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- 17 Dec 2014
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The Sharing-Economy PR Stunt That Turned Into a Real Business
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
look at ways in which the main agriculture challenges in the country were being addressed by both the government and foreign donors. I was knee-deep in documents, sitting outside on a typically breezy,...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
What if it were possible to accurately predict and maybe even prevent the next global financial crisis? Harvard’s Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability (BFFS) Project, conceived at HBS View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Shaking Up the System
proudest achievement. Located in the building that formerly housed Evander Childs High School, once one of the most dangerous educational facilities in the country, BLS last year graduated 95 percent of its senior class, and all of those...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll
although we set the standard in South Africa and everywhere else we operate, we’ve got to do better. The second area that needed improvement was government relations. Starting first in South Africa, we’ve...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
diagnose the problem and treat it. The rescue bill calls for the government to auction banks’ distressed mortgage assets to “try to restore the price discovery process so we can figure out what these things...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Good for Laughs
If there are jokes to be found amid the wave of corporate scandals, they’re usually on the shareholders. But hey, did you hear the one about the overcompensated CEOs? “They found out that making too much money is not nearly as bad as pretending to make too much money.”...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Faculty Books
Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education by Michel Anteby (University of Chicago Press) How does HBS try to ensure that its faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Associate Professor Anteby...
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- 13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve
giving the mayor partial control of the city's schools was ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge. Luckily, Tuck was unfazed. "The schools still needed to improve, right?" Tuck says by phone. "So you take a blow, get up the next day, View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
across the globe, where government rules, regulations, labor laws, cultures, and tax structures vary significantly. The consumer sees a cool...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Big Business of Little Loans
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before launching Funding Societies, a crowdfunding platform for small businesses in Singapore and Indonesia, Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya...
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Nancy Miller
- 23 Jul 2013
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Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
high achievement, while their neighbors in other public schools were struggling. For the first time, he understood the stark contrast in public education between the upper-middle-class world he knew and impoverished neighborhoods. "It's a...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Rebel with a Cause
As a junior Episcopal minister, Bob Massie (DBA 1989) infuriated church leaders by revealing to his congregation that its $9 million endowment was secretly invested in a number of unchurchly entities, including military contractors, casinos, View Details
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Faculty Books
also knows its people, suppliers, customers, and future direction. Bower describes the inside outsider’s attributes and reveals how to recruit, nurture, and promote this...
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- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
across the globe, where government rules, regulations, labor laws, cultures, and tax structures vary significantly. The consumer sees a cool...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Iron Lady
OTEH: “Local and international investors need to understand that things have changed” in Nigeria. On the fiftieth anniversary of Nigeria’s independence, one key player who wants to see the oil-rich country truly fulfill its promise is...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
distance with only a 5 percent loss. One of Skelly’s biggest challenges is the red tape involved in convincing residents and various levels of government that more power lines are a good thing. “We think the...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
inability of democratically elected governments to deal with some of capitalism’s fallout, particularly inequality and migration as its consequence. They see their cities, as in France, becoming...
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