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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
future,” says Goodwin-Groen, “which can allow her access to credit or other services. She can begin to plan or grow a small business and make other investments in her household.” In an experiment in Kenya, access to a digital savings... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
expert on corporate responsibility issues, notes that mergers and acquisitions involve a wide array of ethical questions, some of which relate to the degree of "fit" between the value systems of the merging firms. "A mismatch can... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
support this response by doing workforce or business-continuity planning and by helping to meet the demands that will be created by a pandemic, such as by increasing production of essential services and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
iVillage soon created sites such as About Work (www.aboutwork.com), Better Health (www.betterhealth.com), and Armchair Millionaire (www.armchairmillionaire.com), a financial planning site. Although Carpenter and her cofounders originally... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
External Relations and the School's CFO, about the current "State of the School" regarding alumni outreach, fundraising, and current programmatic updates. We also heard about the School's response to the tragedies of September 11. Now... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
shareholder engagement: How can shareholders move the needle? One example that Shawn and I worked on was with CalSTRS, the California pension plan for educators. Following the increase in school shootings, there was a lot of pressure on... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
authority and stature inside the company, who's putting together a real plan with real goals that are going to be held accountable based on compensation, just like you would be doing anything else in business. And then would be View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
planning for new technology that would allow us to do powerful things at the heart of the kind of high-quality education we were committed to providing. Our progress to date is remarkable. You mentioned the use of video in cases. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
breakfast, so the daily 8 a.m. staff meeting had been canceled, and Lhota was planning on catching up on some paperwork. He sat in the quiet of his first-floor office, whose tall, west-facing windows looked out on the morning's golden... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
This fall marks the launch of the first capital campaign in Harvard Business School's 94-year history, with a goal of raising $500 million by the end of 2005. In the following interview, Dean Kim B. Clark talks about the current state of the School, the View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
city or region wins the rights to host a Super Bowl, it is required to form a host committee, Blumkin explains. "The NFL controls the game and all surrounding events. Our responsibility was to welcome guests into the region, help people... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
who motivates patients to take better care of themselves is often overlooked,” he notes. In the fall, Jain plans to begin his final year of medical school while also spending time at HBS working with Porter. His residency ideally would... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
the ship apart and putting it back together again. It should be getting under way again in the spring, probably without me. I think I’ll be transferring to a shore station next. (JH, ed.) A former ambassador to the Netherlands and a 23-year veteran of the State... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up with Margaret Glover, she had just left her position as director of planning and information services for Clean Sites, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit involved in hazardous-waste cleanup, to become an environmental consultant.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
to make fufu, a thick paste used in various recipes—was originally produced for the African market and is now available at 50 supermarkets around the world. STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
for children with cystic fibrosis that teaches them skills to deal with their daily treatment regimens. The pace is scrappy and the conversation engaging. Since launching in 2012, HH hackathons have been held in major cities around the world, with early-2015 events... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
looking back at its heroic response to the pandemic. Still, it took a toll on the organization’s 77,000 caregivers, and the hospital would not meet its performance targets for the second year in a row. They had recently transitioned the... View Details