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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- News
The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
of the 1930s, because it’s the economic crisis against which all others are typically compared. Importantly, one of the most striking things about the Depression, according to observers both at the time and since, is that economic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
was really hard to put a deal together. Despite that, all the creditors, the management team, the board, and 11 of the 12 unions either approved the deal or agreed not to oppose this deal. And it was one union with bad information and bad judgment that really led a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
government agency bonds.) From America’s point of view, meanwhile, the best way of keeping the good times rolling in recent years has been to import cheap Chinese goods. Moreover, by outsourcing manufacturing to China, U.S. corporations have been able to reap the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
however, and protest strikes in response to a law proposed by Labor Minister Myriam El Khomri, under President François Hollande, that would make it easier for companies to fire workers and extend the number... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
a long workweek it was and how extraordinarily controlling companies were in the early days before the labor movement." In subtle contrast, a striking 1933 portrait of a woman cotton warper at the Shelton... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
stint at Procter & Gamble, he became president of Yahoo! Marketplace, a joint venture between Yahoo! and Visa. As head of that Santa Clara, California, firm, he conceived its strategy for an Internet guide to consumer shopping. His success inspired him to return to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
Photography by Bryce Vickmark In a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria made a strong statement in defense of Wall Street and the financial system. Recalling his youth in India, Nohria related the story of his father, a successful... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
This is a huge opportunity, but the window is going to close. They have to move quickly." Venkatesan knows his message may strike some as zealous, but he's fine with that. "I'm doing it because I love my country," he says. "We need more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
globalization, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Following the immersion, Shih reflected on key learnings from the experience, which HBS’s Division of Research and Faculty Development and the Global Initiative’s Asia-Pacific Research Center’s Singapore office helped to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership by Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business Review Press New managers must learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
remotely and how productive they were. It was striking to see that people thought they were much more productive at home. But they also used real numbers to measure productivity and saw the exact opposite in the non-subjective... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
seems to rise above national influences and toward a commonality shared by other top firms in the international arena. In their study of the software industry in India, HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu detect signs that globalization in the product and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
that chance. What are some of that story's highlights? One striking aspect is that by the mid-1980s, the United States had almost entirely lost both the computer and the consumer electronics industries before it recovered in computers... View Details