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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
wasn’t true—there were land mines, left over from years of conflict. Those had to be cleared before cell phone towers and the maintenance roads leading to them could be built. Available maps and government statistics were often...
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Julia Hanna
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
forces, he says. “The government feels like a well-run organization, and that’s new for this country.” Changing the private sector will take longer. A whole host of structural impediments predated the populist government by several...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
the conglomerate and Mumbai business circles. Above all, family-run companies in India value loyalty and seniority. But the maneuvers worked. Over the next few years, the business started to rebound, marking a turning point for Godrej,...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Books
of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical...
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
New Course on Leadership, Values, and Corporate Accountability
After nearly two years of review and deliberation about the structure and content of the MBA required curriculum, in February Senior Associate Dean and MBA Program Chair W. Carl Kester announced several changes that will be implemented...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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The Evolving HBS Campus
The importance and value of the School’s unique residential environment has been clearly demonstrated in the nearly 100 years since the campus was first envisioned and built. Recent and current building projects are intended to enhance...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The War for Talent, by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod, presents a strategic view of what managers must do to hire and keep the best employees. Drawing on five years of research, including surveys of thirteen thousand executives and case studies of...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
directive from executives and a road map for achieving it, employees feel confident that their specific actions will be recognized and rewarded. It’s this bridge that middle managers create—translating a top-level mandate into everyday...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an envelope, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
class-action suit against the corporation) had adopted the salient structural characteristics and processes of experienced private-equity boards, I believe that many of the red flags signaling Enron’s economic woes and ethical drift would...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
mobilizing change through strong leadership. The Strategy-Focused Organization also introduces a new framework called the strategy map. By analyzing hundreds of scorecards over the last decade, Kaplan and Norton have mapped the patterns...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
impact our service and quality. How do we grow without diluting our main value proposition?” The Answers: What do you want to be when you grow up? A successful regional player in the New Jersey marketplace or a successful nationwide...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
and colleagues across HBS to develop a conceptual framework that identifies the professional and personal needs, challenges, and goals of alumni and then maps these to the School’s resources and competencies. In the first phase of our...
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Das Narayandas
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
diagnosis and treatment. We’re Crazy!: A Memoir About U.S. Values by Bert McLachlan (MBA 1959) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) McLachlan has written a personal guidebook for future generations that explains the confusion of...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Capitalism’s False Mantra
University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the “principal-agent problem.” How...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
culture and shows it at work in real-world settings. His “culture cycle” identifies policies, practices, and behaviors crucial to moving cultures forward and demonstrates how to calculate culture’s economic value through referrals,...
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Utilities
- 01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards
structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market...
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Corporate Services
- 01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care
strategies and organizational structures by health plans, providers, and system participants that are misaligned with patient value. For example, providers consolidate into groups to gain clout against insurers, even though View Details