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- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see....
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
serious player. The merger with Bank of Boston got us up to a required level of significance on the nationwide landscape." Now the rules of the game may have changed again. Commenting on the recent proposed megamerger between Citicorp and...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Airlines, the mayor of Houston, Houston's leading entrepreneurs, HBS faculty members, and distinguished CEOs from energy, technology, and industrial fields. "The way we keep the membership interested in the club is by having great...
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Amy E. Dean
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
7,000 messages a day in subtle ways, not so subtle ways. And it's everything from things they hear on the radio or other music they're listening to T-shirts people are wearing to video games to things they're seeing online. And so to cut...
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- 25 May 2011
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Race to the Finish?
economies getting behind the wheel in the coming years, automakers have an added responsibility: For the industry to maintain its social license to operate, it must ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the world’s climate...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before, During, and After a View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
professional athletes, the top performers in any industry — make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about pay-for-performance is that pay packages had no built-in control for the general rise in all stock...
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Garry Emmons
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis. It’s early, but test and learning results are promising. Here’s what happens: Students spend part of class time—and some time at home—working at their own pace on videos and exercises. They get immediate...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
happens: Students spend part of class time—and some time at home—working at their own pace on videos and exercises. They get immediate feedback, and there are game mechanics—points and badges—to give even more motivation. Every...
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- 20 Dec 2018
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Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
acquisitions, and exploring literature on thought leadership. But many didn’t realize they had access to Baker and wanted to know how to navigate all that it offers. The webinar showed participants how to find information on any business topic, including trends and...
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Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides industry expertise on national security preparedness. Over that time, cybersecurity has snowballed from a back-office IT function to one...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a...
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Garry Emmons
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
societal returns. Lassiter reminded the room that there are many levers that can be played in the game, but that the game is playing out at a rapid pace. Lehr, from National Grid, talked about finding that sweet spot when it comes to...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor
with a sharp pencil. I would urge all of us involved in international trade and tax accounting to do what we can to make the old shell game a game not worth the candle, just as GlaxoSmithKline learned in...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
by the industry we regulate. So this was a historic moment to come into this job. In addition, the SEC itself recently had been through some tough times, so it seemed like the agency was in need of new leadership. Not long after you...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
surprising that the venture capital industry was essentially dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up
Cenedella tried several other ideas for job-industry companies before he came up with the idea for TheLadders. Michel spent years searching for the right business idea — even helping to start a pharmaceutical industry computer firm —...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
environmental management, industrial policy, minerals management, and venture capital. A Trip Worth Taking In addition to the academic content of the conference, delegates were invited to a Cape Malay street festival, a dinner at the...
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Susan Young
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
McDonald’s gift certificates every Christmas. Flatley would usually head to McDonald’s with her mom and siblings after gymnastics class—a special, happy family moment amidst the chaos of crammed schedules. Cunningham’s local McDonald’s was a go-to post-soccer View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
car company. You need to go to business school.” In 2006, during his first year at HBS, Rogers sought out sectionmate Jeff Jones (MBA 2007), who had just left a job at Ford. On a run along the Charles one day, Jones laid out the state of the automotive View Details