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Harvard MBAs: When Fewer Take Jobs On Wall Street, It May Indicate A Rising Stock Market

nytimes.com | Cyrus Sanati | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Private Equity Firms, M.B.A., Financial Crisis, Soifer Consulting, Harvard Business School, Harvard, Business News

Fewer Harvard M.B.A. graduates took jobs on Wall Street this year than in the past as a result of the sharp contraction in the financial services indu...

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Patriarch of Maloney Clan, Clif Maloney, Passes On

Jim Luce | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York

Read More: Sutton Place, Brick Presbyterian Church, Nepal, Congressional Record, Park Avenue, New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, Carolyn B. Maloney, Mountain Climbing, Goldman Sachs, Leila Luce, Seven Summits, U.S. Navy, Bill Clinton, Christina Paul Maloney, New York Yacht Club, Indonesian Consulate, New York Marathon, Carole King, Clifton H.W. Maloney, Harvard Business School, Humanitarian Work, Blue Mt. Lake, Cho Oyu Mountain, Civitas, Explorer's Club, Good Stewardship, Hillary Clinton, New York State Assembly, C.H.W. Maloney & Co., Orphans International Worldwide, Chuck Schumer, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, David Dinkins, China, New York News
Jim Luce

Clif, 71, husband of Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, passed away in September after climbing one of the tallest mountains in the world, Mt. Cho Oyu, between Nepal and China.

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The Non-Profit "Business"

Brian Dickie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Business Management, Non-for-Profit, Harvard Business School, Business, Chicago Opera Theater, Economic Recovery, Economic Recession, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

Now the business schools are having a heart-searching reassessment, and putting a little more emphasis on that great subject of ethics. Or so we are told.

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Deciding How to Decide -- Making Critical Choices

Tom Alderman | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Roberto, The Art of Critical Decision Making, Into Thin Air, Bryant University, President Kennedy, President Eisenhower, Fats Waller, The Teaching Company, Harvard Business School, Mt. Everest, Bay of Pigs, Media News
Tom Alderman

Michael Roberto's unambiguous, extensive and genuinely engaging audio course is like having a heavyweight advisor on hand without the $500 hourly fee.

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Winning the War at Home

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Marines, Harvard Business School, Auto Industry, Local-Motors, Business News
Tom Matlack

Even though he's no longer in combat, he's still a commander, now in a war to save the auto industry from itself.

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Is Chrome OS a "Disruptive Innovation?"

Scott Anthony | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Disruptive Innovation, General Electric, Microsoft, Google Chrome, Harvard Business School, Nintendo Wii, Google, Tata Nano, Media News
Scott Anthony

Pundits quickly termed Google's Chrome OS "classic disruptive innovation" that promised to up-end historic market leader Microsoft. Do the pundits have it right?

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MBAs are "a Menace to Society": George Bush and Katherine Weymouth are MBAs

Charles Warner | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard MBA, Katharine Weymouth, Washington Post, Harvard Business School, Business School, George W. Bush, Business News
Charles Warner

As an entitled daughter of a privileged, powerful family, Weymouth, like Bush, did not earn her job on merit, but got it because she is a member of the Luck Sperm Club.

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On the Matter of the M.B.A. Oath

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: College Students, M.B.A., Jack Welch, Financial TImes, Enron, Ethics, Michael Skapinker, Harvard Business School, Securities and Exchange Commission, Capitalism, Journalism, Business News
Robert Teitelman

The real-life goal of management is to create wealth. The only MBA oath that makes sense should resemble that of doctors: do no harm.

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B-School Professors, Not Students, Are To Blame

Pablo Triana | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Crisis, Mba, Business School, Professors, Economic Crisis, B-Schools, Financial Crisis, Harvard Business School, Business News
Pablo Triana

Note to profs: what you did or didn't teach MBA's didn't cause the economic crisis, your indoctrination is not that important, relevant or influential.

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The Oath: An Ethics Promise at the Harvard Business School

Tom Morris | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Graduation, Harvard, Harvard Business School, Oath of Ethics, Ethics, Business Ethics, Business News
Tom Morris

The core commitments of business ethics aren't complicated in principle. But their application in the real world demands nuance, sophistication, hard thought, wisdom, skill, and consistency.

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Harvard Business School's New "M.B.A Oath": Greed Is Not Good

New York Times | LESLIE WAYNE | Posted 06.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard Business School Oath, Harvard, Harvard Business School, Hbs, Business News

When a new crop of future business leaders graduates from the Harvard Business School next week, many of them will be taking a new oath that says, in ...

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Fix the Airlines Instead of Bailing Out Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Indianapolis, Wall Street Bailout, Small Business, Sales, Ronald Reagan, Img, Faa, Business Travelers, Bailouts, Cincinnati, Travel, Airport Security, Business, Southwest Airlines, Air-Traffic-Control, Airport Delays, Memphis, Dayton, Louisville, Marketing, Kentucky, Lexington KY, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Bill Clinton, Air Traffic Control, Mark McCormick, United Airlines, Washington DC, Airports, Don McNay, Harvard Business School, American Airlines, Air Travel, Airline Industry, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Bermuda, Business Travel, Deregulation, Jimmy Carter, Entrepreneurship, Airlines, Productivity, Chris Rock, Business News
Don McNay

I used to schedule an out of town trip then meetings the next day. Now I can't. I am not sure if I will get back or if I will get home exhausted and stressed.

