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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
have an obligation to do something with that, to participate in various activities and to donate where appropriate to help others. Punctuality, good manners, physical fitness, a positive attitude, a sense of responsibility, and a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entrepreneurship especially, it is essential to perceive opportunities that others have not, and to pursue them in novel yet appropriate ways at every stage of the game. Such creative solutions will be necessary for managers to help solve... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
with a growing middle class in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. We hope to become the world's newest 'tiger states.' Bureaucracy and lack of appropriate infrastructure are challenges, but most African countries are now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
have been some suggestions that insurers should look back at their historical hospital spending and transfer a commensurate amount of money to hospitals during this crisis. There are different health care needs right now, and it is View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
that vision is an important part of any nonprofit and for-profit strategy. Then you can go back and see if it has the potential to be scalable, if it’s going to have sufficient impact, if the management team is solid, and if there’s an View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
appropriate federal forms, which can sometimes exceed 600 pages, and independent immigration attorneys review the applications to ensure all the necessary supporting documents are included. The company tracks the application through... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Switzerland, to "spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The September cohort of the Class of 1998 has arrived on campus, and with the new academic year starts a fresh term for the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since the Board represents over 60,000 HBS alumni, I thought it would be appropriate to... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
discussing their findings, Shleifer and Johnson combined business and economic statistics from these nations to illustrate the levels of investor protection achieved by the disparate models. Establishing appropriate legal support for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
and the moral hazard associated with that. Or the additional capital and regulatory requirements will put these firms at a disadvantage relative to their competitors, and you will have weakened the firms that you believe to be systemically significant. Neither is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis (integrating profit planning,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
assumptions built into my portfolio to weather the storms? These are basic questions, but questions that have been mostly ignored over the past several years. What do you recommend as an appropriate mix for the portfolios of the high... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
business and social-sector organizations that offers hope for innovative solutions to some of society's most pressing challenges. Your class has chosen to focus its gift on the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. What is it about your life and times that makes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
too. Perhaps they can offset the upfront cost of capital until order volume reaches the appropriate tipping point. The company can purchase inventory with a traditional financial vehicle from there. —Brad Cowdrey (OPM 49, 2017) I... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
and the appropriate policies and programs for research, innovation, and the commercialization of new technology. This debate has only intensified as policymakers focus on new sources of innovation and growth in light of the recent... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
concern for civil rights at home or creating civilian casualties overseas? The President has to find an appropriate balance between taking steps that are effective and respecting our civil liberties. Abraham Lincoln posed the central... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
if we are holding investments in companies for a period of three or five years, or in many cases seven or ten years, it’s appropriate for any gains that might be generated on those investments to be taxed at a lower rate than ordinary... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of... View Details