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- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
occurred to me (at my customary snail’s pace) that IBM missed a PR bonanza by not making its marvelous machine a woman. But I digress. Watson’s performance at times was puzzling. The machine answered 34 questions, all correctly. Yet it...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
Batten Hall, on Western Avenue, is the totally renovated and redesigned building formerly occupied by the PBS television station WGBH. Batten Hall’s top two floors, reserved for HBS, are devoted to 10 curved, modular learning spaces...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
some truly Olympian details to take care of, including planning for 2 million spectators (joined by 3 billion television viewers, or 60 percent of the human race); 15,000 athletes and officials from 197 participating countries; 30...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
and closing ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games, a smash hit enjoyed by a global television audience of hundreds of millions. "Reindeer, sled dogs, and fiddlers were my life for an entire year," laughs the lanky, amiable Høegh. "Then...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
offices around the country that are responsible for the full spectrum of taxpayers within a geographic region, by the end of this year we'll have in place four units whose purview and expertise are tailored to specific groups of...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
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
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
Twenty five years ago, Ji Heng (MBA ’39), a Chinese national, made a special visit to Soldiers Field. A senior official at the Bank of China (BOC), Mr. Ji had returned to the School to renew old ties, as China was opening up and reaching out to the rest of the world....
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- 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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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
eleven responses and landed three interviews. “It was,” she says, “a searing experience because I felt it was totally directed at women.” Two job offers came from government — OMB and Defense — but Cohen opted for a private-sector consulting firm. After several years...
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- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
only vaguely aware of, the larger world. Today in the United States, I see the opposite happening, a closing-off of the world, in this the most media-intensive society in the world. If by “globalization,” we infer engagement with the rest...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
Family and friends, including George H.W. Bush, rallied to his side. Asked by Bush to chair his 1988 Colorado campaign, Petersmeyer was later tapped by President-elect Bush to head the new White House Office...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
president of its Americas division, a post he’s held since 2005. Believed by many to be on course to be Ford’s next CEO, Fields has had a rich apprenticeship. After graduating from Rutgers University, he joined IBM in sales and marketing...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
should become “global” by standardizing the production, distribution, and marketing of their products across all countries. Sameness meant efficiency and would be more profitable than difference. From economies of scale would flow...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice on a distant piece of city real estate that has no...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
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,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
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...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
considered the pacesetter by many online businesses. Grouf understood early on that to entice users to provide personal data, it would be both necessary and proper to offer something useful in return. With BigNote, for example, Firefly's...
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Garry Emmons
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
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...
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