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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
hundreds of billions annually into western coffers.” Recently, due to its opacity and ease of incorporation (of dummy as well as legitimate companies), Britain’s independent Tax Justice Network placed the state of Delaware at the top of...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
value and revenues.” (In addition to his duties as Cardinals’ chairman, DeWitt serves on the Major League Baseball Executive Council and the Ownership Committee, and holds a seat on the board of MLB Advanced Media.) In 1995, when DeWitt...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
promise of better charging infrastructure, and evolving trends in foreign markets all indicate that EVs are approaching a global tipping point. But with political winds imperiling government incentives in the United States and China...
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- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground
Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Students at Harvard Business Schools are taking their education to the streets of Boston to help small entrepreneurs build...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
something that will take years.” Home Ownership: Back to Basics HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered a historical perspective on U.S....
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- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to go out and sell himself. "Traditional...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six...
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- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
outcome for the child. "SynapDx is doing very well and completing a large clinical study thanks to a $15 million investment from Google Ventures," says Anquetil, who retains an ownership stake in the company but is no longer involved in...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
depend on. "How do you go from a state of corruption to an orderly market?" says David E. Bell, successor to Ray Goldberg as the Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business. "I think it has to start with you and me trusting each other....
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
learn how to support these sorts of shared business models? If you were the CEO of an insurance company, how would you address the conflicts between this model (splitting ownership and usage) and the traditional, well understood, and...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Karen Tumulty Reports on America
issue of media conglomerates, Tumulty says, "I don't worry too much about corporate ownership creating biased reporting or editorial pressure, but I do have concerns about the drive for bottom-line profitability. That's caused the closing...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of funds to finance the expansion is in your pricing model. Using...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
pioneering inventions — from the first mass-produced economy car to the push-button radio — and breakthroughs in broadcasting and advertising made them wealthy and famous, as did their ownership of the Cincinnati Reds.
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
to the institution who have a collective responsibility and ownership for what it is to become. That is how I’ve always thought about it. I saw myself as managing the process by which the senior partners thought about where we wanted to...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories...
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- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Daniel, is that today, out of all of the racial and ethnic groups in America, the home ownership of Blacks is at the lowest. And it's not because Blacks are less qualified for those mortgages, it is all as a result of anti-Black...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor
and consequences. Boards and managers cannot simply be regulated into managing their companies in a responsible manner. Here’s an idea we might try. The United States has gotten a lot of mileage out of having a constitution, a set of...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector decision-makers in the United View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the uninsured; reform of state regulation, which one participant...
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