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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
the $1.5-million student activities budget as vice president of student affairs during his senior year. Signing on as a fundraising campaign manager for the United Way of Toronto at the tender age of 23, he... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
recalls Fung, who had planned, like most of his classmates, to work in the United States. So it was with some reluctance in July 1972, with the ink barely dry on his diploma, that Fung answered a call from his mother to return to Hong... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
supplying us with recruiting materials." Last year the club also sponsored a visit from members of the Harvard Krokodiloes singing group, who traveled to Taiwan to raise money for the victims of the region's devastating earthquake. Born in Taiwan, Feng came to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
classmate Martin Gonzalez or Lance Armstrong, who have achieved so much in the face of adversity. I have a long way to go before I can measure up to their accomplishments.” “To be an effective team leader, you have to be pretty much... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
gamble. So there are different ways to get into the game.” In addition to offering close personal attention and care, Clay limits the size of a stallion’s “book,” selecting a limited number of quality mares from those that have applied... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
Priorities Including Financial Aid An easy way for all alumni to support financial aid is through the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. Annual gifts to the HBS Fund play a critical role in the School’s ability to meet the growing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
other birders might want to buy. Thayer hired a group of programmers to help him complete the project. “I thought I was about 90 percent done,” he recalls. “In hindsight, I was about 2 percent of the way there. It turned out that what... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
In the long run, even the most fundamental innovations have a way of being influenced by government, says Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar. That's why business leaders need political skills, too. Silverthorne: In Next: The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken carved out new ways to restructure large amounts of publicly traded debt. Gilson's research suggests that the total costs associated with Milken's method of reorganizing troubled companies were as little... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government. And as if that weren't... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
with the literature on heuristics and biases), and the study of thinking too much (as with the literature on decision analysis). In this review, we focus on the different types of decision errors that result from both modes of thought. For thinking too little, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
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City released the 'New' New York Plan focused on transforming the city's job centers to support the ways people will live and work in the future. A set of initiatives emerged to serve as a roadmap to make New York City the best place to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
emission reductions than the current regulatory approach. To keep the United States competitive with other countries, the plan would include a simple provision to impose the fee at the border on any energy intensive goods imported into... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- Portrait Project
Yong-yi Zhu
Is there a way to more easily bring families together? When I was a young child, staring out from our old, dilapidated apartment in Shanghai, the world seemed endless. My mother was studying in Paris. My father was working in Chicago. I... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
those things together.” “So we are determined, in whatever way we can, to try to get businesses to understand the kind of corrosive effects that is having on our entire economy, on everything they need to happen in our economy,” he said.... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into law... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
response." Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard and is a member of the General Management and Strategy units at HBS. Many HBS students hope to land with companies dedicated to this dual focus, said... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman