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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant by Michel Anteby (Princeton University Press) Employees know that not every workplace regulation must be followed. When...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
time, researchers would be able to predict financial vulnerability. Enter the BFFS project, which focuses on five areas: regulation and monetary policy, measuring bubbles, extrapolation and neglected risks, the size and structure of the...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
managers who, with little of their own money at risk, were spending corporate resources on ill-conceived diversification and empire-building campaigns." "Unfortunately," Jensen concludes, "too much of the current M&A; activity falls into...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
and increasing societal inequality are. The invisible hand is, by definition, invisible. Also, tragically, in a capitalist society (but really in any system), individual or corporate greed can run amuck. Simply put, some will choose to...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
and many other emerging markets, and know the nature of mobile money — a network business in the nexus of two highly regulated industries, banking and telecoms — this is understandable." With a father who had abandoned View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety...
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Garry Emmons
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
lifetime in investment banking, met with health industry and digital record experts to learn how to make the industry more efficient. Thus, Health Record Corporation (HRC), parent company of MedKaz, was created. Passionate about his new...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Publishing Corporate governance regulates not only interactions between shareholders, management, and oversight bodies such as boards of directors, but also ensures appropriate checks and balances can...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
and his partners created SharedXpertise Media and took over Corporate Responsibility Magazine, a publication modeled on CFO and Workforce magazines. “We were betting there would be a corporate responsibility...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
clear how you solve that problem,” Ferguson said, noting that it is a topic that commands considerable attention in HBS classrooms. Another problem is that new financial regulations imposed after a crisis occurs may “impede the process of...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
applicable are skills learned at HBS for recent graduates facing real-world challenges? What are the differences and similarities for alumni who work in the private and nonprofit sectors, in large corporations vs. smaller organizations?...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
was then — stranded at the B-School with food running low. The days crawl and the years fly! Here we are 25 years later with a lot of road behind us and more road ahead of us than any other generation has ever had. This year the corporate...
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- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
It’s looking for a particular pattern, probably a credit card pattern in this case, and didn’t find it. So it keeps on, every time it finds a new pathway—it just goes down it and marches down to the next computer, to the next computer, and then on and on. The View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
now as broad in scope as the backgrounds of its practitioners. VanAuken is a case in point: He's the president of BrandForward, a consulting shop he founded in 1999 in upstate Honeoye Falls, New York, after years in the corporate world,...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a financial mania at the expense...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus (Wiley) An emerging business trend is for companies to go beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and to integrate them...
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- 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, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
rather than managing the business itself, the world of reality. To “fix the game,” five steps are necessary: put customers at the center of everything that firms do, eliminate stock-based executive compensation, rethink the role of View Details