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Religio-Conservative Red States Secretly Love Their Blue Movies

Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Arkansas, West Virginia, xxxchurch.com, Deputy Attorney General, Sami Harb, Movies by Mail, David Ogden, Utah, Utah Child Protection Registry, Benjamin Edelman, Pornography, Mississippi, Michael Harb, Harvard Business School, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Alaska, North Dakota, Media News
Theresa Darklady Reed

The most porn-loving state in the country appears to be Utah -- you know, the state with the anti-porn "child protection registry" law and a burning, bleeding loathing for same-sex marriage.

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Red-state Residents Buy the Most Online Porn

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 04.03.2009 | Style

Read More: Walletpopcom, Harvard-Business-School, Big Love, Harvard Business School, Easy Rider, Jason Cochran, Red States, Study on Porn, Montana, Andrea-Chalupa, Jason-Cochran, Internet Porn, Hbs, Horniest State in the Union, Max Baucus, WalletPop.Com, Utah, Montana Is for Lovers, Andrea Chalupa, Harvard Research, Style News
Andrea Chalupa

I wonder how pill-popping Rush Limbaugh would explain this: a new study out of Harvard Business School finds that red-staters buy more online porn than their blue state compatriots.

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The "Poison Ivy" Growing at Harvard Business School

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business

Read More: John McCain, Unemployment, Economy, Harvard Business School, Ivy League Schools, Obama, Harvard, Business, Wall Street, Recession, Mba, Business News
Stephen Viscusi

What W. has really ruined from a business "branding" scenario is the prestige and credibility of what it means to have a Harvard Business School "brand" degree.

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Twitter Research Shows Men Follow Men, Nobody Tweets

Posted 09.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Twitter, Twitter Research, Hbs, HBS Twitter, Twitter Users, Harvard University, Harvard, Harvard Business School, Harvard Twitter, Technology News

Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter's purpose. Is Twitter a communi...

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Can GM Survive?

Steve Parker | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Buick, Rick Wagoner, Detroit Auto Show, Home Depot, Bob Lutz, General Motors, Robert Nardelli, Toyota Prius, Pontiac GTO, Plug-in Hybrids, Paris Auto Show, Energy, John McCain, Gm, Alan Mulally, Chevrolet, Beat, Volt, Duke University, Harvard Business School, Detroit Automakers, Corvette, Chrysler, Chevrolet Volt, Bmw, Ford of Europe, Holden Commodore, Cadillac, Cruze, Pontiac, Camaro, Daewoo, Oldsmobile, Cobalt, Business News
Steve Parker

John McCain visited a GM factory and said if cars like the Volt, a plug-in gas/electric hybrid GM is developing, really do make it to market (still a question mark), "hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created." He's wrong.

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Where Is Our MBA President Now?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas Prices, Bank Write Downs, Recession, Harvard Business School, Who Is to Blame, Real Estate Values, George W. Bush, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

During this economic mess, George W. Bush, our first MBA President, a graduate of the august Harvard Business School, has been on the sidelines.

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Harvard Business School's Greatest Lesson

Fortune | Geoff Colvin | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Harvard, Business School, Harvard Business School, Rick Wagoner, Jeffrey Immelt, HBS Alumni, Hbs, Business News

Does Harvard Business School have a future? Its storied past will get extra attention when the school turns 100 years old on April 8. But in a fast-ch...

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Terrorists On Wall Street

Harry Fuller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Financial Gurus, U.S. Economy, Sec, Finance, Fraud, Bonuses, Society Security, 401ks, S&L, Federal Reserve, Hedge Funds, Bailout, Regulation, 401(K), Harvard Business School, MBAs, Financial Corporations, Financial Bonuses, Federal Money Brokers, Bear Stearns, Bankruptcy, Brokerages, Business News
Harry Fuller

This is the latest in terror tactics: give me money or I blow my corporation up. The U.S. hasn't been this pathetic since Katrina.

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Zucker Signals NBC Might Be Interested In Buying The Weather Channel

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Jessica Schell, Dreamworks, Popsugar, Peacock Equity Fund, Lamdmark Communications, Jeff Zucker, Dreamworks SKG, Nbc, Jeff Zucker NBC, Harvard Business School, Jessica Schell NBC, Weather Channel, Zucker-Ism, Worldwidebiggies, Adifu, Media News

NBC U CEO Jeff Zucker says he likes the Weather Channel, but not for the $5 billion Landmark Communications is said to be seeking. "Obviously, (The We...

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B-school Confidential: MBAs May Be Obsolete

Yahoo! Finance | Penelope Trunk | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Harvard Business School, Mba, Business School, Corporate Ladder, HBS, Business News

The Master of Business Administration degree has been a holy grail for decades. If you wanted a career that mattered and didn't have the aptitude for ...

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