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7 Reasons Your Company Should Podcast

2010-02-22T13:12:08Z

If you?re still not sure what a podcast is don?t feel bad. You are one of millions of intelligent, informed people who are missing this piece of the New Media puzzle<br><br>Having excused you, now permit me to chastise you. All businesspeople should know what a podcast is, especially considering there are tens of thousands of them and their legions of listeners are growing. Podcasting can also be very beneficial to your company or you as a business professional.&am...

UP THE CREEK WHEN THAT RAINY DAY COMES

2010-02-24T06:07:44Z

<div><h1>UP THE CREEK WHEN THAT RAINY DAY COMES </h1><p>How well can Americans deal with a financial emergency? Almost half (46%) of 2,148 consumers surveyed recently said they weren't confident they could come up with $2,000 within a month in a crisis--from savings, family, friends, credit cards, or other sources. Even among those earning $100,000 to $149,000 a year, almost 25% doubted they could raise it, according to The Personal Ris...

Harvard biz grads send neutral signal on stocks

2010-02-24T08:48:20Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Harvard Business School is sending 28 percent of its 2009 graduating class onto careers in finance, a mildly bullish sign for the economy, said Ray Soifer, an independent bank consultant.</p><p>But that percentage is do...

Crisis sparks soul-searching at business schools

2010-02-25T07:16:59Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers plunged the world into financial meltdown and jolted the foundations of capitalism, business students don't just want to learn how to maximize profit for shareholders and themselves.</p><p>Instead, many talk about sustainability, et...

THE SELL-SIDE GETS A BUM RAP

2010-02-25T09:21:40Z

<div><h1> THE SELL-SIDE GETS A BUM RAP </h1><p>Sell-side analysts who work at investment banks and securities firms have a bad reputation. Critics contend their buy, sell, and hold calls are often wrong. And regulators have worried the recommendations may be biased since the banks typically collect fees for other services from the companies they rate.</p><p> But a new study suggests that sell-side analysts d...

CREATIVE BEGINNINGS IN A DOWNTURN

2010-02-26T05:14:43Z

<div><h1> CREATIVE BEGINNINGS IN A DOWNTURN </h1><p>It's easy to get depressed during a recession. But history shows that many great companies have been hatched during tough times. Everything is cheaper during a downturn. There's less competition, both from incumbents that are trying to put out their own fires and from startups that find it harder to raise money. And tough times force entrepreneurs to hustle. "Recessions can be really us...

The Old Solutions Have Become the New Problems

2010-02-26T13:48:04Z

<div><p> The idea of devising new rules for managers isn't just a casual thought or theoretical exercise for me. It's personal. That's because I spent a quarter-century as a professor at the Harvard Business School, including 15 years teaching in the MBA program. I have come to believe that much of what my colleagues and I taught has caused real suffering, suppressed wealth creation, destabi...

Harvard's MBA Oath Goes Viral

2010-02-26T21:54:41Z

<div><p> When most people think of professionals whose "purpose is to serve the greater good," MBAs don't leap to mind. That's probably part of the reason authors of a new oath for MBAs, which uses those words in the opening sentence, set such modest goals for the project. Started by 33 second-year MBA students at Harvard Business School [Twitter members despite the soaring popularity of the micro-blogging service, according to a pair of freshly-released reports.</p><p>Web analytics firm HubSpot found that nearly 55 percent of 4.5 million Twitter members monitored have never "tweeted" -- fired off concise text messages to others using the micro-blogging service.</p>...

Michael Porter on Inner-City Economics

2010-02-27T00:15:16Z

<div><p> Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter is considered the founder of the modern field of business strategy. His landmark Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors was published in 1998 and has been translated ...

THE GLOBE IS IBM'S CLASSROOM

2010-03-03T13:48:50Z

<div><h1> THE GLOBE IS IBM'S CLASSROOM </h1><p>When 10 IBM management trainees piled into a minibus in the Philippines for a weekend tour last October, the last thing they expected was to wind up local heroes. Yet that's what happened in the tiny village of Carmen. After passing a water well project, they learned the effort...

What the really smart money is buying

2010-03-02T02:47:45Z

<div id="subtitle">A $10-trillion opportunity is on the horizon</div><div><p>“I think it was Ben Graham who said, ‘This, too, shall pass.’ I think the same applies now…this, too, shall pass.” </p><p>That’s what David Dreman told me recently. </p><p>We talked about an hour after ...

IT'S TOUGH TO SHOP FOR SURGERY

2010-03-03T00:01:03Z

<div><h1> IT'S TOUGH TO SHOP FOR SURGERY </h1><p>The proposal, from Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, to let patients behave like customers and shop around contains a fatal flaw ("If Hea...

Glance at CEO Lafley

2010-03-03T02:08:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Summary of P&G CEO Lafley's Career</div><div><p>ALAN G. "A.G." LAFLEY: Chairman and chief executive of Procter &amp; Gamble Co.</p><p>AGE: 61 (Born in Keene, N.H.)</p><p>EDUCATION: Hamilton College, Harvard Business...

Technology Diffusion Critical

2010-02-27T19:50:07Z

<div><p>Harvard Business School (Boston) research into the processes of technology diffusion found:</p><p>* The average technology adoption lag across countries for new technologies has steadily declined.</p><p>* The rapid growth of technology in Japan...

Harvard's endowment grows to nearly $37 billion

2010-02-28T13:55:37Z

<div id="subtitle">Harvard's endowment survives market turbulence, leadership changes to reach nearly $37B</div><div><p>Harvard University's endowment has survived market turbulence and a transition in leadership to grow to nearly $37 billion in the recently completed fiscal year.</p><p>The nation's wealthiest university announced Friday that its...

Barbarians on the Charles

2010-03-04T03:22:14Z

<div><p>Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business SchoolBy Philip Delves BroughtonThe Penguin Press, 288 pages, $25.95 </p><p>Most of the graduates of the Harvard Business School go on to lucrative careers in banking or management. Not Philip Delves Broughton, author of Ahead of the Curve: Two Years...