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- 06 May 2008
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Small World? Read Nil about It
The word “globalization” is bandied about so often, it has taken on a life of its own. Opinions differ as to whether it’s good, bad, or something in between. Yet everyone seems to agree that globalization has made the world smaller and its people more closely...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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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...
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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...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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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...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership
investment banking as an industry.” —Edited by Garry Emmons Charles D. (“Charley”) Ellis Ellis Charley Ellis was managing partner of Greenwich Associates for thirty years, in which capacity, as a strategy...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
wars. Overall, the picture looks good. However, we must also be aware that the political response to issues such as wealth disparity, the environment, security, and rule of law have the capacity to undermine capitalism and thus undermine this progress. — View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment The Earth At Night, 2009: Cities may occupy just 2 percent of the planet’s landmass but they hold half the world’s people and produce much of its carbon emissions. Image by NASA/Corbis Issue Focus The Business and Environment...
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- 17 Mar 2011
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Make or Break for the USA?
As the global economy grows ever more competitive, American manufacturing is at a critical juncture. The country has been surrendering jobs, production capacity, and know-how to other countries at an alarming rate. The answers to this dilemma aren’t as obvious as they...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
much as possible, and for him I think the Vendée Globe is a question of doing it right and making it to the finish.” Doing it right and finishing the job, no matter what the adversity. That’s Rich Wilson. The Vendée-obsessed French public will tell you he’s a great...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
they apparently do not look solely to the wooing of ocean travelers for the large gains they expect to make in the future. —Edited by Garry Emmons Nancy F. Koehn Nancy Koehn is an authority on the social and...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the word seems to subvert and...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Larry Murphy
It was reading a Life magazine article (Ann Moore, take note) about Eastern colleges that helped propel Lawrence P. Murphy from a small town in Missouri to Williams College, followed by HBS. In 1985, after positions at Citibank, Bain, and Marriott, Murphy was hired by...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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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...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
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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...
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Garry Emmons
- 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...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
Professors Lorsch, Palepu, Kanter, Healy, Koehn, and Hall. Spangler Center, Fall 2002. Photography by Webb Chappell. With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to...
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Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2008
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The Right Stuff
A few weeks ago, HBS threw a party for some neighbors — the 12-0 Brighton High School Division 4 Super Bowl football champions. Most everything about HBS is high profile, but the School also does generous, thoughtful things that a lot of people never hear about. This...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
Not so long ago, its practitioners were considered a risk-taking breed apart and teaching it was viewed as an academic career-killer. But then entrepreneurship came in from the cold, thanks in large part to a maverick true believer named Howard Stevenson. Issue Focus:...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
Sports in America have always had a magical, transcendent allure. Life may be ambiguous but slam dunks and touchdown passes create their own heroic reality and final truth at game's end. Sports are a bond that brings entire communities and families together, to live...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year, however, one of America's most...
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