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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Ministry of Trade when his government sent him to study at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Duch enrolled at HBS because he wanted “to have both sides of the river as an experience, understanding the business side from the public... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
us—but that our perceptions of the other side are tearing us apart, she writes in an election-day opinion column in the Boston Globe. An entrepreneur, author, and founder and chair of the consumer collaboration agency C Space, Hessan... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
charter the CGC, while funding would come predominantly from public investors. To launch the college, the proposal seeks a congressional mandate to require companies receiving federal TARP bailout money to allocate three board seats to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
drug and the FDA says it is safe and effective and doctors prescribe it, insurance generally will pay for it. But everyone is getting fed up with that approach—the ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli did not help—and we’ve reached a critical mass of View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
wanted to frame it in a way that could create debate, rather than in a way that rubbed people the wrong way or made them feel hurt,” he says. McCray had strong opinions on the case, but decided she would focus first on listening and... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
The word “globalization” is bandied about so often, it has taken on a life of its own. Opinions differ as to whether it’s good, bad, or something in between. Yet everyone seems to agree that globalization has made the world smaller and... View Details
- 30 Jul 2010
- News
Notes from a Hammock
free pass from the media relative to the scrutiny applied to the worlds of politics, law, public policy, and the arts, for example? Would a sharper and stronger media spotlight have helped us avoid some recent disasters? Enron’s voodoo... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Message to Our Readers
A close look at the spine type on this issue reveals that 1999 marks the 75th anniversary of the Harvard Business School Bulletin. Originally published as part of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, the magazine, as a separate monthly View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
blessed to have so much support from our students and our alumni to actually act on this opportunity. Public confidence in business has diminished significantly over the past couple of years. How can business earn it back? Trust in... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, HBS student Andrew Sridhar (MBA 2010) cited what he calls “troubling” aspects of the oath. For example, he doesn’t buy the professionalization analogy with oaths in law, medicine, or the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
people involved and to show they care in order to bring about change It’s not going to work to assume there are people in this or that nonprofit saying, ‘Okay, we’re going to lift people out of poverty.’ It’s not going to happen that way. We need to have a groundswell... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
favorable opinions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. It’s forward momentum in meaningful work — progress — that creates the best inner work lives. Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
daunting prospect of determining which residents would receive 300 square feet of free housing (limited to families in residence before January 2000), it’s easy to imagine a nightmarish scenario of unpopular evictions and shutdowns of thriving, unregistered businesses... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
received support from staff at the School’s Europe Research Center, who facilitated contacts with 13 top executives and policymakers at European businesses and institutions. When Pons teaches the case, students consider the history of climate science, how country-... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
done differently. “The video is a very powerful teaching tool,” says Yoffie. “Few CEOs will admit to their mistakes in a public setting.” The comings and goings of various CEOs at Apple over the years can be instructive in itself, he... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
frequently don’t have peers to bounce ideas off of.” Thompson adds, “Participants have found colleagues who intimately understand their work and whose opinions they value.” To date, over 2,100 people have completed the first course to... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
taxi companies in Jakarta reached a breaking point. Echoing complaints that have dogged Uber elsewhere, the city’s cabbies had for months argued that their app-based rivals were burdened with few of the licensing and regulatory headaches that plagued them. In March,... View Details