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01 Jan 2007
News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

home. A discussion of world events would follow. "We were very well informed as kids," remarks Wyss, who maintains an active interest in policy and geopolitical issues. That knowledge of the world came in handy in the early years of... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

Loyalty, and Maximize Profits by John A. Goodman (MBA ’71) (Amacom) Managing the Publishing Process by Ralph Hancox (PMD 26, 1973) (CCSP Press) Cured! The Insider's Handbook for Health Care Reform by Stephen S.S. Hyde (MBA ’71) (HobNob... View Details

09 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 9

communication and engagement practices, can encourage frontline workers to conduct problem solving. We test our hypotheses in the health care context, in which the use of incident reporting systems to highlight operational failures is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

plans, we find collaborative engagement of the functions to be a consistent process feature and operational norm encouraged and maintained by integrators. In particular, the information processing nature of the sales and operations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

In July, after ten years at the School's helm, Dean Kim B. Clark stepped down to assume the presidency of Brigham Young University-Idaho. During Clark's decade of leadership, the School became a standard-setter in the use of information... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff

08 Aug 2013
News

Cause Marketing Gets Personal

Amy Schiffman Langer "My life experiences inform my work, and vice versa," says Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977). She has turned physical challenges—breast cancer, a disability, and chronic pain—into a focus on cause-marketing and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

or a resource-based problem-- so that all the stakeholders can succeed. I've had an additional career in health care. I've been the CEO of my local hospital, and I took these same principles forward there. And instead of looking for blame... View Details

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission, is based on the notion that cash held in overseas locations is not instantly available to meet firms’ liquidity needs. We test this proposition and find evidence consistent with the notion... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

required to disclose any whiff of misbehavior to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an independent monitoring organization regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A research team examined those records to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Feb 1998
News

Not Your Typical Business Conference

Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech... View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

expertise will continue to be the bedrock of the academy but the boundaries that separate schools and faculties will melt away. This trend has already taken hold at Harvard, where faculty from across the University are building formal and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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23 Feb 2016
First Look

February 23, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50625 February 2016 Harvard Business Review The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery By: Hamermesh, Richard G., Robert S. Huckman, Barbara McNeil, Joseph P. Newhouse,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2025
Blog Post

In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success

the transition between personal and professional time. Health & Wellness: Support the Whole Person A sustainable work-from-home setup supports both physical comfort and mental health. Avoid working from the couch or kitchen counter... View Details

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

unconcerned. Engagement on various applications on the Facebook platform is up. Users appear comfortable with the trade they make to give up privileged information in exchange for a range of convenient and... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details

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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

very crowded calendars precisely because this area is important to them, and yet they don’t often get asked about their deepest commitments and influences that inform their leadership. Why Should You Take This Course? The following are... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

series of ecosystems, they urge, with "keystone" companies such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart providing for the health of all who do business with them. What are the best strategies for companies living in these ecosystems? This... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

detailed information about what the course program fee includes and excludes, as well as information about student accommodations, please visit the GEO website or email geo@hbs.edu . GEO continuously... View Details

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the earnings... View Details

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