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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
flexible schedule, the lack of appropriate role models in traditionally "male" industries, the impact of maternity leaves on promotion opportunities, and a realignment of ambitions after experiencing parenthood. Barbara A. Piette (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
if we are holding investments in companies for a period of three or five years, or in many cases seven or ten years, it’s appropriate for any gains that might be generated on those investments to be taxed at a lower rate than ordinary... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Publishing Corporate governance regulates not only interactions between shareholders, management, and oversight bodies such as boards of directors, but also ensures appropriate checks and balances can preserve and enhance the viability of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
aspects that the company tries to incorporate into all of its products are “hands-on, minds-on” and ensuring that toys are appropriately challenging — not so hard that they alienate newcomers but not so simple that kids get bored with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
appropriating $25 million annually to the states for the construction of better roads. In 1921, the U.S. government set aside some of these funds for the creation of a nationwide highway system. Road construction continued apace during... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
classes.” But Taylor’s lack of experience in Washington may be his biggest handicap. After sixteen years in Congress, Edwards wields political clout. He’s one of only five House members sitting on both the powerful Budget and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
began the global component, called FIELD 2, last October when they were divided into teams of six, assigned a global partner—one of 140 participating businesses and nonprofits—and challenged to develop a product or service appropriate for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
the compensation component. While the 3-30-300 rule of thumb is a generalization and a simplification, the order of magnitude is appropriate and useful. Some professions pay much more. When higher salaries are considered, the impact of... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
grandmother, I began a company with the tools I learned at HBS to serve other families like ours. I am committed to providing the best experience of care, with the most compassion, dignity, and safety, in whatever setting is appropriate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
business, and facing the employees who all grew up in the memory business, who all prided themselves on their skills, and those skills were no longer appropriate for the direction that we were going to take with microprocessors.” The... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
very appropriate phrase, wilderness. It was. My wife's American, so we moved to the US early ’91. It was devastating. My whole life was spent being groomed to run this family media company. And now that was over. So what do you do now? I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
added that "with almost Œreal-time' information, business can now make appropriate decisions rather than guess." Second on the list was telecommunications, "a great facilitator, the pipeline that allows other innovations to happen (the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for information. One problem in all this was that the boards weren't getting appropriate information and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
recalls. “There was a cult of youth, and I realized that I should work for myself because I wasn’t going to find an appropriate position at that point.” Bemis, who had experience as a venture capitalist, decided to focus full-time on... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
marketplace (made up of Levi Strauss and VF Corporation, followed by Claiborne, Jones, and then a host of $50- to $500-million firms). "With the right combination of human and technological resources," Charron adds, "we can respond quickly, creatively, and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
or providing investment banking or consulting services to private equity firms, Private Equity is also appropriate for readers who are interested in a more detailed exploration of corporate finance. Patient Capital: The Challenges and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
management; knowledge of the appropriate skills and tools, such as opportunity analysis, deal-structuring, organization design, and innovation supports; command of relevant specific knowledge, including tax law, corporate governance... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
constituency is girls ages five through seventeen, Hesselbein says, "we realized our financial planning needed to put us in a secure position where we could serve these girls, as well as new members - not just today, but as they grew with the organization." * Are our... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
prof always managed to call on a student from the country involved, we figured that our French sectionmate was bound to weigh in at some point. In preparation, we tape-recorded a brief version of the Marseillaise and handed out miniature French flags (made of View Details