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- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
include housing. Returning veterans could not find affordable homes. A condominium costs 12 times annual income; and the country has a dearth of rental units. In Israel, demand for housing outstrips supply—a conundrum familiar to United... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
business idea today, chances are it was first written about in HBR," says Nan Stone, a 14-year veteran of HBR who has served as the magazine's editor in chief since 1994. Indeed, for most of this century, the magazine has not only been on... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Medical Center University of Rochester Medical Center University of Utah Health Care UPMC Vanderbilt University Medical Center Veterans Health Administration Professor Robert S. Kaplan Robert S. Kaplan is the Marvin Bower Professor of... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job
your MBA experience From the first day of my MBA, my classmates knew that I loved music and wanted to explore careers in Entertainment and Media. On the professional front, I joined the Entertainment & Media Club, became the VP of Music, and hosted panels with... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Bingham’s attention is as focused on clinical trial enrollment as it is on, say, cold-chain distribution (some of the vaccines under consideration must be maintained at –122 degrees Fahrenheit). READ MORE In the UK, veteran biotech... View Details
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
search process, the company offered the position of CEO to Dick Williams, an industry veteran with twenty-two years of experience at IBM. In the final stages of negotiating his hiring terms, Williams made one final, surprising request:... View Details
- 07 May 2015
- Blog Post
Career Change: From the Military to Consulting
an offer to return to Bain & Co after graduation. Has the alumni network impacted your job search? I found the alumni network to be very supportive throughout my job search. I sought advice from alumni who shared my background, especially View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
of veteran players, the team posted another 12-4 record, winning the NFC East and a fifth Super Bowl. Switzer became the second coach (after Jimmy Johnson) to have won a college national championship and a Super Bowl title. The Cowboys... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
lets them make mistakes at those times when they can still afford it. Growth, when it comes, is all the more sustainable as a result. GovWorks's failure is a textbook example of the perils of grandiosity.— Walter Kuemmerle Back in 1987, Leopoldo Fernandez Pujals, a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
there.” At Berkeley, Beck majored in political economy and was enthralled by comparative economics. After graduation in 1995, she joined McKinsey & Co. where her leadership qualities flourished. On one major engagement with an insurance client, the McKinsey team... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
July 29. While it is a drama, it was also created to reflect the actual challenges women face in working on the real Wall Street. Munger, Mandelli, and Herbert were among a group of veteran Wall Street women invited in spring 2015 to meet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
Square doesn’t have a future. Given the rapid changes in the technology sector, your Box 3 idea becomes a Box 1 very quickly. Hence the importance of the three-box solution in Silicon Valley. The Bookshelf Campaign veteran Josh King (PGL... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807175 Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (A) Harvard Business School Case 608-061 Investigates the challenges that Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer confronted in seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
could finally afford to buy their domiciles. The definition of home shifted. A home became an anchor, a stake in the community. Veterans from World War II seized upon the FHA and VA mortgages to sink roots into the middle class; one... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
request, the traditional Class Day address format. The blunt, veteran CEO with the Massachusetts accent and his unabashed, youthful interlocutor - a Cambridge University graduate possessing formidable verbal agility and a rapier wit - put... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
and a thirty-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry in East and West Africa, said that while it is unlikely that many governments will suddenly find more money for fighting AIDS, they must focus the resources they do have. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 24 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)
forestry operations across the company. In 1974, at the age of 33, I was promoted to Division Manager of the Timberlands Division, overseeing 1.2 million acres of forest land across six southeastern states. The division was a profit center, and I was responsible for... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
manager's skills. When the telecommunications industry was deregulated and challenged by new entrants, for instance, few former Bell Systems managers were able to successfully transition to the fast-moving, entrepreneurial, growth-oriented environment, despite being... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
and military veterans from the Danish Royal Army. One of the highlights of the evening was the keynote speech from U.S. Senator for Massachusetts, Ed Markey, who talked about the importance of addressing climate change and how Denmark has... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
becoming a real business, simultaneously opening in four new markets and in need of more veteran leadership. Over time, Angie’s List instituted a basic business model that charged members a nominal annual fee that provided access to the... View Details