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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Bon Mot Enriches the Lingo
Dictionary, words or phrases “used by members of some in-group, having little or imprecise meaning but sounding impressive to outsiders.” While business must take its fair share of the blame for promoting these and other annoyances, we were delighted to learn that the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
groups, has interests in telecom, agribusiness, retail, and financial services. The group’s flagship company, Bharti Airtel, ranks as the world’s fourth-largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. In 2006, the Bharti Foundation... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School Cyberposium held last February at HBS. "In View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
moment to salute those who are finishing their term on the board this year and thank them for all they've done. They have helped design and refine many of the benefits and services you enjoy as alumni, and I am deeply grateful for their... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
foundation for Mitsubishi's transformation into a 21st-century company." At the end of his term as president and CEO in 1998, Makihara became Mitsubishi Corporation's chairman for six years, a position that enabled him to be a strong... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
collectors, according to an obituary in the New York Times (August 23,2000). "We plunged instead of hedging," Morse once explained, "and after a while I was becoming known as the nut who was backing a dark horse. Or vice versa." During the course of what the New York... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Performance, by Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Dave Ulrich, is an ongoing study of nearly three thousand firms that describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm’s overall strategy — what the authors call an HR Scorecard — and then measuring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Slam Dunk
owners in terms of caring about the players and making sure that everything is taken care of, making sure that the coaching staff has everything they need,” said Pagliuca, who will continue at Bain Capital. “Then we'll get out of the way... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Faculty Development. "We are at a critical juncture in terms of faculty development," Clark said. "One of the School's top priorities is maintaining an effective, dynamic, and highly skilled faculty. We are grateful to the Class of 1949... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
students, but also those from Harvard’s medical school, engineering school, and public policy and health school—understand how to disseminate their health care innovation ideas. If they are very serious about it, the second course, a field-study course, enables them to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
Central Park. Patient-centered innovation is finally happening, and it’s up to all of us to make sure it continues. On a more personal note, I’ve learned two big things from working in the ER. I’m humbler in terms of what science knows... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
terms of knowledge, managers need to become more legally literate so they can communicate effectively with counsel. This includes understanding their fiduciary duties and the circumstances under which companies are liable for the actions... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
Tough regulation of the largest financial firms is not as sexy as muscular rhetoric about ending too big to fail; but over the long term it is the surest way to prevent another financial crisis. — David Moss is the John G. McLean... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
probably before, Bohemian glass wages were just a fifth of ours. "Beggar-thy-Neighbor" was scarcely a derisive term in the glass business, for as de Tocqueville pointed out in 1832, we were blessed with a comparatively large internal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
also persuade people that the change is going to improve their lives and make a difference in the lives of the people they love. We use the terms “purpose,” “meaning,” and “values.” That’s what drives change. And in this case, we have... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
more of a global scope, which can be helpful in applying international pressure or embarrassment for having this person in prison. Basically, we're trying to raise the costs of keeping this person in prison versus the benefit of keeping them in prison. And from our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams
at least two years before matriculating. Okeke served as a special operations manager at Home Chef, a meal-kit delivery startup, and as an associate consultant at Bain & Co. “I’ve always felt a desire to build something. When I was in medicine I realized I would be... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- News
Keeping an Eye on Things
is so important for safety and security, as well as citizen transactions throughout the globe. For instance, biometric information is collected when people apply for US visas. We see many uses in terms of safety, security, and protection.... View Details
Keywords: Biometrics