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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
smuggling, and tax evasion. Armed bodyguards protect him on his frequent travels around the country. During a visit in 2001 to a major automobile factory, Djelic and other officials explained to employees that thousands of them would have... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
business: Investing in employees keeps churn rates down and distinguishes Hello Alfred in a moment when quantity of transactions often wins out over quality of service. “If we serve our employees well, then... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
and international interactions which, by default, require employees at many different levels to have an understanding of different styles and ways of conducting business. My management team members, from six different countries and a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
“because there were virtually no General Motors vehicles there, which meant no spare parts or maintenance available,” Goodwin recalls. Ultimately, politics won out, and the ambulance was shipped, but Goodwin knew it provided no benefit to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
gathering in large groups. If we get to 40 or 50 percent occupancy rates by the end of the year, we’ll be doing pretty well. What will hotels need to do to make guests feel safe? MD: Hotels need to ensure their guests and their employees... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
employees with investors.” For students planning early career strategies, Immelt had these words of advice: “When you join a company, find somebody you trust. I had mentors early in my career who helped me out a lot. Always be dedicated... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
young consumers. I believe that will be true in our case. How would you describe the Starbucks company culture? It is highly aspirational and very people-oriented. Starbucks gives stock options to all employees (we call them partners); we... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
extraordinary start to my time at HBS. I can't imagine not having had the experience; it's a perfect fit with Foundations." Faculty, MBA Program staff, and other HBS employees all played active roles as facilitators, coordinators, and... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
goals probably, but definitely commercial too. Businesses are here to make money. So we have ambitious goals that are energizing to everybody. It also has a sense of duties that we here have duties to our customers, to our communities, to our View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
is reaching lots of people a primary motivation? I want to build products that people love. I’m a capitalist at heart: I believe entrepreneurs who create useful products or services are contributing something of benefit to society.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
his assessment in large measure on the mutual dependency of the two entities, Cheng said, "Hong Kong has benefited enormously from the economic opening of China. At the same time, Hong Kong has helped China build a successful market... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational conservation organization with 3,800... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
venture community and startup ecosystem.” The HBSCC hosts a wide variety of business and civic leaders for the benefit of alumni, according to Club President Steve Wasko (MBA 1986). “Penny Pritzker is at the pinnacle of both of these... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Stanford Business School, INSEAD in France, IESE in Spain, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "EDP has helped create a working relationship between institutions with a truly global point of view," says Clark. "The Bank and the academic institutions will all... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about consumer-driven health care. The firm... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
employees created a group called “Amazon employees for climate justice” and they staged a walkout. They walked out of the Seattle headquarters. When they did, they were joined by View Details