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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
from true private equity operations; the other is a government agency charged with creating a clean energy economy for the United States. Each opportunity will help Iris achieve her long-term goal of a career as a private equity investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
it? Tech didn’t always have a gender diversity problem, at least not by the numbers. In the early days of the industry, when computers were the size of rooms, not wristwatches, women had a significant presence in the field of computer programming: they were the coders.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
the Coosawattee Foundation had grown to become one of the largest archaeological education organizations in the United States. He told Shaw he would talk but wouldn’t be able to take on whatever he was pitching. “Ten minutes into the... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
create frames compatible with Glass, and 3) negotiating a partnership with a leading eyewear manufacturer to jointly develop and market Glass. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/google-glass/an/814102-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-084 Rail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business magazine, and your city boasts... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) had been providing for two years to a growing number of "unbanked" Hispanic nationals in the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
United States, with 14,000 employees and gross revenues of $3.8 billion. Although USG used asbestos in a small subset of its products (and never in its SHEETROCK), as more companies that were heavy users of asbestos went bankrupt, USG was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
I am a Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Recent merger transactions highlight long-simmering problems in the US... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
moderate-income families. Low-risk and low-profile, savings bonds have been around for decades, offering the dual benefit of funding the national debt while acting as a savings vehicle for millions of Americans. In "Reinventing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
raising taxes. With the Pledge, we branded the Republican Party at the national level as the party that will not raise your taxes. What are your tax reform priorities for the second Bush administration? Year one, kill the “death” estate... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
family or friends passing through Austria., you can reach Herbert at hbleier@icloud.com. MARCH 22 Event: BGIE Faculty Perspectives on the War in Ukraine Monday, March 24, 5:00-6:00pm, Virtual program Three faculty experts from the Business, Government, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
in the two banking systems can be traced to their distinct institutional and political histories. The authors argue that while Canada has preserved a Hamiltonian financial tradition, the United States has favored the populist Jacksonian... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Business School Case 709-025 In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission considered was the Federal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
Social has brought together more than 50,000 people and curated events across the United States, Europe, and Africa. “While at HBS, I plan on expanding the Elevate Social community to Boston and organizing events that bring together... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
average of 3.2 hours each workday with their children, while employed fathers spend 2.3 hours each workday. Source: The Families and Work Institute's "1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce." Karla (Rose) Middlebrooks Keeping to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
featuring women protagonists -with initial support from retired Kmart executive Marjorie Alfus and the Committee of 200 (a national organization of women business executives), the School has developed over three hundred cases that feature... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the View Details