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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
controls the recruitment and tenure of directors, sets the board’s agenda, selects the information that flows to the board, and oversees the process of evaluating CEO performance, directors will find it difficult to shift the power... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction. Road managers pressured the View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to meet and network with African... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
beginning. Before Roshan launched, demand for its service was so high that a prelaunch informational leaflet began selling in the Kabul bazaar for $1. Police were called in to control the crowds waiting outside Roshan’s flagship store in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
continue to advance steadily. How should they respond to growing pressures against globalization? And what can businesses do to control their destinies in these times of uncertainty? Ghemawat helps readers understand the key trends... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
believe that we can just take existing processes for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and improve them through optimizing the chemical engineering process. The fundamental bottleneck that controls the economics of direct-air... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and the craftsmen involved in producing them. The Accelerating World: Speed vs. Control by Emmanuel Cassimatis (MBA 2009) (Emmanuel Cassimatis) Over the past five decades, several mysterious and seemingly unrelated events have taken... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “The solution doesn't necessarily come from the federal government or from Wal-Mart. The solution comes from lots of us deciding that we are going to do what it takes to solve... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
government and saved my earnings. Afterward I invested the money to develop a life-saving aviation technology but couldn’t attract resources to commercialize it. I was offered the chance to fly it on the Rutan Voyager (the first aircraft... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
available search-and-rescue, as well as no oil or chemical spills and no rust buckets allowed. By secure we mean no single nation has control or the ability to unfairly tax ships passing through. Reliable means having enough... 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 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
war’s progress? In matters of the human spirit, numbers could be deceiving. After teaching accounting and control for three years at HBS, McNamara became a War Department consultant and later was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. In... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in old-line, inefficiently managed... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
strike. Afterward, from most accounts, much of the momentum behind the protests at HBS dissipated. The Class of1971 settled down to a far more traditional second-year experience, with some notable departures: there was a heightened level of interest in the role of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
was the deregulation of industries in which competition had traditionally been held in check by government rules, as in airlines, banking, and telecommunications. The second consisted of the ever-widening effect of new technologies,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
decision; we have to look at our values and find the right course based on that.” The board of directors and executive team have been chipping away at a list of commitments designed to strengthen governance and build in mechanisms for... View Details