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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
electricity infrastructure, and cell phones. Up the Organization Citations for the "most influential company/organization" conformed to choices for most significant innovations View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
linguistic, economic, social,and business-culture obstacles — daunting for a foreigner under the best of circumstances — while making the inevitably unpopular decisions required to achieve a turnaround. Fast-forward a couple of years, to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
and found a number of broadly applicable factors that allowed clubs to amplify their investments. SIDENOTE: Tanaka's former team is the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, established in 2004 by the Rakuten Group—a company founded by Hiroshi... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
almost casual choices made during this crisis have spawned disastrous consequences. Take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for example. When I began covering the companies in early 2008, it was an unquestioned... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
The managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid since June 2001, Brit K. Dewey (MBA 1996) and her Admissions team have achieved the seemingly contradictory feat of making the admissions process... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
but was persuaded instead to enter a new doctoral program offered by HBS and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As he tells it, he walked into his first day of class in September 1966 virtually “clueless”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
signatures were obtained. How is it possible to deny the right to a secret ballot election in a free and democratic society? Dick Lindsay (PMD 32, 1976) Portland, OR Union Position Unpersuasive In regard to the Employee Free View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
Alumnae to Celebrate Official Launch of HBS Women’s Association The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBSWA) will host a Virtual Launch Celebration on Wednesday, June 12, to mark its official expansion as a nationwide HBS alumnae Shared Interest Group (SIG).... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
hypothesis and action,” Ascarza says. Data's Evolution “The toughest challenge in case writing is deciding what to show and what to tell. The decisions should be based on what... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
the lessons that you gleaned from those choices? Brady: So I bucket those two choices that both he and I had to make in a couple different ways. One is Stephen Reich taught me many, many different things.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
exchange of letters in which the publisher defended Carson’s source material and its decision to issue the book, Velsicol backed away from its warnings. No lawsuits against Silent Spring were filed before or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
greater overall satisfaction with their lives. One of the things we are working on now is understanding how decisions about time, money, and happiness play out in the context of romantic relationships. What... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
exacerbated by accelerating expectations, mounting problems, and a finite supply of venture capital cash, is what Perlow and her colleagues diagnose as the “speed trap.” The trap is particularly insidious... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 22 Nov 2015
- News
Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
research organizations and the political press to rethink labor laws for the digital age. “We have old rules about how you act as an employer,” said Ms. Sapone, 29, who started Hello Alfred with a Harvard Business School classmate. “We... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
“Mutiny is a rare and extreme example, but my findings also apply to situations where it becomes necessary to manage conflict or create buy-in for organizational change,” she adds. Merryman cites HBS professor Joshua Margolis as just one... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
going on behind the scenes," notes Angela Crispi (MBA '90), assistant dean, chief planning officer. "We're choosing color palettes and making decisions about furniture, flooring, View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross