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- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic failure? This roundtable... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
when the world will begin to change. That’s when green initiatives will find traction.” For more information, visit www.michaeljfox.org; www.gaylelemmon.com; www.pacificbeachcomber.com. Contact Garry Emmons... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
Asalaam alekum (Peace be upon you) is the greeting and farewell heard everywhere in Sudan, even in the teeming refugee camps and villages to which millions of uprooted Sudanese have been chased by fear and death. In these places created and stalked by violence,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Stripped to the waist in a clinic examining room, Mike, a burly white guy in his late 30s, is an illustrated man. His arms, chest, and neck are a tattooed maze of letters, numbers, and designs signaling his allegiance to the Aryan Nation gang. The Nazi SS lightning... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that are locked into early-stage... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
There is something in the human soul that yearns to get away from it all, to some unspoiled paradise by the sea, lulled by gentle breezes. And those dreams of golden days and starlit nights translate into a startling, cold-cash reality: Tourism generates up to 10... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Is your company doing enough to protect itself from cyber attacks? According to several HBS faculty and alumni experts, senior executives need to pay more attention to this potential threat. It makes good business sense — and fulfills a national security obligation as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
HBS alumni often describe the MBA Program as a transformational experience. That observation especially rings true for students such as Meredith Weenick, Neera Nundy, Abdu Mukhtar, and Jonathan Hodgson who participate in the Nonprofit and Public Management Summer... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years of economic and political turmoil, is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
to reflect increasing globalization, and the activities and views of overseas alumni. Now more than ever, just as it can truly be said that the sun never sets on HBS alumni, so too does the Bulletin's global reach extend further than ever before. - View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
QUEZON CITY, THE PHILIPPINES: On the edge of this municipality of Manila lies the Payatas dumpsite, the home and sole provider to thousands of scavengers. Payatas and places like it are symbols of a glaring inefficiency: Amid the global economy's great riches, billions... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the current M&As; phenomenon and how M&As; in general affect... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Ross with Arafat in Gaza City in 1998. Violence trumps everything. (photo: AP Wideworld Photos) Ross with Arafat in Gaza City in 1998. Violence trumps everything. (photo: AP Wideworld Photos) For more than twelve years, during the administrations of Presidents George... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of Macondo. "Every year, during... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in entrepreneurship generated... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
grandchildren to live in. For me, those are the stakes." Planting Hope in the New World Erling S. Lorentzen Aracruz Celulose S.A. by Garry Emmons "You can't expect people who don't eat a proper meal to be... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
Women & Enterprise. Cronin also funds four HBS fellowships. “Helping deserving people help themselves is as exciting as working on a deal,” he says. And for Cronin, that's fundamental. — Garry Emmons (send... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
productivity is the need [for] ever-increasing consumption. Unfortunately unemployed workers don't consume much of anything." Garry Emmons reminded me that "We examined this issue with HBS profs in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
Story ideas sometimes come from unexpected places. I would hazard to guess that this issue of the Bulletin offers a first in the magazine’s long history. Inspired by a copy of our international mailing list, Senior Associate Editor Garry... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
ABBASI: With the participation of HBS alumni and Hollywood heavyweights, bringing climate change drama into US living rooms. Related Link Preview: Years of Living Dangerously (video) by Garry Emmons Last... View Details