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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
with the strong backing of Dean George P. Baker. The Road to Someplace Better charts Lambert’s life from her humble upbringing on a Virginia farm (which didn’t get electricity until she was eight) to her founding of Centennial One Inc., a janitorial-services View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
which took the top prize in the social enterprise track, seeks to eliminate functional illiteracy in India by enabling poor children to stay in school for several years beyond the fifth grade â¹ a time when many drop out to help support their families. Contest winners... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
In Brief
Q&A with Steve Schwarzman. Private-equity firms have been on an acquisitions binge of late, and leading the pack is The Blackstone Group, headed by CEO Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72). He talks about the buyout business and where it is headed.... View Details
- October 1999 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
VITAS: Innovative Hospice Care
VITAS, a for-profit hospice, has grown through acquisitions and start-ups. The company considers a rollup strategy, and Deirdre Lawe must decide whether to make a particular acquisition. View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; For-Profit Firms; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Service Industry
Hallowell, Roger H., and Tonicia C. Hampton. "VITAS: Innovative Hospice Care." Harvard Business School Case 800-031, October 1999. (Revised November 1999.)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Transforming Baker Library
compact shelving “stacks” that are both temperature- and humidity-controlled and protected from other harmful effects such as ultraviolet rays and vermin. The firm Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott began developing the concept for... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- News
A Winning Formula
primarily the innovative leaders of midmarket, high-growth firms looking to take their organizations to the next level.” Ramos, who sees these innovators as being just as entrepreneurial as start-up founders, enjoys the diversity of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
In the course of their outstanding professional careers, this year’s five recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award — the School’s highest honor — have had an enormous impact on the world of business. A surprising key to their success?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
show how Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and other firms adroitly managed cross-border differences and how others failed at this challenge. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton University Press) Associate... View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
missing the consequences and longer-term effects.” UNEQUAL PAY FALLOUT Partnerships remain key to the way the professional service and investment sectors are run. Previous research has shown that the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
coordination between the Web, the phones, and our service centers. We let people pick the service they're comfortable with, including face-to-face advice." Fidelity's Bruce Johnstone says his View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
scope and professionalism. They include the annual Global Leadership Forum, career services and lifelong learning programs for alumni, and a vibrant reunion program that is the envy of other professional... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
professorship is both a tribute to Fitzhugh's career and a means for HBS to build upon his efforts by attracting and retaining faculty whose research focuses on issues of diversity. "Naylor Fitzhugh was a pioneer in his professional... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations than in the past. The authors present a broad framework suited to such complexity and identify four critical activities for effective leadership of View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
When you look at two of the biggest developments in business in the last 25 years — globalization and the Internet — Jeanne P. Jackson has been right in the thick of it. Before launching her own small investment and consulting firm last... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault
have an obligation to do things the right way — to conserve, renew, and enhance society’s resources, not just consume them.” A 26-year veteran of American Express, the last six as chairman and CEO, Chenault posed this leadership challenge: “I urge you to put View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Alumni Relations Gets a New Director
In her new role as director of Alumni Relations, Stephanie Goff wants to increase the opportunities for alumni to interact with the School. “We have been known as a reunion planning office, and that’s great,” explains Goff. In fact, HBS reunions are the envy of many... View Details
- Profile
Lauren Burrows
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I sought my MBA at HBS at a key moment of transition in my career, both in terms of industry focus and position. I was committed to pursuing a career in the energy industry, but wasn’t entirely sure what form I wanted... View Details
Robert A. Pinkerton II
Pinkerton grew his grandfather's private investigating firm into a large security services company, providing such new services as event security, jewel thief investigation,... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Alumni, chaired by Edward F. ("Ted") Fischer (71st PMD), is addressing how best to connect with recent graduates and also how best to inform current students about the services and programs available to them when they graduate. The group... View Details