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- 05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
firm that provides strategic consulting services for private equity and venture funds. Also a former member of the Obama administration’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, she serves as a trustee of the Getty Trust and the Art... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
article in a business journal that gives as strong, comprehensive, and accurate a depiction of corrupt business practices as “Show Me the Money.” My own career was mostly in the Foreign Service when I had occasion to see and lament most... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
performance. The process helps these organizations measure the volume of services they deliver, determine customer satisfaction, apply special analytic techniques to evaluate performance, and keep the public abreast of the results.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
on the second floor, so for stealth purposes, I brought it up in the service elevator. After Leslie and I made a few comments about the HD Americana lure and mystique, we gave out some T-shirts I had made up with the HD Eagle Wings... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs
Sixty nonprofit executives from the Philadelphia area attended the HBS Club of Philadelphia’s fifth annual nonprofit conference in November. The one-day event provided attendees with leading-edge thinking on executing strategy in nonprofit organizations as well as a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
Claire, who joined the company after earning both bachelor’s and trade school degrees in air conditioning technology and is now majority owner. The company is known for providing excellent service and for its philanthropy in the Twin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
“Those are the questions students want to explore: not ‘How do we batten the hatches?’ but ‘What are the opportunities for new products and services in a world of climate change?’” Other class sessions challenge students to assess... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
Illustration by Joe Waldron Illustration by Joe Waldron Back in 2010, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole embarked on a two-year randomized control trial with Nilesh Fernando, then a PhD candidate at Harvard, to evaluate whether a mobile phone–based advisory View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
marketing found among the most successful Asian firms in the study appears to hold true across the board - in consumer goods organizations, industrial firms, product companies, and service providers alike, without regard to the size of... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
particularly crucial; yet it is also difficult for external parties to assess the quality of a young firm." Higgins had noticed that in many pre-IPO discussions, venture capitalists would invariably ask company executives what firms they had worked for previously.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Semper Fidelis
In April, Tim Day (MBA 1964), chairman and CEO of Bar-S Foods, a processed-meats producer in Phoenix, Arizona, pledged $12 million in support of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. Day’s most recent gift, one of several major commitments,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Glauber As the nation’s financial crisis unfolded in late September, Bob Glauber (DBA ’65) and his wife were exploring the old Silk Road in remote Central Asia. But that didn’t deter intrepid reporters from trying to track him down for comment on Wall Street’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
John Whitehead Played a Key Role in Developing the HBS Initiative AUSTIN, WHITEHEAD, AND RANGAN: Social enterprise pioneers. In the early 1990s, legendary Wall Street executive and former deputy secretary of state John Whitehead (MBA 11/’47) decided there was a... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
Inside Rent the Runway's Secret Dry-Cleaning Empire
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
Mike Norton In their early years as cash-strapped grad students, Mike Norton and Elizabeth Dunn never worried about the luxury of disposable income. When they each finally started making a salary, though, they faced a quandary. "We realized there was very little... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Faculty Research
How to Avoid a Price Increase Manufacturers usually pass on any cost increases in their materials to consumers. The result is often a price increase (gasoline) or, less often, a smaller amount of product at the same price (potato chips). Which option is more likely to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
Stirring up nutritious meals: On one of his frequent trips to Rwanda, Bill Wyman participates in a class that teaches mothers how to prepare healthy meals for their children. Photo courtesy Bill and Ro Wyman Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido")... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
Art by Jude Maceren/Corbis Related Links "Burt's Bee's Social and Environmental Report Fiscal Year 2010" - Yola Carlough, Director of Sustainability at Burt's Bees, describes how participating in the HBS multimedia case influenced the company's decision to go paperless... View Details