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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and the Danaher case helps me... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
join the conversation as Moss asks the class to consider possible solutions to these problems. “What does James Madison think?” he asks, reminding the class that this is 1787. This isn’t a question of what a student thinks, from her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to bolster a stressed primary care... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
health. “We’d all had experiences that left us feeling that the current health care system wasn’t serving us, as women,” Keshani says. The name Seven Starling was inspired by the flocking behavior of starlings. By following their seven... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the financial system are not understood here, then perhaps the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
concerned about what I should do with my life. I knew I wanted a career in business, but it wasn't until I was at HBS that I grasped that business could be a force for good in society. We were constantly reminded of the importance of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Baldwin and Dean Kim Clark remind readers in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Baldwin and Clark are intrigued by the underlying structure of these human-designed products and systems... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
there? SR: A lot of my work is on earlier periods, when trade wars were literally wars—when the English, say, set out to blow the Dutch out of the water, and they did. We aren’t in that world anymore, but it is a useful reminder of how... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
Governance, Adapting to a Changing Landscape, Equity and Inclusion in Action, and Partnering for Systemic Change—over four days of virtual panel discussions and case studies, and featured insights from an array of HBS faculty, alumni,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
where you stand on the political aisle, the acrimony inherent in a two-party system was disheartening at times. So if politics was my first love, entertainment and media is my second—specifically film and television. I was drawn to that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
challenge ahead is to create a system that maintains and shares stable prosperity and economic growth equitably and globally. “Today,” he said, “we are being reminded of Keynes’s famous insight, that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
hope that we do recognize how important they are. The system is still working. And it's thanks to the working class.” “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus
Ignatius (AMP 191, 2016), chief editor of Harvard Business Review. The 509-foot-long Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is the fifth of 14 ships under construction for the Navy. It is equipped with an Aegis Combat System and configured as a... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Michael Fieldhouse (AMP 177, 2009) ran past the Anderson Memorial Bridge every morning and took note of the sentiments affixed to its parapet: May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, be an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
Organizations, and Business Schools; Business History; and the Global Financial System Project. In surveying McArthur's accomplishments at HBS, readers are reminded that the former Dean's HBS experience... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
innovative IT department focused on using technology to increase citizen engagement and the efficiency of city services. Their flagship project, the Citizens Connect app (recently rebranded as BOS:311), sends residents’ issues into the city’s work order management... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
time. Yes, that’s right — we have to sell a huge number of items to generate that figure. Our average price works out to be about 80 cents because we also price many items at well under a buck, so we sell around 1.5 billion items annually. It really is a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
he’d reached at the bottom of the South Sandwich Trench; 8,376 meters—now he had surpassed the deepest point he’d ever taken the Limiting Factor, on an earlier descent to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench. His board was green—all View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
executive director to build the processes and systems to enable us to onboard and serve these organizations. Know any HBS alumni interested in jumping on board?!” What inspired the creation of PowerUP? MGA: “Austin’s profound impact on my... View Details