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- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
Cong. Don Beyer, Anne Kelly (HKS 1996), Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006), Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), Prof. Michael Toffel, and Matt Sonnesyn (HKS 2002). Fifty years ago, the Clean Air Act passed the United States Congress with overwhelming...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
trigger a crippling default on an amended loan agreement, Morton has to take a hard look at the numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save...
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- 25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
moments when I am a good leader and there are moments when I am not,” he admits. Having devoted his entire career to Corning—both the company and the small town where it sits on the Chemung River—Weeks’s success is hard to miss, whether measured in employee...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
United States specializing in sales promotion, design, and direct marketing. But WPP wasn't small for long. In 1987 Sorrell made an astonishing move. Using both debt and equity, he bought one of the most famous names in the business, the...
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- 15 Aug 2017
- News
The Category Kingmaker
digital transaction management. Each was a category disruptor in its industry, became the market leader, generated significant shareholder value, and provided a series of stepping stones for this energetic entrepreneur. “The principles,...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo
organizations, Nolan says, technology has so thoroughly penetrated every aspect of the business that its activities, strategies, and functions have become transparent, thereby circumventing any possibility of the disorienting dot vertigo (symptoms of which include lack...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
her initial enthusiasm was tempered when she arrived at the School. “I had only worked on projects in a state plan but I was being told about shareholder value, equity, and management,” she recalled. “It was...
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Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
really working hard to make sure that the next global protocol — the successor to Kyoto due in 2012 — is one that the United States can commit to and that there are real mechanisms to ensure more efficient use and sourcing of energy. Is...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 2002
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Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
large part to its founder's emphasis on customer relations over shareholder value. Today, Siebel has over eight thousand employees in more than 34 countries. Fortune magazine ranked the company second in its 2001 listing of the "100...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming...
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- 16 Feb 2011
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Healthy Growth
Ayers described himself as a “principles-based leader”. “Our purpose is to create exceptional long-term value for customers, employees, and shareholders by enhancing the health and well-being of pets, livestock, and people,” he...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
CEOs several decades ago. The airline’s previous generation of leaders settled tough union negotiations, made agreements that allowed them to operate profitably and look good in the short term, and dumped their pension obligations into the future. But given View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
in shareholder value in the last few years. This value creation is simply a by-product of figuring out what consumers really want and delivering it. Tell us about Panera. It’s real food, served by real people in an engaging environment....
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims
declared. “That caused the credit markets worldwide to seize up. The system went into a state of shock.” With Lehman’s abrupt demise, Thain suddenly faced the possibility that his own troubled firm, Merrill Lynch, could be next. “To...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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The MBA Turns 100
degree’s relevance, asserting that programs have drifted too far into theory that has relatively little use in practice. And they fault business schools for turning out graduates fixated on shareholder value at the expense of all else....
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Taking Flight
Fund, he invested millions of dollars for pension fund clients. In the early 1990s, Thayer taught himself a database program that he thought could be useful for shareholder accounting. As a test exercise, he used the database to keep...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
Raised in Seoul, Yu came to the United States when he was 13. After majoring in computer science in college and following a stint as an engineer, he returned home and reclaimed his Korean nationality. Knowing that he wanted to become a...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS faculty on a variety of subjects...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Alumni Books
created so much financial devastation. The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave (MBA ’82) (Portfolio) In an industry built on celebrity, media mogul megalomania has run rampant...
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