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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
particular, the changing nature of employee compensation. By taking these items into account, one could reconcile tax returns with accounting statements. In the last decade, however, a huge, unexplained difference between the two methods... View Details
- 14 Apr 2010
- News
The First African-American MBAs at HBS
was, already researched and summarized in a booklet published by the Bert King Foundation in 2008 called Making a Difference: Profiles of the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Alumni Achievement Award Recipients. To quote from the booklet:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
Forty-two million people around the globe live with HIV/AIDS; an additional 80 million may be infected by 2010, with new cases concentrated in Russia, India, China, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The scope of the epidemic is so staggering that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Image by John Weber Related Links Featured research: "Think Customers Hate Waiting? Not so Fast..." Read Director John Korn's blog Did you know? HBS alumni include... As an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, Modupe Akinola... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted it would fail. Former chairman... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
Thanks to diligent fiscal management and growth from income-producing activities, Harvard Business School finished fiscal year 2004 last June in a strong financial position. Total revenues of $309 million reflected a 5.1 percent increase over the previous year, while... View Details
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Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
repeatedly use and reference proved another effective way to keep a product’s name in the mind of the consumer. Business cards, postcards, holiday greeting cards, and books of songs, recipes, or medical advice, all created for “gratuitous distribution” View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is fueled by a mission to never have to “plug in” again. The CEO of WiTricity, a startup revolutionizing science with its magnetic resonance technology, hopes to soon relegate electrical wires and batteries to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Robots to the Rescue
STANDING TALL: Mountz flanked by colleagues Raffaello D'Andrea (left) and Pete Wurman. PHOTO BY ERIK JACOBS/BOSTON GLOBE Order fulfillment will never be the same if Mick Mountz (MBA ’96) has his way.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
Greyser, who was an MBA student of Marshall’s before becoming a longtime friend and colleague. “He would home in on the topic and not let students wriggle off their previous statements. He pursued the point by pressing them, but without... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
students would regard simply as home away from home. By all accounts, they succeeded. Angela Crispi (MBA ’90), associate dean for administration, recalls life on campus pre-Spangler. “There was so much energy in the classroom, but once... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
Public Health) found that the agreement has had little effect. In their article in the New England Journal of Medicine last August, King and Siegel analyzed trends in expenditures for advertising between 1995 and 2000 by examining fifteen... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
Illustration by Eduardo Recife The large tome looks its age, which is roughly 160 years old. Bound in leather, an average page, of which there are about 800 in the volume, includes almost 100 eye-blurring lines of pen-and-ink script. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
upward of 1,000 alumni to consider the interweaving of the public and private worlds and the impact on financial markets, innovation and technology, executive compensation, and society as a whole. The forum will feature presentations by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
help of several HBS faculty members, Wademan compiled Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind, which was published by HBS Press in May. What are some of the themes addressed in this book? I think the main theme... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
yourself an entrepreneur? Yes. It’s really at the heart of our success. Our very harsh reality is that we are in a business that is dominated by enormous global brewing conglomerates, with some of the best managers in the world, people... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Bank of America, “have literally opened the door of opportunity to thousands of young people,” says Chertavian. If those individuals did not deliver on their promise, he observes, Year Up would not be expanding. “Our success is because these young adults are economic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
CLOSING THE GAP: Bill George makes a point about how business leaders often are chosen for the wrong reasons. He’s flanked by moderator Jonathan Kelly (HBS ’08) and HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. From Enron and WorldCom to Hurricane... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
hired to jump-start a moribund division of the investment bank. Parson’s success at generating business was offset by performance reviews from supervisors and subordinates that painted him as a poor fit in the firm’s collaborative... View Details