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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Effective Leadership and Decision-Making
necessarily guarantee effective corporate leadership. Instead, he said, modesty and restraint are largely responsible for creating effective moral leaders. Badaracco listed four rules for making wise View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Lawyers for former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (MBA ’79) argued that his 2006 conviction on nineteen counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors — along with his 24-year prison sentence — should be...
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- 02 Sep 2014
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Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation
definition—exactly where to go or maybe even how to get there. Instead, a leader needs to create a community that is willing and able to do innovative problem-solving.” Willingness to innovate depends on cultivating a shared sense of purpose and values, and...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a regulation bubble. As agencies and...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Surviving Success
he asks. “How much should the company fight to keep Cirne from leaving altogether? What are the potential risks of keeping him around?” The case illustrates how the decisions a founder makes early in a venture’s life can have drastic...
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- 22 Nov 2015
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Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
research organizations and the political press to rethink labor laws for the digital age. “We have old rules about how you act as an employer,” said Ms. Sapone, 29, who started Hello Alfred with a Harvard Business School classmate. “We...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
top. Disputes often arise in the course of determining how the work of an organization should be accomplished, and these disputes must now be negotiated without the old fallback to rules and hierarchy. "We also have multiple organizations...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Annual Report
types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of accounting rules and regulations. What’s more,...
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Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand
rapidly disappearing, and those who like lording it over others or feeling immune from the rules can no longer get away with it. Status no longer confers a “Get Out of Jail Free” card, as too many indicted and convicted executives have...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
a book about what Americans do best — founding and building new businesses," writes Tedlow, the MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. "It is about men who broke old rules and made new ones, who built new worlds, who were...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
In 1993, as President Clinton's newly sworn-in Secretary of Labor, Robert B. Reich had hoped his first formal public policy decision would be a veritable home run. Instead, he found himself dealing with what appeared to be a no-win...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
Utah, she was accepted with a full scholarship to study molecular biology and dance. Suddenly, a pre-planned life became uncharted territory. From that one big decision to pursue an education in the United States, she says, came many...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells
River.) In August 2001, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) announced a ban on federal funding for research on any human embryonic stem-cell lines created after that date. The decision reflected opposition to the use and destruction of...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
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Health Care’s New Frontier
Bush Photo courtesy athenahealth Main article: Where Innovation Rules What do you do if your start-up turns out to be a little too far ahead of its time? If you’re Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), you use what you’ve learned to jump-start a...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Leaning In to Gender Equity
power. Sandberg looks at what psychologists have to say about how women lose out when it comes to power dynamics, the different rules women follow in negotiations, and the social stigma they encounter for straying too far from the...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
that decision? So when I became convinced that climate change is this moral challenge of our generation, I figured that the best way to address this issue at scale is to change the rules of the game. To work on the policies and...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions of the next seven generations." —from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing
VLACHOUTSICOS Photo courtesy of Charalambos Vlachoutsicos The year 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the seismic event that symbolized the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of communist rule in Russia...
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