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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
21st century," says Stevenson, "we realize that our field is not likely to build a unifying, comprehensive theory by the time we reach that milestone." The group, however, has developed three "conceptual cornerstones" on which to base its...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
households, or masters of the universe on Wall Street, rely on their own personal experience when forming judgments about the financial future. That means the average chief executive of an investment bank was working on data going back no...
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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
performance.” I like to call it the coin-operated monkey theory of management, that all of us people, our employees, are coin-operated monkeys. You put a coin in us, we’ll do a dance for you. You put two coins and I’ll do two dances for...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
reflects the same flawed assumptions shared by many otherwise astute individuals having no experience or expertise in the power industry. I am an energy industry professional of 28 years, one who has no quarrel with nuclear in principle....
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- 02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change
battery life, and ability to store hundreds of titles, the devices launched the e-book revolution and transformed book publishing in arguably the most significant way since Gutenberg's printing press. Russ Wilcox discusses his new venture, Transatomic Power, and his...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
colleagues [at Cornell University] were studying whether spending money on experiences makes you happier than buying stuff for yourself. From those studies, we learned that—across cultures and income levels—giving is better than buying...
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April White
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
optimize use of resources, encourage knowledge exchange and development, and increase innovation. "This book grounds the concept of a differentiated network more firmly in organization theory and tests its validity more rigorously by...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
pursued a looser, more flexible organizational strategy drawing on employees' experience with previous generations of products rather than formal training. Although these differences became more pronounced between 1985 and 1995, the...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
HBX course participants at ConneXt HBS Online course participants at ConneXt When Harvard Business School Online, formerly called HBX, was first conceptualized, the goal was to create a transformational educational experience with a...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
to know that across the country, the population of ethnic consumers was growing. “I’ve always subscribed to the theory that trends are like horses,” adds Scharfman. “It’s easier to ride them in the direction they’re already going.”...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Around the World
of the School’s global journey than Professor Krishna Palepu, who arrived on campus in 1983. At the time, “most of the curriculum was based on materials that were developed using US company experiences in the US context,” recalls Palepu,...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take advantage of the informal networking she knew would take place...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at New York Public Library, he put...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
turning point in my life has put me on an unexpected path. I came to HBS as a student after serving in Korea as a missionary for the Mormon Church. That experience had left me eager for a career that would have an impact on global...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the transformation of markets. From the auction theories powering Google’s ad algorithms to the models that online retailers use to prevent internet fraud, even the most high-tech modern businesses are empowered by View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
to endow a professorship at HBS. "Harvard Business School has been very important in my life," he continues. "My experience there was the realization of a lifelong dream. I am delighted to be able to make a gesture that underscores the...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
intended both to improve the oper-ation of business by linking economic theory with practice and to serve as a showpiece for HBS research. The magazine's first decades were marked by financial losses. But in the late 1940s the School took...
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