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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Publishing The 2008 financial crisis triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system, which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer-funded bailouts, Canada’s banking system withstood the crisis relatively... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
high schools were really hard to crack.” At the time, Zaikos was working for the Chicago Public Schools system as part of the Broad Residency, a program created to bring management professionals into urban education, in an effort to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
relevant? —Rodrigo Abdalla (PLDA 15, 2014) REISNER: If, in spite of regulatory and political pressures, the USPS is permitted to build a long-term, trusted relationship with its carriers and customers, it can continue to change to meet that higher bar. Part of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
firm that cares about good corporate governance.” I believe the way to good corporate governance is to add only the highest quality individuals to boards. In some ways, we used to have an unspoken quota system for boards. It was that men... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
for the coming year: encourage clubs to designate an information technology officer to run Internet sessions and develop Web resources; create a system for connecting current students to clubs and communicating more efficiently when... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
Reading “For those who love history and like thinking about why our American system (with all of its flaws) kind of works, these two books help to frame how lucky we are and why the way we do things in the United States does not work so... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Gould. “The issue being that if you don’t have women executives, you’re not going to have the right candidates to move to boards.” In 2012, the United Kingdom implemented a mandatory “comply or explain” system through the UK Corporate... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
explains Wolfensohn, who speaks with quiet authority and more than a trace of his native accent. At the World Bank, Wolfensohn acted decisively to decentralize operations, root out corruption, utilize technology to improve communication, and upgrade View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Seeing the Light
spot in 1996. Today, sales at Kirlin are 300 percent higher than in 1986; the company, which designs and manufactures lighting systems for commercial, institutional, and custom residential construction, has created lighting for a full... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
structural changes in financial systems all over the world - it's easy to see why the ability to take financial securities and products, many of which never existed before, and analyze them both with respect to pricing and risk... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
much we can ask individual women to do while systemic barriers still exist. We need to make institutional and cultural changes. Have we moved beyond the need to make the business case for creating more diverse workplaces? CA: The narrow... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented immigrants to the United States.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
solutions. Consider a carousel system that can be vertical or horizontal where products come to the picker, not vice versa. It could be combined with a pick-to-light system, where lights show which bins need to be pulled and how many... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
numbers of stakeholders potentially influencing decisions, with teams and flatter organizations, and with command, control, hierarchy, and authority systems often unable to elicit crucial cooperation and commitment." In addition, he notes... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
of these elements drift out of alignment, stars may take their talent and skills elsewhere. And should they leave, experience shows that clients and other stars will often follow. The preeminent challenge, then, for a firm’s senior management is to assure that they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Removing Barriers
welcomed at HBS: The experience “broadened my horizons in ways I couldn’t have imagined,” Anita says. Indian educational institutions, she adds, are relatively homogeneous, with a pedagogical system that is centered on the top-down model... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
freshman in high school when the 9/11 attacks happened. That event had a significant impact on me,” he explains. After the Academy, he earned a master of science degree at MIT and then worked for three years at the US Air Force Space and Missile View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Dutch flower industry has responded to increasingly stringent laws restricting the release of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers into the soil and groundwater. The Dutch, he reports, have created a closed-loop greenhouse system in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management's focus extends beyond strategy, structure, and systems to purpose, processes, and people. All of the restructuring, reengineering, downsizing, and delayering that has occurred during the last decade, Bartlett attests, is the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry