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- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
offer need-based financial aid that considerably reduces the price of our program. Read More>>> The Life and Role of a CEO Everything the CEO does is visible, and therefore requires an awareness around the potential signals his or her actions/ View Details
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
America was, is, and should be: diverse, tolerant, open-minded, and stronger as a result of our differences. Click to watch. Others such as Budweiser, Stella Artois, and Hyundai subtly pointed to the failures of government and societal fallout from funding cuts, View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection rates. “AIDS places a dramatic spotlight on the question of...
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- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
influence and pointing to the success of the company, Bruce Lowenthal said "...I would rather address the problem of board inaction when things are not going well even with a high percentage of outside representation." The views...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
might increase costs by 3–4 percent of world GDP, but the costs of inaction are far greater. She noted that, according to the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment, climate change could cost the US 10 percent of its GDP by the end of...
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- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large...
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by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
these are efforts to provide simple guideposts in a very complex process. Performance measurement can be a confusing process, leading to inaction or, worse yet, inappropriate action. Can an "ultimate question" have a useful...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
afterward, which only had the effect of inflating subsequent bubbles, most notably the housing bubble that came as a result of the easy money. So he’s just been unaware of the impact of his encouragement, and his inaction got us into the...
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- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Brooks immersed herself in HBS, resurrecting the inactive role of historian of the African-American Student Union. She also joined the Harbus Foundation and the Management Consulting and Social Enterprise clubs. She also was elected to...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
diagnosing whether a company is trapped in active inertia, selecting the right commitment, giving it traction, and avoiding mistakes that commonly derail transformation efforts. Sull maintains that inaction is rarely the cause of an...
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- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
abourt $1 billion in 2012, according to a Lux Research Report issued last year. Carbon Emissions Are Acting Globally, So Why Aren't We? Lassiter also warns of geographical myopia—discounting how local action or inaction will affect the...
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- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
and unambiguous research, he makes clear the devastating consequences of growing up poor: living in poverty, even temporarily, is detrimental to cognitive abilities, emotional control, and the overall health of children. The cost to society is incalculable. The View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
"Getting to yes is easy: all you have to do is roll over. It's getting what you want that's hard." Principle 6: Breakthrough Negotiators Build Momentum Toward Agreement Negotiations do not proceed smoothly from initiation to agreement. They ebb and flow, with...
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by Michael Watkins
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
cofounder of the global investment firm GMO, recently observed in the context of governmental inaction on climate change, “We face a form of capitalism that has hardened its focus to short-term profit maximization with little or no...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- Web
Art Nature Business
forces—and surrounded by clippings of articles on climate change, the environment, and extreme weather—the figure at the center can be read as a casualty of inaction on climate change. KEVIN COOLEYDriggs, 2008Chromogenic printSchwartz Art...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
President Trump. Thirty years of inaction on tax reform, along with significant changes in the economy and other countries’ tax policies, has made the U.S. tax system unwieldy and problematic in many ways. Most obviously, the corporate...
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by Christina Pazzanese