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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
jailed again, this time for armed robbery. After five years, the child was taken back by a member of her biological family. Two years later, as the meth crisis raged on, Langford had a phone call from Lee Shaw, formerly of Shaw...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Feb 2016
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Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
Donald Reidy (MBA 1990) is director of strategic planning and resource allocation for the Naval Special Warfare Command, in California. In this video, he talks about applying business management principles learned at HBS to his role in...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time professional...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Lessons in Leadership
insights into how to motivate people, allocate resources, and act with great integrity in moments of crisis. Second, we are now living in a turbulent time. There are new questions about where we are going as a people, as business leaders,...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes
market so that the venture capitalists can cash out their investments. To have a stock market, you need reliable financial reporting, reputable auditing bodies, and an independent financial press. Creating institutions similar to those we have in the United States...
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Judith A. Ross
- 02 Dec 2017
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Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) loved being a Broadway producer and came to HBS because she thought the live theater industry could learn a lot from other industries. She also loved her time on campus,...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
careful allocation of risks and returns among the various parties so that they have incentives to manage efficiently. Also important is the possibility for adjustments in risk allocation and responsibilities...
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- 12 Oct 2020
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MBA/DBA Alum Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
moment that was shared around the world on Twitter. The pair’s work has had far-reaching practical applications for complex situations; for example, governments around the world now rely on one of their auction formats to allocate radio...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Capturing Human Capital
Confronted with the fundamental changes that are transforming today's global business environment, a number of firms are finding it necessary to reevaluate their organizational priorities. "These are turbulent times for business as many...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
are performed to a high standard. There is a vast literature on the choices, structures, and supporting systems involved in modern management, including strategy, organization structure, planning and resource allocation, and management selection. What is not well...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the good View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
practice and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow. It wasn’t until the idea of “lean” corporations came into vogue that companies began to treat employees as just another resource to be allocated as needed. In the decades since, layoffs have...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
published by the Brookings Institution in the fall of 2020, predicted that business bankruptcies in the United States could increase as much as 140 percent that year, clogging courts and causing confusion in the allocation of capital. “We...
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April White
- 25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
million to the School in his name. With characteristic humility and honoring a process set by his predecessor, Dean Jay Light, Nohria stressed the importance of allocating these funds to advance the future priorities of his successor,...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Chaotic Funding Derails Research
time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding environment. And to do that, one needs to understand how a modern research lab operates. A typical lab has twenty to forty people, led by a senior researcher (the...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
world," she says. "There was this dichotomy that, on one hand, a pile of e-waste contains 100 to 200 times as much gold as you can find in ore from the ground, yet in the absence of the right processes, you weren't able to tap into this...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
the kingdom allocate their time and their capital. What’s more, there is no formal training for how to do their work. So how do these influential leaders practice their craft? What skills do CIOs require?...
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