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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Tidy Minds
In a wide-ranging Q&A in the "Global Manager" column of the New York Times (September 2, 2012), Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA 1968), chief executive of the WPP Group, the world's largest advertising and marketing firm, had some thoughts on personnel and the hiring process.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Donor Spotlight
combining an outright gift through a family foundation with a planned gift, which, in this case, makes HBS an insurance policy beneficiary. Such creative thinking about philanthropy means more support for George Leadership Fellows, MBA students interested in View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
fourteen years later, Rwanda is looked to as a model for the rest of Africa, not the least for its successes with public health and health-care delivery. The goal of the Global Health Delivery Project is to make the first-ever systematic... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming more involved in the local public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
Judy Haberkorn (111th AMP), president of Public and Operator Services at Bell Atlantic, to Pamela A. Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89), a partner at McKinsey & Company, to Joan Helpern, president and CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, and other publications to his realistic paintings of all the major game fish in their natural habitats. Rules Are Not Enough: The Art of Good Governance in the Real World by Rupert Merson (PMD... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
and insightful, it needs to be rolled out through student organizations (clubs, the Greek system, etc.) and funded by nonprofits or grants. Another choice would be a freemium model, but that will be difficult to do without alienating the users, given the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time professional... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
Harvard President Drew Faust for the Inaugural Event, which included a morning and afternoon of case discussion, student interactions, and faculty-led alumni panel sessions. "In America and around the world, the public has lost trust in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
we have a rich set of finance electives, including courses on behavioral topics, investment management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail financial View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
one of Europe's hip cities. But Frankenberg soon realized that for an English-language paper to succeed, it would also have to appeal to the region's growing international business community. She pitched the idea for such a publication to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Healthy Profit
Illustration by Suharu Ogawa Illustration by Suharu Ogawa Luxury cruise company Royal Caribbean’s connection to public health might not be immediately apparent. “People don’t think of it as a health company, obviously,” says Professor... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism
person," as reported by CBS News. The campaign was launched through Kraft's Foundation to Combat Antisemitism and will feature public service television advertisements as well as a social media campaign.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
HBS alums Greg Avis (Summit Partners, MBA 1984), Chad Keck (Needham & Co., MBA 1976), Tom Volpe (Prudential Volpe, MBA 1976), and Tony Blenk (Everen Securities, MBA 1976), Crane led the company in acquiring 13 companies, raised four rounds of venture capital, and took... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
private life. These honorees, like their predecessors, are often in the limelight by virtue of their notable accomplishments and high-level positions in the private and public sectors. Curious about the personalities behind the famous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
This consciousness-raising book asks business students, who are usually risk-averse, to look at risk in a new way. It argues that choices they think are “safe” (lucrative jobs taken only for financial gain, service to others deferred... View Details