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- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
Burke: A need to close the income gap. After her graduation from HBS, few people could accuse Mary Burke (MBA 1985) of having led a dull life. As reported in the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times (October 5, 2011), Burke first worked for McKinsey, then started a View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
leadership position in the Northeast through the strategic use of new technology, marketing savvy, and a management style that encouraged staff to invest themselves in their work. In 1996, BayBanks merged with Bank of Boston to form BankBoston. As with his earlier... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
modeled after those on campus, is the new home for an expanding roster of Executive Education programs offered to Indian business leaders. Days after the official opening, seats filled with eager participants in a program titled Building... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto says Western business leaders have shown "extraordinary complacency in the face of upheavals." The numbers don't look good for the West. The United States, Great Britain, and France have each seen their average GDP growth hover... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
him, he doesn’t show it. He’s confident that his team has the skills and expertise to execute SEEQC’s roadmap. He is also convinced that the technology they’re developing is absolutely necessary to turning today’s primitive quantum computers into something that View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
visible component of a business with increasingly explosive, multifaceted economic aspects. Yet despite these turbulent conditions, there's no shortage of new ownership wanting to jump into the game. For example, two new baseball... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
developments, such as the congressional proposal to augment the Social Security system with a program of private savings, a plan that presumably would include the mutual fund industry. Ultimately, it is the fundamentals upon which the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
investment directors should be required to make in a company, but my analysis leads me to propose a threshold commitment of $250,000 to $500,000 for companies in the $1 billion to $3 billion revenue range, and $500,000 to $1 million in... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
Importantly, determining a country’s standing on these criteria is judged not by the MCC but by outside parties such as the WHO and the Heritage Foundation. Once selected, partner countries must submit proposals indicating specifics about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Back to the Drawing Board by Colin B. Carter and Jay W. Lorsch (Harvard Business School Press) Corporate boards are frequent targets of criticism in the wake of recent corporate scandals. But in their new book, Back to the Drawing Board:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
others.” The 52 students in his cohort spent eight days in May working on challenges proposed by nine partner organizations in Mexico City. The trip was the culmination of the yearlong FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
governance benchmarks based on objective, third-party assessments. Once eligible, countries put forward their own proposals showing what they need money for and how they will use it. Overall, of the Western donor countries, I'd say the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
of the European Common Market in 1792. Before HBS, he worked as an M&A analyst at Morgan Stanley. In the summer between his first and second years, he worked as a summer intern at Cineplex Odeon in his native Toronto, and then upon graduation started as a senior View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
was a year ago. Think about what you love and what's going to be important ten years from now. Key elements in evaluating a business proposal I've always been a big "bet the jockey, not the horse" guy.... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
Racism and Third-Degree Racism,” published in The Atlantic, John Rice (MBA 1992) proposes a way forward. We can end racism, he writes, by increasing its cost. The founder and CEO of the nonprofit Management Leadership for Tomorrow, where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
the global economy. Based on a culture of mutual trust and support, YPOers form lifelong connections in the small, geographically based YPO Forums where they share successes and challenges (both business and personal) in complete... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna