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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
James A. Henderson (MBA '63) is chairman and CEO of Indiana-based Cummins Engine Company, one of America's most respected industrial corporations. Prior to joining Cummins, where he has worked for more than thirty years, Henderson, who graduated from HBS with high... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
School can serve you. Here is a brief summary of our work thus far this year. Online Services for Alumni This committee has identified the following specific goals to accomplish by its spring meeting: increase the number of e-mail addresses the School has on file for... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
March 2016 We can achieve presence when we need it, Cuddy argues, through a combination of body postures, behavior, and mindset, which activate chemical changes in the body. Expansive “power poses” can cause testosterone levels to rise... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
in those states as well. Kerr: Okay. One of the other bodies of research you’ve been doing has been with the Burning Glass Institute, and you’ve looked a lot at underemployment among college graduates. So tell us a little bit about the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) is seeing things. Standing at the edge of Beira Lake, an algae-choked body of water in the heart of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, he envisions people and restaurants—like New York’s South Street Seaport, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
the hum and clunk as blackboards rumble into position, the urgent tap-tap-tapping of chalk as an important point is recorded by the instructor. I see how the professor’s body language and a student’s tone of voice convey subtle messages.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
particular medical conditions. A recent report shows that Medicare costs for identical conditions vary greatly from state to state, and even within states, with no apparent difference in the quality of care. How do you explain those differences? These findings are just... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
"Ranger Bolick, you have the heart of a lion, but your body just isn't keeping up. Hang in there; you have what it takes." Scott Bolick will never forget those words. In 1990, fresh out of West Point, he was struggling through the Army's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
measure, however, begs the question of who should do the measuring? The Congressional Oversight Panel saw merit in several options. The regulator “could be an existing agency, such as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a new agency, or a coordinating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
movement, on average. It was quite controversial. When we tell microfinance practitioners about this evidence, it can be hard for them to really engage with it because of their work on the ground and the anecdotes they hear about lives that have been transformed. Roth:... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
ground. After establishing an audience, then adding targeted ads and affiliate marketing, Patel aims to build a “commenting platform 2.0,” he says. Media companies could license the product to enable more robust user-generated discussion within the View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
increasing economic efficiency and improving government finances. Yet, privatization does not imply the disappearance of government from the affected sector. In many cases," says Emmons, "the reduction in state ownership is accompanied by the establishment of new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
leave them behind, they need to be placed in a different setting. As for the rest, most students feel that showing up for class, at any time, is sufficient to pass, and if they participate, they’re thinking honor roll. The attrition rate is high: The student View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
“the political folks made a decision to get people in the system first and then fight about cost later.” Wcislo serves on the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority (“the Connector”), an eleven-person body with representatives... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
a significant body of teaching material and the creation of new courses. There currently are six elective courses in entrepreneurial management in the MBA curriculum with combined annual enrollments of over 1,100. Seventeen faculty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Press) Faced with thousands of studies, theories, frameworks, tools, and best practices in the discipline of leadership — an enormous, confusing body of knowledge — how does one learn to become a better leader? To find the essentials of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
took his life yesterday. There's a degree of trauma in the body and in the heart of so many people in my generation because the basic sense of trust and security has been ripped away from us, and that happened a long time ago. But there's... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
lifespan of an organ after it is removed from the body is measured in hours, which means that transplants are more available in densely populated areas within easy reach of medical care. But what if the viability of an organ destined for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Hightower notes that today's student body represents a far greater range of ages and cultures than in 1972. "As a teacher, I find that the quality of discussions are much richer because they reflect a wider range of cultural viewpoints... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
as a young HBS grad working for Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco, Perez de Leza was mostly looking for ways to strengthen his body and stay healthy. He took up hand-crank cycling, and then discovered adaptive skiing at a program... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli