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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
Al Checchi's record of achievement - particularly his turnaround of Northwest Airlines - is usually attributed to his brilliance and financial acumen. Often overlooked is how family heritage and twists of fate have played a role in his life, inspiring him "to do things... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
On a summer evening in 1991, after a small, invitation-only dinner in New York City, Ken Brody took aside the guest of honor for a private conversation. The longer the two men talked, the more Brody sensed he had found a kindred spirit. Like Brody -- a milkman's son... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
really the study of human behavior. Why do people buy and consume? Why do they have preferences? Of all the business disciplines, marketing is the most personal. What I try to do in every case I teach is make the class about human behavior, and bring that home for the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
exists a unique opportunity to bring lasting stability to southeastern Europe. Generous international aid and investment in the region, he contends, will benefit the West geopolitically and reward it financially. “We are living a historic moment,” says Djelic. “That's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
not have an already well-developed moral compass. While we should not have to point out to students what is “right” and what is “wrong,” we can guide them through the gray areas of decision-making. HBS puts these concerns front and center with the ethics module and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
parents and others are happy because somebody’s taking a rational look at all this. But there’s always a tendency for people to say, “You’re telling me I bought my child, and that’s a horrible thing to say.” — Garry View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
with their eyeballs in the television industry. They’re moving from local, independent content to nationally produced content, presumably because it’s a better viewing experience. That ultimately will decide this matter. And as the benefits of bigness in program... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
teaches Business, Government, and the International Economy in the MBA Program, cites several periods in history when excess capacity has been blamed for economic upheaval. Emmons says that "accurate business forecasting is never really... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
As any music industry executive will tell you, rock-and-roll drives the business. And as any ten-year-old with a boom box knows, the guitar rules rock. So when it comes to pop music's signature instrument, even though he may lack flashy moves and a marquee-friendly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
For more than twenty years, Terry Stewart's work has placed him at the middle of some of the world's most contentious border disputes - the trade and legal battles that erupt when countries engage in practices such as dumping or restricting access to their internal... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken together with HBS and several other academic institutions, was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87)
For fans and management alike, with so much of professional sports now indistinguishable from other high-powered enterprises, where can one turn for an affordable and quality sports experience? Ask Frank Burke (MBA '87), owner of the Chattanooga Lookouts Double-A minor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action more urgent than ever. This is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
The son of a small-town banker, Charlie Williams grew up in rural West Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University, and taught for more than 39 years at HBS. The School’s much-revered George Gund Professor of Commercial Banking, Emeritus, he saw 27 former students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Joe Badaracco
A graduate of St. Louis University and a Rhodes Scholar, Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., had never considered attending HBS. Then he spent a couple of years in the business world, at Price Waterhouse. “I became much more interested in business, and that got me interested in... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
It’s been a grim couple of weeks out there. Personally, I’ve had more déjà vu than I’ve seen in a long time, as Yogi Berra might have said, especially after losing a string of tough doubleheaders. My own sobering twin bill has consisted of revisiting, in recent days,... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
The National Research Council, an arm of the U.S National Academy of Sciences, recently added its voice to a growing chorus of calls for immediate action to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. As it happens, the announcement came on the heels of a visit to the School... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
ATTRACTING INVESTORS like moths to a flame is Firefly Network, Inc. (www.firefly.com), a privately held firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that strives to make the Internet more consumer-friendly. Firefly CEO and co-founder Nicholas Grouf explains that the company's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable housing - such as Boston's Orchard... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt (1983) They were bold, even breathtaking words at the time. Two decades later, their echoes are... View Details