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- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
occurred to me (at my customary snail’s pace) that IBM missed a PR bonanza by not making its marvelous machine a woman. But I digress. Watson’s performance at times was puzzling. The machine answered 34 questions, all correctly. Yet it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
magazine’s poll of money managers. She eventually went on to serve as global head of research, where she helped design and build DLJ’s global equity research business. Decker’s next move was to one of the... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Tetsuji Shibayama (MBA 1990) is helping Japanese businesses understand the importance of art to their corporate cultures and their bottom lines, while also introducing art students to the principles and practices—and the ready market—of the business world. After a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders by Max Anderson (MPA/MBA ’09) and Peter Escher (MBA ’09) (Portfolio) The MBA Oath has become a worldwide movement for a new generation of leaders who care about society as well... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
organization’s funding come from? We raise funds through our alumni, principally for scholarships for kids. What is awesome to me is that there are hundreds of men and women who have generously given their time and View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
He actually sympathized and sent $8,300 in compensation. Mukhtar didn’t spend the money on a fancy vacation or on iPods for her and her family. Instead, she invested in a school for girls. When the New York View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
traditional forms of career advancement. After eight years with the company, he decided to go to HBS. “The idea came from my time as an intern at Digital Equipment Corp. in the United States while I was a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
on the project’s new Web site: www.hbs.edu/centennial/im/. It’s participatory history in the making and available to anyone who has an HBS story to tell. The Web site also features a multimedia history of HBS, a gallery of historical photos, and an interactive View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Turning Point: Getting to Giving
classes I teach at our church. Now I talk to people about money all the time. At HBS, Professor Malcolm Salter gave us this advice in our last class together: “Live beneath your means.” At the time it struck... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
what we do,” says Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002), the chief commercial officer for BoxLock. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to do things right in the midst of a pandemic. Atlanta-based BoxLock began View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
EHR system. The scan might as well be stuck in a manila folder. “The biggest problem with health care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
convertible preferred stock? Why do they stage the commitment of capital? Why do they intervene and try to be helpful—or in some cases, screw things up? “So our thinking got sharper. Yes, from whom you raise money can be View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 09 Jun 2011
- News
The Tycoons, HBS's First A Cappella Group
bawdy "Princess Poopooli". For a time in the 1960s, the Tycoons sang two staples in every concert: the Money song (the group's theme song, unknown to me) and Tom Lehrer's "hymn" to the MTA. I find no trace... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
see me as somebody who's a little different. How do your business activities compare with being a senator? In business, things have a beginning, a middle, and an end. In the Senate, there is always another chance and another View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with telecommunications as its core service.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact by Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, and Richard W. Beatty (MBA ’81) (Harvard Business Press) Many companies spend too much time and View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Sounds Like a Plan
notepad and we started drinking wine, and we switched to Scotch, and we just started to endeavor to write down everything that was brain-dead about the airline.” The result was the one-page Go Forward Plan, with easy-to-understand guidelines, such View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
afford a watch like that." And I'm thinking, here's a guy who is making tons and tons of money and he wishes he could afford a Rolex watch like the one I had on. It was clear to me that he knew I couldn't afford that, and it was a fake... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run health insurance option View Details