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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
Tierney, who moved into this comparatively luxurious setting with his wife, Susan, after he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Chile for two years. But the difference between being a student at HBS and working with farmers in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
shareholder engagement: How can shareholders move the needle? One example that Shawn and I worked on was with CalSTRS, the California pension plan for educators. Following the increase in school shootings, there was a lot of pressure on... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
he successfully implemented his ideas. When McArthur became Dean, the School was on tenuous financial footing, relying heavily on the MBA Program for revenue. He grew the publishing division and executive education offerings, both of which reinforced the School’s... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
of your revenue is going to come from 20 percent of your customers; 80 percent of the value of what you read comes from 20 percent of the text; and 80 percent of the value of your work comes from 20 percent of the effort. So when starting... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
less so. Taylor contributed to a not-for-profit to help pay airfare to bring orphans to the United States for month-long summer vacations with prospective adopting families. The program ran so well, he doubled his loan the following year. “The recycling of the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
concludes, “My brothers’ stories aren’t finished yet. And neither is mine.” JULY 1 Brothers Kevin Chenault (HBS 2021) and Ken Chenault, Jr. (MBA 2019) recently founded a nonprofit, the Anti-Racism Fund, to provide capital to organizations... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Working PapersOperational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
hard up that it’s slashing $500,000 a year in office-supply spending. With its shares near a decade low, the New York Times Company now has just 1.33 percent the market capitalization of Google. “Like most print journalists,” wrote Miami... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
shared savings and capitated arrangements and away from fee-for-service, they will be better positioned not only to withstand any COVID aftershocks but also to gain patients during the recession. Leemore S. Dafny (@LeemoreDafny) is the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
got out of business school when I was 23 and went to work for TWA for a couple years, and then went in the Army in the interim and then went to work for Easton for a year. But we were, on the lee here is Bob... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
working in Southeast Asia for a young Silicon Valley startup called Kiva, which is a microfinance lender. Haryopratomo: I was on my motorbike traveling across Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia, and I was giving out loans and I realized... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
economic situation to include greater unity in a geopolitical sense, as well. The way to build unification among European nations is to identify a natural rival, and since we already have a number of critics in Europe, we are a natural target. The EU has some View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
involved in some venture capital projects and launched my own LBO firm, MCM Capital, which has bought and sold some forty companies." Mixon remembers that when he was a schoolboy, "My teachers would sometimes ask me whom I'd like to View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting his number of investments.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
we can design and manage our most imminent environments—our neighborhoods, may they be of physical, social, or intellectual nature—to best support knowledge creation, diffusion, and performance outcomes. About the author Sean Silverthorne is editor-in-chief of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
collaborate with 90 or so different individuals from all walks of life. If I wanted to only talk to military people, I just would have stayed in the military. But my first two section mates, one was at Capital One, one was an... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
interest to torch the planet. Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, points out that insured losses from extreme weather events have risen five-fold in the last 30 years. He wonders if the financial markets face the risk of a climate “Minsky moment”—a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
recognize and foster creativity in themselves and others, Amabile maintains, "I'm not trying to teach people to be creative, though sometimes it is a by-product of my course. Rather, I help students to sustain their own creativity in the View Details