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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
to become a center for making mobile phone components and handsets, especially products using CDMA technology, which is widely used in South Korea. Controller board MADE IN CHINA REASON U.S. companies long ago outsourced the manufacture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
capital by foot, subte (subway), bus, and bright yellow bike-share bicycles. Pedestrian-only Florida Street in Buenos Aires. (Photos courtesy of John Macomber) Professor Macomber and students at the new electric power and water... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
randomized control studies started to emerge that all showed the same surprisingly lukewarm message about the impact of microfinance on livelihoods. Natalia Rigol: People expected to see shifts in household... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect
improving the city's wastewater service. In 1997, the Philippine government enlisted Ayala Corporation to assume control of the water and sewer systems of Manila's east zone,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor have made remarkable contributions to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do. “These five distinguished alumni are role... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
Sara de Zárraga (left) and Quinn Fitzgerald When they met at HBS, Quinn Fitzgerald and Sara de Zárraga (both MBA 2017) shared their experiences as survivors of assault—and realized they wanted to create a tool to prevent future... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis’s latest book takes an inside look at The Capital Group Companies, revealing the people, practices, and values that have brought this firm... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
a case to determine whether a venture is a good or bad business. Film in general is a bad business. But producers can change that equation in their favor if they have unique access to creative material, studio distribution, or cofinancing so as to View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
and controlling stakes in the company. “It seemed we were a big fish to eat, and everybody wanted a piece of us,” she told the audience with a wry grin, going on to describe how the three fought to keep... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
The conventional wisdom is that Asian businesspeople tend to avoid confrontation and take only calculated risks. Edwin Yu is clearly breaking that mold. Last April he came out on top in the first boardroom proxy fight in South Korean history, winning View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Operational problems can be the cause of an organization’s demise. Often they can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, according to HBS associate professor V.G. Narayanan, a specialist... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
submerge nearly all of the crypto-ness under the hood, and the fact that it’s managed on a blockchain is just how they make the architecture work. The thing that will be helpful for consumers is the fact that, with these crypto... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
table.” The answers, Aloisi said, will have to come from Baker and from Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack, not from Shortsleeve, who serves as more of a chief financial officer than lead visionary. But Shortsleeve said View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Download James profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page 1942 Born, Sandusky, Ohio 1964 Earns BA, Economics, Harvard College 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins Raymond James Financial, Controller... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
and opportunities it would pose,” said McFarlan, a student in the first class Dearden taught at the School. Dearden chaired the Control faculty from 1968 to 1970 and served three times as head of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Ettus Photo Courtesy Samantha Ettus In The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2004), Samantha Ettus (MBA ’01) set out to write “a CliffsNotes for life.” Ettus, who is the founder and president View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
For consumers' benefit, why aren't companies certified as to their level of cybersecurity? Myrna Cox (MBA 1987), Calgary, Canada Security certifications might feel good at first, but they would almost certainly degrade into largely... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Whistleblower,” tells the story of Sherry Hunt, Citibank, and the frauds that caused the Great Recession. Hunt started at Citi as a mortgage quality control officer in 2004, just as the housing bubble was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
breakup of nations continues: The economic crisis and the concentration of the knowledge economy in a few cities creates enormous incentives for regions to cast off. They begin by demanding ever-greater... View Details