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- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) At the end of most days, Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) feels like he hasn’t done enough. As executive director of East Boston Social Centers (EBSC), a century-old grassroots... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
Dan Curran (MBA ’00), administrative director of the School’s Humanitarian Leadership Program. Most importantly, centralized recovery planning should take a backseat to helping survivors with immediate recovery needs, such as clearing... View Details
- Web
Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History - Creating Emerging Markets
about the use digital methodologies including video in the classroom. An important component of the event was learning from past interviews to prepare for a new set of CEM interviews planned in the region over the following twelve months, which will View Details
- 12 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Director of Strategy and Analytics at the NYC Department of Education. I learned more about the amazing change that can be catalyzed from the intersection of business and government. It was then that I also decided to apply and was... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
Braterman: The man to call when it comes to selling phones. Photo courtesy Russell Braterman When it comes to selling mobile phones to a youthful market, Phones 4u’s marketing director Russell Braterman (MBA ’00) favors ad spots during... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
education from Classes VI - VIII, a second phase of two years of vocational training, and a third phase of asking the children to pay back any loans with accrued interest. We intend to offer the product through a series of partnerships... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
a shopping mall, just as the addition of a talented director or actor can change the fortunes of a movie. There is one key difference, however. “In real estate, you’ll know about what your project is worth, in the end. Not so with films.... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
The System What hasn't changed? The temptation of standard options, among other bait. Standard options remain the dominant pay pattern in American businesses today, he said. Most academics have never favored standard options and regard... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
herself in awe of their grace under such trying circumstances. “I would go to their homes—huts called bhunga—to interview them and they would offer me a cup of chai. I’d say, ‘No, thank you’ and they would go pay for a bottle of Coke. I... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
patients during visits, plus more accurate visit notes. However, clinicians’ well-being is unfortunately not always the top priority for hospital executives. Currently, most US hospitals generate revenue based on “fee-for-service" payment models, which View Details
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
Director Masako Egawa (HBS MBA '86), working with research associates Chisato Toyama (HBS MBA '99) and Kim Eric Bettcher. This case challenges students to think about different systems of corporate governance and whether they are... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
rising stock market. Another was the use of stock options—because options are so complex, they can obscure the amount of pay actually being given to executives. In most cases where we see big excesses, it has to do with compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
finance for proven technologies and new business models. Based on student feedback about interest in this topic area, Lynn Schenk, Associate Director of the Business & Environment Initiative, proposed the idea of a SIP that built upon... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
opportunities, but also created challenges throughout their organizations. At the Multi-Channel Retail panel, speakers from three retail companies, all heavily invested in multi-channel selling, talked about how they were tailoring their strategies to best sell to... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
goals of profit and nonprofit mission do sometimes collide. When the goals complement each other, however, they bring real, unexpected, and refreshing advantages. For example, profits can bring in more than money. As non-profit director... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
encourage innovative thinking about a challenge is to deconstruct the problem, such as when a musical director makes the orchestra practice a madrigal at a snail's pace. When trying to create something new you have to do something... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
as successful. Ron Kurtz (MBA ’67) Miami, FL Private-Equity Lessons Don’t Apply Professor Malcolm Salter’s article “Enron’s Legacy” in the December issue seems to offer an “if pigs had wings” analysis of Enron’s board of directors... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
and AIDS exert such power to wreck communities and companies that they should almost be viewed as a metaphor for "disruptive technology" along the lines of the model proposed by HBS Professor Clayton Christensen in his book, The Innovator's Dilemma, said Buff... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
McArthur Hall Dedication
of the six-story, 96,000-square-foot brick building to pay tribute to McArthur, his wife, Natty, and their family, who arrived in a procession led by a bagpiper from the Boston Police Department. "This is a special day for Harvard... View Details