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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
Business, Aaron Chatterji, call “CEO activism,” in which corporate executives speak out about social or environmental issues not obviously related to their core businesses. “What prompted this research is that we kept observing instances of CEOs stepping into the...
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- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Porsche erected a small but substantial plant in Leipzig in eastern Germany. And unlike BMW or Daimler-Benz, Porsche did not move closer to the main U.S. market. The controversial Cayenne has turned out to be Porsche's best-selling...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
Junge, looks at both sides of the controversial assisted-suicide debate and offers an unguarded glimpse into Gardner’s daily circumstances of living with the increasing debilitation of Parkinson’s. When he talks to the camera, his speech...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot-Mom
of Mrs. Mom. She has written a self-help book based on her own transitional experience called Chapters: Create a Life of Exhilaration and Accomplishment in the Face of Change. Olson is well aware that her embrace of home and hearth may seem View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
Benetton Brain Trust: After learning at the knee of his father, Luciano, Alessandro is taking the family business forward. Working for his family’s company, whose colorful sportswear and controversial advertising made it a brand of...
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Inequality in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Kalinda Ukanwa - Blog: RaGE Report
oversight to align consumer and firm perceptions of fairness, referencing a case study on the Apple credit card controversy to illustrate how unfounded, biased perceptions can arise. She calls for interdisciplinary research to explore...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
turnarounds, Gilson uses intensively researched case studies of thirteen corporations that tackled some of the most controversial and innovative restructuring efforts of the last decade. Each case reveals the multitude of decisions that...
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Margie Kelley
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
A personal mission to serve veterans
cemeteries in 2010. Last year’s controversy at Veterans Affairs compelled her to return to public service full time. “My younger brother, Kenneth, is an infantry officer in the marines and our future customer. Everyone on active duty is a...
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Love and Money - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
symbolizing the transience of honor and material possessions. 37 [ Der Liebesantrag—the Ill-Assorted Couple ] view image Engraved contemporary copy, in mirror image, of Albrecht Dürer's engraving by this title. [n.p., original ca. 1495]. 14.3 x 13.5 cm, imageCA g49...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
led to Merrill’s acquisition by Bank of America,” he recalled. Three weeks after the deal closed on January 1, 2009, Thain was forced to resign as controversy swirled around the generous terms of the $50 billion deal and $3.6 billion in...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
chair of the ad hoc student-faculty Committee on Section Dynamics, he helped resolve controversy over a faculty-written document outlining norms for HBS classroom behavior that students perceived as proscriptive in nature. The committee...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- Profile
Brighton Mudzingwa
to be part of a sustainable economic system." But, Brighton says, "By the time I left the country in 2003, it was effectively unraveling. Agriculture was the backbone of our country. But a controversial land-distribution...
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Financial Services
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
neighborhood was a product of Detroit’s controversial 1960s urban renewal efforts. “But the way people live today, they want to be close to the action. They want to be close to their jobs. They want to ride their bikes; they want to take...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
valedictorian. "Being a student body leader during such a controversial time proved to be most rewarding," says the polished and gracious Safin, who speaks English with the barest trace of an accent. "I was able to take the initiative to...
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
a building not far from the White House. To the young receptionist who buzzes in a visitor, he’s “Mr. Mac,” best known, perhaps, as the restless, elderly gentleman down the hall. To those of an older generation, he is, of course, much more than that: one of the most...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
Also on the agenda would be managing internal and external communications, including dealing with the press and public about the controversies surrounding our work. And the person would have to run the administrative side to make sure we...
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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog
times of interesting individuals in a wide variety of settings, You want to understand, and be inspired by, the choices that these individuals made and the paths they followed to rise to positions of prominence, You enjoy engaging in a spirited discussion about View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
The controversial topic of offshoring U.S. jobs may have been shoved out of the headlines by recent events, but it remains front and center for senior business leaders operating in an increasingly global, competitive economy. To give MBAs...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
to advertising can actually decrease the probability of a consumer choosing that product. This boosts the case for precision target marketing, which, though often controversial for perceived breaches of privacy, could be beneficial to...
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Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)