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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
conference in December 2008, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told several hundred prominent board members that he couldn’t conceive of how they might do their jobs successfully:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
The son of a small-town banker, Charlie Williams grew up in rural West Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University, and taught for more than 39 years at HBS. The School’s much-revered George Gund Professor of Commercial Banking, Emeritus, he saw 27 former students... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
firm that cares about good corporate governance.” I believe the way to good corporate governance is to add only the highest quality individuals to boards. In some ways, we used to have an unspoken quota system for boards. It was that men... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
fundamental problem. The Medicare prescription drug program that went into effect last year bars the federal government from negotiating with drug companies over the prices seniors pay. The new Democratic majority in Congress has vowed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
region. Visiting three spice plantations, we played guessing games with our guide, Baker, about what spice various plants yield and how. Baker, whose family owned one of the plantations we visited, first showed us a clove tree and explained that the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated food waste into the animal feed supply chain. “International... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
In early April, nearly ninety HBS faculty members came together for a half-day symposium on “Strategy, Values, and Governance in the Rise and Fall of Enron.” Organized by the School's Division of Research and moderated by Professor... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
technologies and providing services that are designed to improve water management worldwide. Already, the fund has invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address such pressing problems as flood tracking, water waste and reuse,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
says Letelier. About a quarter of nonprofits offer some revenue-creating programs, Letelier observes. For instance, a nonprofit offering free medical assistance in remote Brazilian communities would be eligible for government... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
such as the life cycles of the family business, dilemmas inherent in working with relatives, grooming the next generation of company leadership, governance of the firm, and managing the impact of wealth on the family. "We spend much of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
For marketers, how big is the World Cup? Its power can't be overstated. Some 3 billion people will watch the tournament, and marketers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to engage their attention. FIFA, the governing body of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
different. In China, the government typically is the entrepreneur. You cannot be an entrepreneur without also being part of the Communist Party, whereas in India, entrepreneurship is entirely in the private sector, far away from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
imperfect institutions, the authors write, “but no viable alternative has been proposed, so we must make the most of the best governance tools at our disposal.” In the future, Lorsch and Carter envision that “boards will possess a genuine... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
leaders, scholars, and current and former senior government officials. The Project will include original research, new survey data, digital forum, regional events, and special issue of Harvard Business Review. "Our ambition at HBS is to... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
Rye Barcott (MBA/MPA 2009) Rye Barcott (MBA/MPA 2009) “You don’t ask the guy next to you in your fighting hole what his political affiliation is,” Rye Barcott says. He should know. Barcott (MBA/MPA 2009) served five years in the Marine Corps, including tours in Bosnia,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Last Look - September 2007
Our thanks to MBA 1976 classmates John Adams, Dottie Stephenson (both Section C), Sam Yates (Section D), and many others who provided details about this model rocket launch in Harvard Stadium. Yates wrote: “We had a first-year Marketing case called ‘Estes Rocket... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
devices were.” CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species trafficking, international food security, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
had been suspended for several years. One of the first women to graduate from HBS, Franklin is used to breaking down barriers. She has worked with five Presidents of the United States, founded an international trade consulting and investment firm, and earned kudos as a... View Details