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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Apr 2010
- News
Associate Professor Laura Alfaro Named Costa Rican Cabinet Minister
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in Costa Rican public... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- News
How People Succeed By Defying Expectations
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Laura A. Liswood (MBA '76) is cofounder and secretary-general of the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL), an independent, international organization based at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Made up of many of the world's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
focused on future direction rather than past achievements and was attended by fifty women, primarily from the 10th, 15th, and 20th Reunion classes. This new HBS lifelong learning program was designed to bring alumnae together to discuss... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
furthered at the conference, last fall HBS researchers started work on a case with the Beijing-based Cosco Group, one of the world's largest shipping companies. By this measure and many others, the conference achieved its goals. — View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
The worst you might think you'll suffer from a speed trap is a hefty ticket, but research by HBS associate professor Leslie Perlow suggests that another kind of speed trap could run your whole business into the ground. Perlow's work with... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
their travels, providing “how-to” tips for families with similar interests. After Jennifer succumbed to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in February 2003, completing the book became a labor of love for Nichols. Exotic Travel Destinations for Families was published in January... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
were transformed by outsourcing were also more prevalent overseas. If I had to guess why, I would suggest that the approach to partnerships in other countries tends to be more collaborative and less adversarial. It may have as much to do... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Jeff Balash (MBA '73/74) was one of the eighty graduates who returned to HBS for the program. photo by Justin Knight Rapid changes in technology and the shifting realities of the global marketplace make lifelong learning a necessity for... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
Amazon.com (zealously seeking government-issued patents for e-commerce innovations) and the trio of Netscape, Oracle, and Sun (bolstering the Justice Department's case against Microsoft). Historically, Spar observed, breakthrough innovations have been followed... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
CEO looks like," noted Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92) , founder and CEO of the Boston-based Center for Women & Enterprise, which coordinated the New England event along with the National Women's Business Council. A study last July by the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
The same neurochemicals that made our prehistoric ancestors flee the saber-toothed tiger now percolate in our brains when we bristle at a spouse's criticism or negative comments in a board meeting, according to research by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
The expression “letting the fox guard the henhouse” comes to mind when you first hear about Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, where a product manufacturer actually places orders for the retailer, determining quantities based upon consumption data provided View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
Advertising can be good for you! Sounds fishy to the average consumer, but it's implied by conclusions from research by HBS associate professor Bharat Anand and his colleague, Ron Shachar, of Tel Aviv... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
Volunteer Conference, there it was, staring me in the face: a case. Led by Professor Howard Stevenson, the Saturday morning session was to be a discussion on "HBS: At the Crossroads?" This wasn't some lightweight two-page case, either. It... View Details