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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
growth—choosing instead to align with passive CEOs looking for short-term gains. What's more, the East is succeeding by using the very model the West forfeited, looking to men and women who seek to build empires with bold—and yes,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
emergency short-term placement for troubled teens in McHenry County. Before we were licensed, the only options the county had for teens who could not go home were sending them to jail or a hospital. Over seven years, we took in more than... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
and short-term approach to solving problems in the developing world began to frustrate Brooks. “I wanted to understand the corporate side of how things work,” she explains. “Business is the lifeblood of our economy; I was never as... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
initiative helps organizations create short-term financial stability for vulnerable workers and communities. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES Ackerley cites a Pew... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
from small- and medium-sized farms and ship it to our warehouses, where we prepare the orders. After the order is prepared, we ship the orders using a decentralized network of drivers to the group buyers, who handle the last-mile-delivery logistics.” What are your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Banks. Amid the excitement, abuses have also appeared, with some online lenders reportedly charging as much as 50 percent in interest on some short-term loans. It’s been enough to attract the attention of regulators, with everyone from... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 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
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
recession, when high unemployment rates lessened the demand for traveling nurses to answer the short-term staffing needs of hospitals around the country. “I call that part ‘hanging off the cliff,’” Moreno notes. With the implementation of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
that is expected over the next five years," explained Crane. "That poses a significant short-term challenge in terms of replenishing the current faculty." In addition, Crane noted, over the past several years the School has expanded its... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
purposes. They can provide effective and efficient services, but they have a short-term focus and, appropriately, go where the money is. After all, that is their obligation to their stockholders." Herzlinger noted that, unlike business... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
We decided to convey the violence obliquely through snippets of news, and to focus on the devastation the piecemeal revelations brought about on the shooter's parents and their relationship. We wanted to gut the short-term adrenaline out... 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
- 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
- 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 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 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