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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Christensen as Classmate I was delighted to read your excellent tribute to HBS professor Chris Christensen in the March issue. It has a wonderful description of his years on the faculty but less about his character and virtually nothing about his years as a student.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the “‘collision of a collapsing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Individual Donors Enrich Fellows’ Experience As a beneficiary of the HBS Leadership Fellows program, I was excited to see the June cover story about the program and the profiles of several colleagues associated with it. Â As the article suggests, the program provides a... View Details
- July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (A)
By: Robert L. Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case explores maximizing shareholder value as a goal in executive decision making. Over a period of nine years, three different Pfizer CEOs make critical decisions intended to increase shareholder value. But the results are disappointing. To allow students to... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Annual Reports; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Simons, Robert L., and Natalie Kindred. "Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (A)." Harvard Business School Case 110-003, July 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
For Angie’s List, a New Niche? I enjoyed the profile of Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) in the March issue. While pursuing a post-HBS PhD, I supplemented poverty fellowship wages by pounding nails at a small, conscientious hardwood floor installation company of the sort... View Details
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not be enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African American Student Union have... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not be enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African American Student Union have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
the woman’s uniform in the picture. Sure enough, the woman in the photo who looks like me actually is me! Kate Wylie Charlotte, NC We Welcome Letters: Contact us at Bulletin@hbs.edu, or Letters, HBS Alumni Bulletin, Soldiers Field, Boston, MA 02163. View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Prior to leaving on our adventure, I applied for admission to HBS. When we reached San Francisco, our final stop, I made one of my periodic phone calls back home. My father informed me that, in my absence, he had opened a letter addressed... View Details
- 17 Aug 2016
- News
Aetna letter sparks controversy
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
50-Plus Years of Entrepreneurship I was disturbed by the June Bulletin's infographic showing that HBS had been teaching entrepreneurship for only 50 years (page 7). As a student at HBS, I took Management of New Enterprises, an excellent course taught by a superb... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European Enterprises Development (EED).... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Justifying Executive Pay In response to “Over the Top” in the September issue, it’s not a question of whether executive pay can be justified on legal or economic grounds (I believe it can). It’s a question of what is right and what is wrong. CEO pay has gone from about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Marshall-ing the Facts with Marty While reading the remembrance of Professor Martin Marshall in the June Bulletin, I recalled a humorous but “typically Marty” happening that I witnessed while attending OPM in the late 1980s. The case before the class involved a large... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Is There a Disconnect? Thanks for some interesting commentary in the December issue. I note in particular the preamble to the review of John Kao’s (MBA ’82) new book, Charlie Williams’s observations in “The Wise Men” feature, and Professor Rakesh Khurana’s insights in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Smart Choices Regarding your December cover story on Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97), CEO of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, I find it interesting that in the many articles written about the firm, the principals never seem to acknowledge the fact that their early and greatest successes... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African American Student Union have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
ongoing operations of those business-implementation tasks in real time. Leonard Marks’s conclusion to his June letter — “We truly lost a legend!” — is an understatement. Stephen E. Roulac (MBA ’70) San Rafael, CA Add Social... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- December 1972
- Case
Letter from Mr. Starrett
Baughman, James P. "Letter from Mr. Starrett." Harvard Business School Case 373-125, December 1972.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Small Leaders, Important Roles I enjoyed reading “This Is What I Do” in the December Bulletin, with its profiles of three alumni who are changing things for the better in their fields of endeavor. The vast majority of HBS alumni are not often in the news, but they are... View Details