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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
and the United States survey the evolution of multinational banks and offer a framework by which this development can be understood. They analyze the multinational banking strategies of selected countries and institutions from the early... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
recently directed his support to the HBS Fund in support of program innovation. “The School’s consistent focus on making leadership the fundamental tenet of the curriculum sets it apart,” he observes. “It’s critical to placing business in the context of a national... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June
years of reunification. The conference theme, "Knowledge, Risk & Change: Business Without Walls," will give participants an opportunity to consider the future of business and financial institutions in an environment of tightly linked... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Institute of MIT and Harvard to further genomic research, developing a contest that aimed to improve the benchmark algorithm set by Broad scientists, which it did, 14 times faster. Lakhani explains that when... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
That’s the imperative of the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator, established in 2016 with a $20 million gift from the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, led by Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), in partnership with HBS and the Broad View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
that today’s nurse shortage could reach 1.2 million vacancies in the same time frame. Alexi Nazem (MBA 2011) has seen the impact of these shortages firsthand. “Health care is a very broken system,” says the doctor and cofounder of Nomad Health, an online marketplace... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Professor of Management Practice Vicki Sato, led a discussion on “Emerging Models of University Research,” with cases that looked at the Harvard-affiliated Whitesides Lab, Stem Cell Institute, and Broad Institute. Sato, a Ph.D. in biology... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
emerging countries is very encouraging.” The former executive director of the HBS Global Initiative, Wilson is the founder of the consulting firm GV Partners, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her impressive list of clients includes global View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
In a 2006 case he prepared about the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), HBS professor Bill Sahlman quotes HSCI cochairman and codirector of science Douglas Melton as Melton pondered the management skills HSCI was looking for in its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
fresh approaches to problems. The distinction caused a ruckus at HBS, which saw itself as a school of management. But the article held sway, winning Zaleznik the McKinsey Award for the best HBR article that year. Eventually, HBS would redefine its mission to emphasize... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
two colleagues, Ann Evenson and Patrick T. Harker, both of Wharton, have written a working paper on this subject titled "Effective Call Center Management: Evidence from Financial Services." The authors go beyond earlier research to look at the View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
choices will we make? How will we reimagine this institution and leave it stronger than we found it? "When I look at the challenges facing our world today, I'm convinced that now more than ever we need the type of leadership Harvard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism edited by Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani (Edward Elgar Inc.) This selection of articles includes historical research on the role of entrepreneurship in creating global capitalism; the cultural and View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
corporate-governance practices to reap similar benefits. "I think all kinds of business institutions are trying to achieve transparency," said Froot. "Effective global governance isn't completely encompassed in one type of ownership." The... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
smiling these days. Despite Washington’s contentious political environment, he’s employed at a US government foreign-aid organization, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), that actually enjoys broad bipartisan support. Everybody,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Professors Leonard and Rangan One of the benefits of starting a new initiative within an academic institution is the chance to set transformational ideas into motion. In 1993, when then-Dean John McArthur and John Whitehead (MBA 1947)... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
passionate teaching, the building of intellectual capital, and the broad communication of ideas, we are advancing knowledge of how organizations and institutions can perform more effectively and, ultimately,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for HBS’s new Institute for the Study... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
presents research from outside Latin America, illustrating the broad range of approaches that have been fruitful in studying crime in developed nations. The People’s Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment edited by William... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
IV (MBA '66), who has led this august institution for the last twenty years, is neither. In fact, Lazarus claims no formal artistic training beyond auditing a single art history class in college. "When they interviewed me for the... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar