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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Matrix allows users—health officials, for example—to assign weights to traditional measures that define the scale of health problems, the impact of diseases on household income, the medical and social spillovers of disease onto other View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Peer influences appear to be substitutes for direct experience: the effects are strongest for those without exposure to entrepreneurship in their family of origin, and for those who have engaged in little inter-firm mobility themselves.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS.... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
and is operationally sound.” On top of building out the business plan and managing manufacturing delays, one of the other challenges Girard faced as a new CEO was deciding what she was going to hire for and what she would do herself.... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
Kathy Giusti, from the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation; Trevor Fetter, formerly CEO of Tenet Healthcare; Ginger Graham, currently a board member with Walgreens and Proteus Biomedical; and Gail McGovern, president and CEO of the American Red Cross. The VRTs are... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
finance can play a strategic role. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406102 Governance of the Business Family Harvard Business School Note 807-020 Explains the purposes, processes,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity in Massachusetts. Among its core... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14189 Cross-Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
friends and family members to end discrimination. I graduated from Harvard feeling privileged for having received an incredible education. But unlike most of my classmates, I wasn't a full citizen of this country. Just for being gay, I... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
Pablo Picasso's legacy is a curious one in that he composed and left behind some 70,000 works of art, but never did draft a will. Thus, the divvying up of his assets has been a charged and factious exercise in a family already made... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her dual role includes overseeing... View Details
- Student-Profile
Sarah Wolfolds
When I was a senior in college, I planned to attend a PhD program in Economics to study industrial organization and potentially labor economics. I had always been interested in Economics and was intrigued by the influence of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Harvard College because I planned to return home to run the family business, a small chain of seed and feed operations in the Red River Valley, in North Dakota and Minnesota. But John Black, who taught... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
on the Brink (B): Transformation Year 1 Results Analyzes the results of the Thomas Cook turnaround plan after the first year under Harriet Green's leadership (November 2013). Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
with me on a case about NSNO, "New Schools for New Orleans 2008," which I taught in my course this past spring. Q: What are the differences between charter and traditional schools? Why were charter schools so attractive to New Orleans in its View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Offshore Wind Energy in the USA Harvard Business School Case 708-022 Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY—not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth century by individual immigrants or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
The Reflective Leader
shortcomings, failed personal relationships, or the death of a close family member. Several of my fellow alumni shared how they learned that happiness is more about balance than it is about money. Don’t get me wrong, there was also plenty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
accident, which means they are “worse than dead” because they lose their earning power and become a burden for the rest of the family to support. Raju floated the idea to various colleagues, including his friend Krishna Palepu, the Ross... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
due to partial family ownership and a consolidating market for industrial gases. Aiming to make Messer Griesheim a more attractive potential acquisition, Messer Griesheim management had drawn up a restructuring View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace