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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
political leaders in the country are wrestling with the question, what comes next? Will Japanese companies adopt western business practices, and at what cost to its own uniqueness? As with the School's four other international research outposts, the JRO is charged with... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
credit spreads are tight. The high-yield spread is the spread between the yields [the return an investor expects to receive annually until a bond matures] on a high-yield bond relative to a corresponding Treasury. You look at those View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages. Lorsch found that CEOs do not... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
William R. Hearst
journalism" enabled him to capitalize on the public's thirst for exaggerated stories, and in the process, his circulation numbers soared. Though he was reviled as a journalist, Hearst built the largest publishing conglomerate in the... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Keeping Up with the Dean
Since becoming Dean last summer, Nitin Nohria has spent a lot of time meeting with alumni around the world. In late July, he traveled to England, India, and China. More recently, he has spoken to a number of HBS Club gatherings on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Building Capacity in the Social Sector
Zanetti is one of a number of past SPNM participants in the Lehigh Valley who meet periodically in sessions that extend what they learned at HBS. Through those gatherings, many have met Thun and had a chance, in Zanetti's words, "to let... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
number of for-profits that are focusing on problems in areas such as education and welfare-to-work? According to Bloomberg Senior Lecturer in Philanthropy Allen Grossman, the answers to these kinds of questions must take into... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five founders also hoped to support... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The HBSAA Board of Directors has been hard at work this year, and I am delighted to report progress on a number of initiatives that will benefit alumni. After welcoming twelve new members and inaugurating the committees for 1999-2000 last... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
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Samantha Ernst
When Samantha Ernst arrived at Wellesley, “I thought I’d be a math major,” she says. “Then I took multi-variable calculus and wanted to jump off a bridge.” Instead, Samantha studied economics. “I liked it because it’s a mix of people and View Details
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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Motors Corporation and their respective divisions, as well as a number of independent manufacturers such as Hudson Motor Car Company, Packard Motor Car Company, Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, and Studebaker. Copyright © Presidents and... View Details
- Web
Search Fund Fellowship | MBA
operating companies in underserved communities, specifically those that have not traditionally attracted Harvard Business School (HBS) MBAs. The Search Fund Fellowship provides financial support of $65,000 per year to a select number of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
New Awards Recognize Teaching Excellence
Program for Leadership Development Judy worked as Williams’s research and case-writing assistant after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar in 1957. He went on to a successful investment-banking career with Chicago-based A.G. Becker & Co. and served on a View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
NIH grant applications from 1992 to 2005. She plotted links between applicants and evaluators—via professional publication citations—to determine potential bias. Then, to establish the quality of the funded projects, she tracked the View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
spring, Moskowitz and five classmates launched a startup they call Boxxify to provide a solution. E-commerce customers have their packages delivered to Boxxify, which, for a $7 fee (regardless of number of items), drops them off with... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
parlaying that one emporium into an empire of stores nationwide. Neiman Marcus introduced a number of innovations such as weekly department store fashion shows, personalized gift wrapping, a national advertising campaign (unheard of for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Emmons Heads Christensen Center
In addition, the center will conduct and disseminate research on best practices and innovations in case-method pedagogy, and serve as a convener for symposia on teaching and learning. Funding for the center has been an important goal of the School’s ongoing capital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
be built on the backs of mom-and-pop stores, he said. “The new model is for major businesses that can employ a number of people and create significant distributed wealth.” A talk by musician and impresario Quincy Jones kicked off the... View Details
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Jackie Burgos
was the youngest-ever president of the school’s Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting club and helped it become one of the school’s most popular and well regarded clubs.” With an appreciation for the value of networking, she increased the View Details
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Jackie Burgos
“I was the youngest-ever president of the school’s Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting club and helped it become one of the school’s most popular and well-regarded clubs.” With an appreciation for the value of networking, Jackie increased the View Details