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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
Skilling’s conduct will reopen discussions of what was the real offense committed by Skilling. The answer to this question is important because many of Skilling’s allegedly fraudulent activities fall into the “shadowed space” or “penumbra” between the clear light of...
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- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
adding an African proverb he quotes often. "If you want to go fast, go alone. I if you want to go far, go together." Become comfortable being uncomfortable. “High adventure requires that you make decisions without all the information you...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
surprise “Keep America Rolling” zero-percent financing campaign on GM vehicles to keep GM's, and its suppliers', production lines rolling in the face of an unprecedented national crisis. Rick's quick and decisive action against...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
successful firm until the 1930s. Revson wouldn't have stood out as someone who was bound for success. Noyce, however, showed extraordinary intelligence at an early age, and Walton had a natural ability to motivate. Each of these people faced a pivotal choice or choices...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
Market day also means it’s a busy day for Gregoria Alvarez Reyes, whose store sits on an adjacent corner, right in the path of foot traffic. For the past 11 years, Reyes has owned and operated Farmacia Fradoni in this northwest section of...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman
approach to philanthropy. When you started with Baupost at age 25, did you already consider yourself a value investor? Yes. After my junior year in college and right after graduating, I worked for Mutual Shares Corporation, which was run...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors found four distinct types of highly successful “business builder” personalities―the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader, and the Captain―and analyze how each type...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
I wanted to be president of a $500 million business, and I achieved that,” he says. “When I left at age 54, there was no great epiphany, although the fact that we sold our subsidiary businesses made it financially easier for me to ‘retire,’ in the old terminology.”...
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- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
whether you are doing the right thing. Your decisions are your legacy.” One of Fisher’s favorite analogies is that being in business is like rowing crew. “When the team pulls together, and everybody is at...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
benefit the most. Right now, carriers are spending billions of dollars on spectrum and infrastructure upgrades to deliver this technology, without really knowing if consumers want to sign on for these expensive new services. “If it’s just...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
team-based projects in the areas of Business History (The Dynamics of Capitalist Revolutions); Leadership, Values, and Decision Making (LVDM); Quantitative Methods (Lectures and Problems); Applied Personal Skills; Career Development; and...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
yet-to-be-constructed plant 40 miles from Caen. Viana’s bid to produce luxury madeleines in a new, nearby location with 16 of the original workers was the obvious favorite, but it required an estimated 2.8 million he had yet to secure. The tribunal postponed its View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
as well as a positive brand image, good relationships with key customers, and some $250 million cash (and no debt). "For me," Charron notes, "it was simply a question of how to deploy those assets and how to take advantage of the opportunities we had in order to get...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
everything to try to escape to freedom. “That experience,” she recalls, “made me passionate about the effects political and economic policy decisions have on individuals’ rights and opportunities.” Choi...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
and an interest in health-care management. She currently teaches the required course General Management and the Foundations module Leadership, Values, and Decision Making. Twenty-five years after her own graduation, Barrett notes that...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
laws and shareholder rights — are not well established. There's much less competition, but if you are a sharp Harvard MBA who wants to launch a start-up, many of the details will be more difficult in Latin America." Alec Oxenford of...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
happiness at 75? What are the investments I need to make so that I can be happier right now, and so I have a better shot at being happier later? So the book that I wrote, sure enough, is for career changers and mid-lifers and people who...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
picture of the pandemic and its impact on the world. Her goal, she says, is to empower people to make the best decisions to protect themselves and their families. She is the founder of MedStars, a pioneer in the health tech field that...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
are trying to do the right thing. How do we make boards even stronger? Some good ideas I've heard recently call for getting the independent directors to meet alone without management and having somebody other than the CEO lead the board,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched
on me. I really believe in this company.” But for the most part, we don’t invest if we can’t both get there. We don’t make decisions lightly. It’s an iterative process. We just invested in one company that I think we first met a year and...
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