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- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer finance. Jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson (HBS MBA '80), the elective course... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
’53), an Alumni Board member: “I was particularly struck by how Dean Nohria shared his personal life with us. I was also impressed by his effort to listen and engage faculty and alumni in creating a vision... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
the leading business school in the world, to develop the character, the values, and the leadership of its students. Everyone has to develop as a leader. No one is born a leader. You have to develop yourself. Leadership development is a process. — View Details
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
Appropriations Committee, Byrd was a master at bringing home the bacon for his constituents, prompting one watchdog group to denounce him as the "King of Pork." By one estimate, he steered $2.26 billion to West Virginia between 2000 and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
too late to reverse course (see article). Despite their dire warnings, Pisano and Shih haven’t given up on a second act for American manufacturing. And for good reason. The can-do mentality that has pulled the nation through tough times in the past is alive and well... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
The road to higher-quality, lower-cost health care leads straight to better management. That was the central message a panel of experts convened by the HBS Health Care Initiative delivered last week to a full house of students, faculty,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
overview by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, in the June 15 Washington Post. Among other things, the proposed reforms will raise capital and liquidity requirements for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
Building on their success, the School plans to open a center in Istanbul later this year and in London as soon as next year. It’s a strikingly different approach from that taken by other business schools, where global strategy typically... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
all over the world can come and fully thrive," he added. "In my own personal experience," he continued, "that is what the School has been to me. So it troubles me deeply that this School is experienced by some as not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
most storied multinationals in the West have, by and large, fallen flat on their face. There are some exceptions, but not a huge number. I have a theory of why this is the case. If you come in and say, “I need to sell you soap,” you may... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
The School’s Centennial year just happens to coincide with another important anniversary, one many business schools would like to forget: the debut of BusinessWeek’s school rankings in 1988. Talk about disruptive. Up to that point, business schools built their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
school that looks just like an academic department elsewhere in a university — to a true professional school where we’re developing not just knowledge but also skills, purpose, and identity. To the extent that our book moves business schools in that direction, which we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
with Datar and Garvin, I couldn’t help but wonder what lasting impact Rethinking the MBA might have. Judging from the deans’ reception, the budding reform process described in the book is only just beginning. Roger View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
months ahead as they and other HBS faculty travel to a number of cities to meet with alumni, as well as government, labor, and other business leaders, to disseminate ideas and catalyze local actions around competitiveness. "Our alumni bring enormous capacity and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
successor? It would be to continue to innovate while keeping true to the values of the institution. That, I think, is the secret to the School’s success. — Roger Thompson View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty, and guests in a packed Shanghai hotel auditorium, HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
other countries. But by the end of 1996, it was clear that they had failed to master the task of operating Chinese enterprises. So Perkowski moved on to Plan B. He appointed a team of “Old China” managers inherited with the joint-venture... View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
misplaced response to the financial crisis. It assumes that the financial crisis was caused by unethical MBAs gambling with other people’s money,” a point Vermaelen contests. He concludes: “Rather than focusing on pledges, businesses... View Details