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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog
first module of the course confronts major real-world departures from this hypothetical starting point. These departures mean that government policy can improve the efficiency of the economy, in principle making all individuals better... View Details
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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
central problems that companies face in scaling markets for clean technologies? Analysts widely assume the cost of clean technologies and services is the main barrier to market penetration. We examine the role of coordination and profitability in supporting clean... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
Japan Research Center (JRC) hosted a virtual reunion in March to mark the 10th anniversary of the course. The reunion drew about 130 attendees, including 60 alumni who took the course as students and project partners. The Tōhoku region had just experienced yet another... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
You're only as good as your job title? Apparently so, if you're the director of a major company. A corporate governance precept currently in vogue calls for outside directors to offer to resign if they change (or lose) their jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
explains. "The reason I often choose young protagonists is because that's the age when we make our first major choices and begin to discover the connections that reach far beyond our own lives." Barron and his family live in Boulder,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
innovative concepts and models (including The Managerial Target); and describes, interrelates, and integrates about 100 gurus’ major concepts, processes, models, and practices into a single unified practice of management model. The Speed... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to Harvard... View Details
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jeff Chochinov
mark on Canada by starting and building a great company and providing a role model for entrepreneurship. I also want to play a major role in the arts by getting involved with the Toronto Film Festival. Before heading back to Canada, I... View Details
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John Whitehead | Baker Library
new businesses. His personal approach: he sought out and listened to the firm’s clients, identified new business lines, and over time developed these into major service offerings. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine the world of Goldman... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976
For Debby Farrington, the road to HBS began at age 11 with a visit to the New York Stock Exchange. "I was fascinated," says Farrington, who majored in economics at Smith and was one of just nine women in her HBS section. Comfortable in... View Details
- 25 Oct 2019
- News
Jane Fraser Named President of Citigroup
her the first-ever woman CEO of a major bank.” Fraser has been at Citigroup since 2004, joining after roles at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey. Before being named president, Fraser served as CEO of the company’s Latin American division. Asked... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
“Our classroom is a 204-acre island in Boston Harbor with two salt marshes, a fresh-water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests,” says Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991), president and CEO of Boston’s Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center. Since 2005,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Artful Contributions
The director of the High Art Museum in Atlanta regards two HBS graduates as the “twin pillars” of the museum’s recently completed $124 million expansion project. Terry Stent (MBA ’68), chairman of the museum’s board of directors, and his wife, Margaret, have been View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
Lawrence. Barr told the New York Times (October 7, 2004) that the foundation intends to launch “the biggest and baddest Web site for poetry out there,” sponsor regional contests (patterned after the National Spelling Bee), and undertake View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
assess and advance their own brand-management efforts. Confessions to a Deaf God by Gary R. Blinn (MBA ’72) (Xlibris Corporation) Blinn’s memoir of his two years as a Navy Swift boat skipper in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta offers a vivid, first-person account of war.... View Details
Elon H. Hooker
Hooker was the founder of one of the first electrochemical plants in the U.S. at Niagara Falls, N.Y. - a major producer of chemicals and plastics. He was ranked as one of the leading American figures in the field of chemical production. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 24 Aug 2020
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My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort
As a senior at Hamilton College, I debated what career path to take. Should I go to Medical School? Maybe get a PhD? Or should I dive straight into the business world? I was a Biology major with four years of lab research under my belt. I... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
food,” notes the low-key Batcha, who was raised on a farm in rural New Jersey and majored in horticulture at Rutgers before coming to HBS. “I believe hunger and famine would be much more widespread today without the changes the seed... View Details
- 19 Apr 2023
Harvard Business School Visit to Amherst College
Bring your to-go lunch and join Harvard Business School Admissions for an Ask Me Anything about the 2+2 program! Students across all majors are welcome to learn more about how the 2+2 program can allow you to take the risk you know you... View Details