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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
projected to top $240 million, Allard says that the business has far exceeded expectations. Success, he admits, now looks deceptively easy. Allard knows better: “It’s the hardest thing that I’ve ever done.” — ROGER View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
the leading business school in the world, to develop the character, the values, and the leadership of its students. Everyone has to develop as a leader. No one is born a leader. You have to develop yourself. Leadership development is a process. — View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
too late to reverse course (see article). Despite their dire warnings, Pisano and Shih haven’t given up on a second act for American manufacturing. And for good reason. The can-do mentality that has pulled the nation through tough times in the past is alive and well... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be... View Details
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
With vacation season upon us, it's time to consider what good read to pack before heading out to your favorite beach or resort. I have the perfect antidote for all those mindless pulp fiction novels that fly off the shelves this time of year: two books on what's wrong... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an economist by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
Donaldson Illustration by Joe Ciardiello When William Donaldson (MBA ’58) was sworn in as the 27th chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2003, Wall Street and the commission itself were in turmoil. A wave of corporate scandals that started... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
The recent uproar over the Sierra Club’s acceptance of $26 million in undisclosed donations from an energy company prompted some environmentalists to warn against “sleeping with the enemy.” This sort of us-against-them rhetoric is all too common when it comes to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel appointed to monitor the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and powerful: bondholders put money... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
territories, there’s hardly a place on earth that hasn’t been represented in an HBS classroom. Who knows. Maybe the Class of 2012 will boost the School’s total country count even higher. Roger Thompson View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and meetings, booked 9,314 student study sessions in project rooms,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the future of the degree it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
school that looks just like an academic department elsewhere in a university — to a true professional school where we’re developing not just knowledge but also skills, purpose, and identity. To the extent that our book moves business schools in that direction, which we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
successor? It would be to continue to innovate while keeping true to the values of the institution. That, I think, is the secret to the School’s success. — Roger Thompson View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
Street Journal, the New York Times, Fast Company, and The Economist. Proof positive, she added, that “we’ve come a long way, baby.” Indeed, and the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been there every step of the way. —Roger Thompson View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business news. And I’m no stranger to the type of investment decisions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run health insurance option as creeping socialism. Unions... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Almost without notice in the American press, a new international effort is under way to create a standardized global reporting model for operating sustainable businesses in the 21st century. HBS professor Robert G. Eccles is on the steering committee of the... View Details