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- 16 Feb 2010
- News
Winging It
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
he too emphasizes that making facilitating payments for essential documents and services is a routine fact of life in many countries, so much so that facilitating payments are not barred by the 1977 U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
and skilled people to accomplish what relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that managed the flow of relief supplies. IBM’s actions exemplify an emerging business idea: the vanguard company creating synergy... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
becoming the victim of its own success, according to the leaders of the Marketing unit at HBS. "Advances in technology and fundamental changes in how products and services are delivered are enabling other disciplines - such as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
administrator and financial manager for pediatric medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital. Then, in 1989, came an opportunity with UNICEF. “It was the perfect match with my interests and experience,” she says. “Doing... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
ever dreamed that frequentflier miles would become a multibillion-dollar source of incremental airline revenue," he notes. In 1982, Brierley was named vice president of sales and advertising for Pan American World Airways, where he... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
This Site’s for You
submit your best guess about what’s taking place. While we were revamping the Web site, we didn’t stop at the homepage. One of our goals was to answer your frequently asked questions. When you click on the new About Us link, you can now get quick answers to questions... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
are mandated by external agencies often win out.” Unfortunately, says Bushkin, these expensive medical record systems are incompatible with each other, and patient access is often restricted by a portal system that contains summaries, not... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
possible turnaround of this huge institution, one that affects everybody in the country. I saw it as an opportunity to bring about fundamental change at an agency that really needed it, to have an impact on a key function of government,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
amazed that we've come so far so fast," says Associate Professor David M. Upton, who has spearheaded the latest initiative with the strategic input of Clark and many others on the faculty, the services of a legion of IT professionals, and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
apprentice. (Neither parent ever mastered English, and Russo still speaks Italian with her mother.) As a schoolgirl, she was put in charge of advertising apartment vacancies, collecting rent, and even threatening evictions. Weekends were... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
African-American consumer market. Three HBS alumni were also honored with AASU awards: E. Stanley O'Neal (MBA '78), who received the Professional Achievement Award; Deborah C. Wright (MBA/JD '84), who received the Civic Commitment Award; and Nancy L. Lane (29th PMD),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
research to administrative agencies that might not have the resources to gather such data on their own. There have been instances where companies have had a huge impact on the laws that govern them. In 1998, for instance, management and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm itself, did not leave time for family and personal life. The fact... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
legal challenges by the media companies, have repeatedly ruled that the FCC’s constraints were, in effect, “arbitrary” and “capricious.” So the FCC was forced to either ease the rules or offer a stronger justification for them. On June 2, the View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
a knack for dealing effectively with government agencies and knowing "what buttons to push" to ensure that talented women were hired, including the first female chairperson of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The overall result of... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
CEO of Family Centers of Greenwich, and a member of the award committee. “[Their] commitment to elevating the performance of the nonprofit sector is having a positive impact on the thousands of lives that are touched by these agencies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s Government Technology View Details