Bulletin Staff - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Apr 2012
News

The Portrait Project Turns Ten

For ten years, Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) has returned to HBS each spring to photograph graduating students. To celebrate the milestone, we turned the camera on the creative force behind the Portrait Project. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look, and check back next month... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin staff; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s examines interactions between health care providers and payers, as... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

07 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

In July, after ten years at the School's helm, Dean Kim B. Clark stepped down to assume the presidency of Brigham Young University-Idaho. During Clark's decade of leadership, the School became a standard-setter in the use of information technology for pedagogy—in... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff

15 Dec 2011
News

An HBS gift guide

Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and consumer products, there are... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups With more than a 40 percent increase in Alumni New Venture Contest entries this year, our 11 finalists overcame stiff competition to win their local regions. On April 23, they travel to campus to compete in the the third annual... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

01 Sep 2003
News

New Editor Takes Helm at HBS Bulletin

worked as a writer and editor with the Miami Herald and Congressional Quarterly. At Cox Interactive Media from 1999 through 2002, he launched and managed a Northern Virginia city-guide Web site aimed at one million Internet users, hiring and supervising a View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

ever-wealthier, more peaceful world economy. An international system needs to be nurtured. We can’t take it for granted—that is one thing we’ve learned. Again. This story first appeared in the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin under... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

January 2003 (Revised July 2003)
Case

Boston Automation Systems, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins

Daniel Fisher, the CFO of Boston Automation Systems, must review a number of revenue transaction accounting policies following the issuance of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Staff Accounting Bulletin 101, "Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements."... View Details

Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Policy; Financial Statements

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May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
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Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal

In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details

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01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

printed out the pages containing the results he didn’t like, highlighted the offending ads, posted them on a bulletin board on the wall of the kitchen by the pool table, and wrote THESE ADS SUCK in big letters across the top. Then he went... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

that has defined the transformational experience of an HBS MBA. "Will we continue to get the most promising young students and future leaders and attract the most remarkable faculty and staff that creates this transformational experience... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

the interests and concerns of HBS alumni worldwide to the Dean, faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School. Members work to enhance the well-being of HBS alumni and improve the ongoing education and participation of all HBS... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

offers a test case that the National Trust will learn from and scale up in other communities across the country. Here, Hansen Shapiro talks with the Bulletin about making local news sustainable, the interplay between investment and impact... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

corporate and strategic matters. Under Marram's leadership, the company has attained a prominent position in the worldwide premium juice business. Her skill in promoting growth without losing sight of her company's core competencies has put Tropicana on solid footing.... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

believed in pure evil, as personified in the psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro, in the 1991 film Cape Fear). This and the 1962 original were based on MacDonald's The Executioners and were among the few successful film or TV adaptations of his work. Photograph by Phil... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the school and the case method during his tenure as Dean. Foster, Esty and Philip B. Hoppin, “ The Harvard Business School 1908-1936 ,” Harvard Business School Bulletin , vol. XII, no. 4, July 1936, pp. 266-278. This is a history of the... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Jeff Cruikshank

and hired my former staff assistant to succeed me. Neither of us fit the job description, exactly, but the Bulletin has nevertheless survived and prospered. There really were no institutional crises during... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank

01 Jun 2020
News

All Hands on Deck

for training on how to network and interview virtually. When all classes were moved online in less than two weeks, HBS sought to ensure a dynamic, interactive experience. Some 150 staff members from across campus volunteered to serve as... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

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