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- 13 Sep 2013
- News
Educate Everyone About Second-Generation Gender Bias
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master
In an April appearance at HBS, Kenneth Feinberg, the special master for TARP executive compensation, denied that he was an autonomous “pay czar,” explaining that within parameters decreed by congressional legislation, he viewed himself mainly as a negotiator. Thus, his... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- News
Career Trends
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
study about Specialisterne, an organization that was introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the labor force. “I started thinking, why not let HPE and our clients benefit from these talented people as well?” Fieldhouse... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
1609 to 2008.” America explains that his focus is on these centuries of unjust enrichment, which he defines as “the illicit transfer or systematic taking of other peoples’ land, resources, or labor by force, fraud, and manipulation.”... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Getting Reality on the Table One of the country's foremost experts on money laundering and illegal flight capital, Raymond W. Baker (MBA '60) set out for Africa one year after graduating from HBS, seeking "a taste of international business." In Nigeria, as a consultant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Shareholders' Value?
What are shareholders good for? Maybe not as much as most people think. Basically, shareholders are supposed to provide three functions: money, information, and discipline. Let's examine each. Money. In theory, shareholders are supposed to be a source of capital for... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Castaldo attributes Pollo Tropical's success to a “high-value equation” that features freshly prepared food of restaurant quality at fast-food prices. “While the quick-service business has tried to take the labor out of food preparation,... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue will not go away. Directors are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
PORTER WITH RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME: Beyond best practices, understanding principles of global health-care delivery. It’s no surprise to find HBS professor Michael Porter meeting with powerful people who seek his ear and prize his advice. But on a hot summer day... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with shareholders’ money. Yet when Lehman... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
structure will help them manage their businesses more efficiently and responsibly.” The GRI is emerging even as institutional investors, NGOs, and governments intensify their scrutiny of firms in areas such as environmental impact, human rights, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are doing. Brian Elliot (MBA 2008)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Fellow, before being hired to serve as the center’s director of strategic initiatives. “I worked primarily with the president and the CFO of Lincoln Center, and that was an extraordinary opportunity,” Houston says. “I gained experience in everything from View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
data impacting strategy, Cunningham notes, allowing her to see the cause and effect almost in real time. “I can look at the trade implications, the service time and labor hour implications, and implications for our customer satisfaction... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
dropping as fuel costs were rising, pulling down SUV sales. Korean automakers were taking more and more market share, buoyed by government investment. Structural costs—US labor high among them—remained a drag on domestic production. “It’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor emeritus (and Pulitzer Prize-winner) Chandler and coeditor Mazlish,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor... View Details