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- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an economist by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
about our proposal is it sits squarely in the middle between the two extremes: broad-based government guarantees on the one hand, and no government guarantees on the other. Ours is right in the middle, where there are no guarantees most of the time, but guarantees on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
Doctors can’t succeed unless the patient actively participates. More employers are asking employees to participate in health-risk screening and disease management, or bear higher premiums for their health insurance. This movement will spread. — View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
Street Journal, the New York Times, Fast Company, and The Economist. Proof positive, she added, that “we’ve come a long way, baby.” Indeed, and the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been there every step of the way. —Roger Thompson View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
Donaldson Illustration by Joe Ciardiello When William Donaldson (MBA ’58) was sworn in as the 27th chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2003, Wall Street and the commission itself were in turmoil. A wave of corporate scandals that started... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
The recent uproar over the Sierra Club’s acceptance of $26 million in undisclosed donations from an energy company prompted some environmentalists to warn against “sleeping with the enemy.” This sort of us-against-them rhetoric is all too common when it comes to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business news. And I’m no stranger to the type of investment decisions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run health insurance option as creeping socialism. Unions... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Almost without notice in the American press, a new international effort is under way to create a standardized global reporting model for operating sustainable businesses in the 21st century. HBS professor Robert G. Eccles is on the steering committee of the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
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A Taxing Question
The Obama administration reportedly is considering big changes in the broken system for taxing the foreign income of US corporations. US multinationals have piled up overseas cash holdings in excess of $1 trillion, according to some estimates. Under current law, income... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel appointed to monitor the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and powerful: bondholders put money... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and meetings, booked 9,314 student study sessions in project rooms,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the future of the degree it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
Business School, the Economics Department, and the Kennedy School who share this point of view. We’ve been trying to put our efforts together wherever we can to push this area forward. It’s very exciting! — Roger View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
Stirring up nutritious meals: On one of his frequent trips to Rwanda, Bill Wyman participates in a class that teaches mothers how to prepare healthy meals for their children. Photo courtesy Bill and Ro Wyman Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido")... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way
Russo at home in her Brisbane apartment. She credits her domineering Sicilian father with teaching her the street smarts to succeed in business. PHOTO BY PATRICK HAMILTON /NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Every successful entrepreneur can look back and, with the clarity of hindsight,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck Illustration by Zachary Pullen When Tom Oreck (OPM 26, 1998) took over the family vacuum cleaner business seven years ago, his biggest challenge was to transform the firm from an entrepreneurial “one-man band” founded by his father, David, in 1963 into “a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
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Philanthropy’s Dilemma
An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage the nation’s... View Details