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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
Remember that integrity counts. Make your ethical standards visible and consistent throughout your career." CURRENT READING Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow As U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 1992, Barbara Franklin reestablished... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
degree inflation: Over the last decade, changes in employment expectations have created a powerful combination of underachievement and misalignment that is costing both US competitiveness and working-class Americans aspiring to a decent View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
HBS, founded the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to set standards for the professionalization of business education. Years passed with no consensus, but the Great Depression revived interest in setting View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
HBS alumni. A few highlights: Some 71 percent of respondents expect US competitiveness to decline over the next three years, with workers' living standards under greater pressure than firms. The United States fares poorly when decisions... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
The Power of Civility
that approach in civility, I don't believe that we can turn to somebody else and say, “you need to be more civil.” It has nothing to do with that. It only has to do with how we behave and how we convey our thoughts and our actions and our deeds. By setting that View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
proposal for an Open Profile Standard [OPS] that is widely supported by the online industry." OPS is based on the concept that users should get something of value for their personal information and that companies not only must have a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
to make them feel like owners. Connell also maintains a tight system of quarterly operations reviews and monthly financial reports, making frequent visits to plants and customers. In an ongoing commitment to the highest standards of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Class Day & Commencement
of community, family, trust, and giving back. “The path ahead may be difficult. It will be full of risk and great reward,” he told the graduates and their guests. “We need leaders who will make a difference in the world, leaders who are firmly grounded in the highest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
Bridgespan Group — Jeff Bradach (PhDOB ’92) and Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) — pioneers in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting services to enhance the effectiveness of nonprofits and foundations. Founded a decade ago, Bridgespan has helped set new View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
providers feel comfortable about adopting your innovation? Can you make it the standard of care, meaning it is something doctors have to do? Can you get Medicare to pay for it? The MBA elective course I teach, Innovating in Health Care,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
ventilators beeping Terrible as it was, it forced us to innovate. As an example, the standard protocol for putting a patient on a ventilator involves first bringing oxygen levels up as close to 100 percent as possible before gently... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
sector—which accounts for two-thirds of the jobs—we will not only improve the standard of living but eventually contribute to the peace process. The tragic events of last summer in the region were a setback, but I went into this with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
finest." Field-Based Learning Expanded field-based learning opportunities now include more field studies, faculty-initiated research projects in which students may participate, and fieldwork within standard courses. About 40 percent of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
different expectations for clean identification. But, yes, we fundamentally know that we’re in it together. KC: I can give you an example. I wrote an experimental paper about men and women having different propensities to guess on View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
kind of market changes do you advocate? We have already had some success with the creation of certification programs that advance sustainable forests and fisheries. We sponsored the creation of the Forest Stewardship Council and the Marine Stewardship Council, each of... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
paradise enjoyed by Turtle Island Resort's fourteen guest couples. Fourteen couples, fourteen private beaches, each with its own cottage, or bure, designed and constructed according to the standards of traditional Fijian craftsmanship... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
basic practices, such as acknowledging what constitutes third-degree racism so there is no hiding behind a lack of understanding; committing to diversity plans that meet a carefully considered standard of rigor; and delivering outcomes in... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can actually start mobilizing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
incursions have been reported that the government has had difficulty identifying patterns. That’s because the cybersecurity reporting standard for utilities, he observes, “is worded in a way that nearly every breach falls outside the... View Details