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- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
me develop my ‘systems thinking’: understanding, from beginning to end, how a system works and how it can be adapted to perform better. That was the focus,” recalls Ferrari. “It leads to a greater impact, which is of great importance in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
initiative between MIT and the World Bank, he was sent to the Philippines to work with an informal settlement whose 12,000 residents were to be displaced for a resort. “It was a huge aha moment for me,” Mawilmada recalls. “This time, I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment by Robert Simons (HBS Press) Professor Simons thinks leaders should regard the structure of an organization (the system of accountability that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
for the coming year: encourage clubs to designate an information technology officer to run Internet sessions and develop Web resources; create a system for connecting current students to clubs and... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
that view. As I shared the information from earlier interviews with subsequent interview- ees, they seemed relieved to learn that they were not alone. I started asking them if they would like to meet each other, and they were... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
occur differently in countries around the world. In his research, West investigates how a nation’s institutional systems may either facilitate or retard the development of biotech as an industry. Labor and capital market structures and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
companies and nurtured numerous leading-edge products in a wide range of areas, including information technology, health care, telecommunications, and software. In achieving all that, it has also set the standard for integrity in every... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human needs and financial limits, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
database (see Alumni Navigator) and the gradual transition toward a more robust directory featuring information about alumni similar to that which is collected for student class cards. Richard Decker (AMP 98, 1986) spearheaded the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
of priceless works on display and in storage. "It would be very easy to put all our money into repairing the heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems in this building," says John McCarter of his eighty-year-old facility. Name:... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
This week, Dean Nohria shared the School’s Action Plan for Racial Equity in a letter to the HBS community. “The horrifying murder of George Floyd, and an all too long history of similar injustices, has spurred our collective awakening to the grave and continuing View Details
- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
Last month, the fourth annual “Harvard Arab Weekend” conference was held at venues around the University, including HBS. The theme of the conference was “Leadership in the Private, Social, and Public Sectors” in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The accent was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system that is not responsive to us." Athenahealth's cloud-based services are designed to make... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
social, and financial performance. Those societal pressures are absolutely critical. Look at the level of inequality and the impacts of climate change—the system is not sustainable, it has to change. Maybe decades ago people thought of... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
be poor, unappreciated, frustrated.’ He painted a very unappealing picture, but it didn’t add up. Mrs. Gbayisomore helped me to learn things that made me smart in school. I knew I wanted to fix the system someday. I didn’t know whose job... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work by Scott D. Anthony (MBA ’01), Mark W. Johnson (MBA ’96), Joseph V. Sinfield, and Elizabeth J. Altman (HBS Press) Building on HBS professor Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, which... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version of Watson showed off its impressive brainpower and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons