Financial Health - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

people’s lives, not only job performance but family matters, health issues, disappointments. The most difficult issues often involve life outside the School. What accomplishments are you proudest of? When we started out ten years ago,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

rich culture and heritage, technology, and health care—what does that look like? It looks like Pine Mountain Settlement School,” he says. Marietta wastes no opportunity to interweave the seemingly disparate aspects of the social... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts

for example, buys copy paper, it knows where the trees it’s made from were cut. That means the company can create and enforce purchasing standards so it’s not unwittingly contributing to illegal logging. We’re also exploring how you create View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

national security, and increased competition for land. The $1 trillion global financial loss is staggering. Despite these challenges, the authors call attention to the extraordinary social and environmental opportunities created by... View Details

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better... View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh, just leave that job.” You could... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Father of Modern Management by Bob Buford (OPM 2, 1977) (Worthy Publishing) Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) and Stephen Baker (Portfolio) Bush, the cofounder and CEO of... View Details

28 May 2019
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Leading Questions

successful.” The assessment trend is also driven by companies that are eager for what Schlatka calls “people data.” Businesses that have long relied on customer numbers and financial reports to make important decisions have recognized... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)

Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with clients in the View Details

Keywords: fitness; wellness; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Mar 2018
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March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

depends on the ability to deliver great service. The Low Cholesterol Cookbook and Action Plan by Karen Swanson (MBA 1990) (Rockridge Press) Getting serious about heart health can be overwhelming. That’s why cardiac dietitian Jennifer... View Details

20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward

and dear to my heart.” Central to HCZ’s approach is a birth-to-college education pipeline of best-practice academic, community development, and health and wellness programs that serve 13,000 children and nearly as many adults. Recently... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

environmental damage and resource depletion. That, of course, is a serious matter in itself, but it could also cause political reactions harmful to capitalism. Other possible disruptions to the operation of capitalism were seen in the following: the global View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

with a “t.” $68 trillion of wealth transferring from baby boomers and older generations to millennials and younger generations over the next 25 years. Most studies suggest that 80 percent or more of the heirs of that wealth will look for a new View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

was tempered by lingering economic fears: one poll indicated that nearly half of all Americans expected that within a decade, another depression would devastate the country. With the health of the peacetime economy now the nation's top... View Details

27 Oct 2020
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HBS Votes

Ballou-Aares told the Financial Times. HBS Professor Michael Porter, an advisor to Leadership Now who also signed the letter, noted that “business leaders need to throw their support [behind] democratic processes at a time when public... View Details

26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?

SFP raises funds from individuals, foundations, and endowments to achieve its goals. The huge demand for organic goods such as corn, oats, and alfalfa, and the higher prices they command than traditionally grown crops, creates a dramatic increase in View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

health care—health care venture capitalists are more likely to put far more weight on the horse—it is clear that the primary determinant in investing is the jockey. It’s all about the people. There are lots of opportunities out there, but... View Details