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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Mall — it is not surprising that 80 percent of the museum's visitors are not from the D.C. metropolitan area. "Unlike other museums," observes Bob Fri, "we don't need to get on the treadmill of constantly changing our temporary exhibits... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
she would publish it, but when she woke up, she changed her mind and put it on Facebook. In Lean In, Sandberg had admitted to crying at work (another confession the media jumped on), but this was the first time she’d shared anything so... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
to be service-oriented volunteer leaders in their communities. I want to see our programs expand to markets that we are not yet in. And I want to see our efforts help to change the narrative about America’s veterans; that they are a force... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social scientist with a PhD in public... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Carroll has increased operating profits and decreased debt. “Once we started partnering with the local communities, unions, and governments, we saw a positive change in performance,” she observes. A mother of four whose husband gave up... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
groups, I may never convince them that we’re doing good things in Iraq, but the fact that we’re interested enough to talk and listen to them is really important. How does your business background translate to the world of diplomacy? Although you appear to be the CEO of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
of goods and services. Progress is slow, and estimates are that it will be years before any substantive change is seen. Some even fear that India’s escalating population will overwhelm any improvements. “India has very good software in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
monolith in the 1970s and ’80s. (For his part, Chidambaram confessed that when he arrived at HBS in the mid-1960s, he too was a “confirmed Socialist” and still was when he graduated. His views changed over time, he explained, when he... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
Smart Choices by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School Press) Decision-making is a major part of life for every human being. Where should you live? Which house should you buy? Is it time to change... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
advisor to the newly formed government of East Timor. “You had yesterday’s freedom fighters now trying to figure out how to run a country,” he says. “Our job was to help them navigate the big policy and technical issues of various... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
undergraduate at Stanford University, in 2007, Rewane began to put her thoughts into action. She set up an initiative with her sister, Jemine Rewane (MBA 2009), and some friends, called the Impact Initiative (Inspiring Minds, Perceptions, and Attitudes to View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
changed the world. In this book, Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero—the point where we are no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
open markets and trade began to emerge across Latin America. In recent years, state-owned companies have been privatized, currencies stabilized, and inflation reduced. These changes have helped attract a fresh influx of foreign direct... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
adoption of some cost-reducing, consumer-facing, and life-saving technology innovations. Herzlinger—dubbed the “godmother of consumer-driven health care”—has helped to shepherd countless new health care products to market. But she’s never seen the health care landscape... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices associated with it, and the View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
payers will ask, ‘What are the economics of managing someone with lupus, MS, or diabetes for thirty years, versus curing them?’ That’s the point when you’ll see a change in approach, especially as advances in science and research suggest... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
your estimation, what political actions can actually change people's minds? Hessan: So here's what I think. I think that the extremes get the attention. So I—first of all, this is really hard to say. But I am convinced that our country is... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken together with HBS and several... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons