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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
(MBA 1980) Crown This book is a fresh, intimate look at a series of American Presidents who took the nation into war and mobilized the country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In mid-June, weeks after protests against racial injustice spread globally, the Leadership Now Project—founded in 2017 by HBS alumni to fix American democracy—released the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
South Africa. He noted that his country's aim is to have a stable, democratic government like those found in the United States and Europe, but he presented the tradeoffs that must be made before such a goal can be achieved. For instance, he pointed out the fine line... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
women to the hospital. Mukhtar led improvements in the world around her. She didn’t commission a study or give advice. She confronted extremism. And if an illiterate peasant in a remote corner of Pakistan can do all that, imagine what well-educated, middle- and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
classroom was, in the words of former American Association for Higher Education president Russell Edgerton, like watching “Rostropovich and Bernstein conduct a symphony.” Six feet tall and loose-limbed, he was constantly on the move,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
but living roofs aren’t a new idea. They’ve been used in Europe for hundreds of years and were common in 19th-century sod homes across the American prairie. The recent surge of interest in green roofs stems from a modern-day concern for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
been living in an America-centric world in terms of business education and the conduct of business. The most important management practices were being developed at American companies. That’s changing. Although America will continue to be... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
set in 1972, involves a Pakistani professor, a CIA spy, an American businessman, and India’s secret development of an atomic bomb. Related events include the KGB’s influence on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government and Pakistan’s plan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
value for patients, as measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. Porter recently talked about the book. The American model of health-care delivery is largely private and competitive. Yet costs are soaring, access is restricted, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil wars. Based on a half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, itpresents the history of the conflict through the voices of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
of their talented employees by managing and developing them. It explains what it means to orient one's leadership style around a commitment to finding and cultivating high-performers. An American Journey by Mal Mixon (MBA 1968) (Smart... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
It is difficult to conceive of any policy that would be more destructive to American business innovation. Given global competition, it is not in anyone’s interest to force a union bureaucracy into businesses that must be innovative and... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
thought were well behind us as well as some brand-new ones we may never have imagined: laws that limit women’s right to access reproductive health care and brazen attacks on principals of equity, equality, and social justice,” Ely said... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly—beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
twenty years. He then identifies performance improvements initiatives that have produced impressive results and explains why they can work at scale only if American business leaders become much more engaged with K-12 performance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
recently moved into its eight-story home on West 110th Street, the room already had an air of timelessness. The wood-paneled walls were lined with portraits of great American adventurers and the trophies they had brought back from the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
to think about that, is if you had looked at a group of Americans in 1870 and described them, you would've said “American citizens.” By 1920 that group has become “American consumers.” So there's a flip. And what happens is entrepreneurs... View Details