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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
R&D lab, increased its mergers and acquisitions of companies that had synergies with the company’s businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school's gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
organizational culture can be established and communicated. An organization may have an environment that encourages casual dress to promote individuality and comfort, it could fund advanced education and training, or it could establish a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
emergence as an economic powerhouse has been the rise of the country’s private-equity and venture-capital industries over the past five years. When Renuka Ramnath (AMP 156, 1999) was appointed managing director and CEO View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
reputed to be one of the richest men of his era, donated $5 million to Harvard University in 1924 to fund the construction of the new HBS campus.... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
charge, gives away an average $310,000 in benefits over what the typical member has purchased. Not surprisingly, this Ponzi scheme collects far less of the taxes and premiums necessary to fund it. ... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
ignores all costs associated with paying for the spending such as higher taxes or increased borrowing. From the perspective of the target state, the funds are essentially free, but clearly at the national... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
student acceptance as part of its pitch to the universities. —Claudine Cohen (GMP 22, 2017) Unless the program can address the compliance component and do it significantly better than existing programs, there is little chance for traction... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
An innovative thinker who created BayBanks, one of the most successful retail banking franchises in the United States, William M. Crozier, Jr. (MBA '63) has a lot to say about the evolution of banking. As... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
want to know if I have one of these diseases?’” “Researchers think there are subtle signs that precede the known symptoms of diseases like Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s,” explains Robi Blumenstein (MBA 1984),... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
and households save and manage risk. These financial services are provided in an array of organizations and structures – from fintech startups to private credit funds to multi-trillion-dollar global banks... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
notes Clarke. “There’s such a need for these institutions to reflect the black majority population, but they lack the knowledge of the black South African community, the relationships, and the funding to do... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
a subsequent stint at Corning in Japan, Barry came to another realization—that he needed to enhance his business skills— prompting him to apply to HBS. After earning his MBA, he put his financial acumen to work in fund management at T.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
on an aggressive campaign to increase our profile abroad. The Class of 2001 will be more than one-third international, which is a huge jump. We have also increased fellowship funding by about $2.5 million... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
managed to reduce their hospital visits by 40 percent and their hospital bills by 50 percent. Several hospitals, including Boston's Massachusetts General, are now using government funding to finance better management View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
a wide variety of other activities as well. He chairs the boards of two institutions with worldwide reputations—the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Cleveland Institute of... View Details
- Profile
Elsa Sze
stressed, worried about how I would help a CEO make another five-million dollars that day. That’s not why I want to get up in the morning.” Appreciating the power of business and government together Elsa's work at the International... View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
manage funds of half a billion dollars or more now face the challenge of creating processes that are appropriate for a large team rather than individual venture capitalists, as... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s.... View Details