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- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
may not guarantee long-lasting immunity. This is of major importance for vaccine development, because a person must produce a sufficient amount of neutralizing antibodies to be protected.” Seftel has used the weekly updates to give a sense of the broad—and constantly... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates that the ownership View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
extended, and the removal of a center wall offers a glimpse of Western Avenue in the distance. The slate tiles on the roof have been redone, and there is a new shine to the cupola. Upon entering Baker, visitors familiar with the original building will see that View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
know what I was talking about — I wanted to change that. I also wanted to understand business, one of the most powerful institutions in society, and learn about leadership and how to galvanize resources, human and otherwise.” As is the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
tick — putting structure to chaos and solving problems from big to small.” Before discovering what truly excited him, Wu was on a more traditional course. After graduating with an accounting degree from the University of Connecticut in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative shares have substantially View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market valuations. The truth has been... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
not schedule meetings that last more than an hour, or 90 minutes at the most. There are tremendous diminishing returns in lengthier meetings. When you only have an hour, you don't waste time on nonproductive tangents. You also need to think about how you View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
leadership and changed the basic structure of Wall Street, as outlined in this excerpt from the chapter “Revolution in Investment Banking.” During their time together working on the Ford offering [in 1956,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
Third, a subcommittee examined the structure and approach of the Club Officers’ Roundtable held at HBS each spring and recommended several changes, including a name change to Clubs Leadership Conference. The... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses are continually being... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
opportunities and challenges and serve as ambassadors to the alumni community. After an executive committee session and welcome reception on September 24, Jana Pompadur Kierstead, Executive Director, MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, provided an update... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the “principal-agent problem.” How... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
over and over. Additionally, because most women aren’t fashion design- ers, it reduces the overwhelming responsibility of designing some- thing from scratch. —Erica Keany Blob (MBA 2006) Change the business model, and morph into a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
I understand the dilemma. The answer depends on where revenue comes from, how your buyers and sellers are structured (regional, national, or stand-alone), and how strong the network effects are. In this case, staffing doesn’t have as much... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 that "the sheer pace of View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
When No News Isn’t Good News
give someone else so much power over you?” Seizing the initiative on soliciting feedback also provides the opportunity to structure communication in a way that makes sense for you. While a regular weekly, monthly, or quarterly session... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details