose marriages had ended. I realized that my wife did the right thing by leaving me. I drank too much and spent too much time away from home on business and political activities. (I ran for mayor of Phoenix and was on every board and View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Nike) to illustrate the concept. Grand Ambition by G. Bruce Knecht (MBA 1986) (Simon & Schuster) Knecht tells the story of the travails of Doug Von Allmen, an investor who commissioned a 187-foot, $40 million yacht, and of the artisans... 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... View Details