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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
been rising for everyone, we might feel differently about executive compensation, but in fact the gap between top and bottom has grown dramatically. Paul Healy: Short-Term Pressures The freedoms that we’ ve been given as investors in the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
going; it was a sense of duty,” he says. “People had put their trust in us, and we had a duty to deliver.” The revelation refocused Medina on longer-term sustainability over short-term growth. The Outreach software—which has expanded to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
short-term results with adherence to a long-term strategy and direction. At Cummins, we are driven by the concept of maximizing shareholder value -- but the question is, value over the next quarter or two, or over a longer period? Either... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
corporate governance is a long- or short-term goal? —Janelle James (MBA 2008) STEWART: It is hard to say because I cannot evaluate the subtle impact that the various training programs have on the development of business executives. All I... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
“Our short-term goals are: international, mobile, and video. With millions of users now accessing us from over 208 countries, we have introduced features enabling the translation of our content into any language. With over 70% of our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
Alvaro Dominguez Alvaro Dominguez In early 2018, a New York startup called Roomi opened itself up to the type of investors known by Wall Street traders as “mom-and-pop investors,” although an IPO was nowhere in sight. The company, which links roommates for View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
well as a strategic one. The tactical question is around the math of making added investments and the short-term impact it would have on more volume and perhaps more margin. Assuming the answer is a good one, the strategic question would... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
increased (and ditto in revenue), the founders felt hamstrung by having just one flavor. In 2015 Philp turned to Bulletin readers for advice on funding the launch of a second flavor and the resulting growth that they hoped would tip them over the $1 million mark in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
how can a CEO avoid making decisions that favor short-term results, even if those choices lead to predictable surprises? What I would like to take out of corporate decision-making are situations where a special-interest group within the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
tones while she delivered a PowerPoint presentation. The institute, she explained, would partner with Delgado Community College in New Orleans, which will expand its existing culinary studies program. The institute also will offer View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
additional vans and new production lines to keep up with demand and geographic expansion. But beyond the short-term phenomenon, Behn believes there is no going back, because the supermarket concept is 50 or 60 years old and is overdue for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
which was sourcing originals for its new hotel in Oakland, for example, and a florist who was staging a large-scale but short-term installation at Instagram’s headquarters. At first Giridharadas was simply hoping to build a better market... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
could do one thing, I would eliminate quarterly reports. While I think the best market is a well-informed market, I believe we've created a short-term numbers game that plays to the darker side of managerial action, and is a negative... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
HBS provides students with financial assistance from classroom to career. SUPPORTING STUDENTS The School provides similar opportunities to MBA students interested in exploring careers during the summer in sectors that don’t traditionally offer sufficient compensation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
competitor analysis, trend research, and leadership programs. Since then, the team has helped Granite Equity research individual company profiles, whether it’s for an acquisition or a vendor or a potential partner. The service also has helped make long-term strategic... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
nights in a shelter during a three-year period), Cicero data indicates that more than 70 percent of homeless people have spent fewer than 90 nights in a shelter over the last three years. That knowledge sheds light on the need to prioritize measures that help the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
Implementing Strategy. "There's the question of profit and growth versus control, for instance, or short-term results versus long-term capabilities. Managers today are involved in a very delicate balancing act." A proponent of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bond markets, commodity markets, and derivatives markets. In fact, so did all asset classes — not to mention those that benefit when bonuses are big, from vintage Bordeaux to luxury yachts. But these boom years were also misery years, when markets soared at a time of... View Details