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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
over the years. The importance of women as consumers, in particular, has led to a long-standing critique of the industry as an instrument for the oppression of women by men (and their corporations). Feminist writers have regularly blamed...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
there was a horrible blizzard the weekend of Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and you're also View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
his response, Arsalan begins with an analysis of what has gone wrong. He addresses the belief of some that Islam itself is to blame for the backwardness of Muslims. He gives examples of how advanced nations progressed while holding firmly...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2003
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Books
devastating assets of individual stockholders when these accounting deceptions surfaced. Mills initially explores how the mechanisms that should have protected investors failed. He lays the lion’s share of blame at the feet of CEOs whose...
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- 11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
first, and those of himself or herself last. It follows then that a great leader is first to take the blame and last to take recognition. This permeates the Marine culture, and still helps guide and inform my decisions and actions...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
said he was surprised when presidential candidate John McCain blamed the nation’s financial crisis on “greed and corruption on Wall Street.” “I don’t think corruption is a major part of the story,” he observed. “Certainly, there were...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
a jumper in 1997. A rider since the age of 10 (“I blame my mother for getting me into it”), Minard saw great potential in Westley. But the horse suffered from a degenerative eye disease that could lead to blindness. The vet advised Minard...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
of employees, entire organizations vanish. The vanishing act cannot be blamed solely on competitive forces. Most organizations that self-destruct experience failure because employees were not committed to the mission and direction of the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Then jobs are lost, and the unions blame someone else. Ron DiLiddo (PMD 50, 1985) Rochester, MI Document HBS’s Role in Crisis I was happy to read in the March issue that the financial crisis has motivated HBS to write cases on the topic...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into...
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- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
I'm wired for blame and guilt, I'm afraid. So I'm a tough case, but years, I mean, most of the '90s. Yeah, they were wilderness years. It was tough. It's like, how could I do it? And I've largely moved on from that. It's like, yeah, I'm...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
distress for which critics blamed corporate managers, who were characterized in the media as “unaccountable plutocrats.” Out of this economic turmoil emerged a new view of American capitalism. So-called agency theory, developed and...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
China, whether over trade, Taiwan, Tibet, or some other as yet subliminal issue. The scenario may seem implausible. Yet it is easy to see how future historians could retrospectively construct plausible chains of causation to explain such a turn of events. The advocates...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
of US workers hate their jobs and don’t want to show up on Monday morning, and Slater lays some of the blame for this at the doors of leaders: When their selfish actions diminish the effectiveness of their teams, they commit the ultimate...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
were blamed for the Estonia disaster, Bemis believes foul play was involved, based on evidence gathered during an unauthorized dive he made to the wreck in 2000. (There is a warrant for his arrest in Sweden as a result.) In the case of...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
blames the music industry's recent problems, perhaps ironically, on the compact disc. In the early 1980s, this little piece of hardware rescued the music business from the lethargy of the post-disco era - the industry's only other down...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
feels like a fairly traumatic time in world history as a result of the pandemic, increasing vectors of inequality, and the looming threat of climate change. And at this moment, business is playing a strangely two-headed role. On the one hand, there are people who View Details
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April White