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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
couple of decades. But the transformation only really hits home when you begin to recall the details of the 1977 business landscape. Sears was where America shopped, as was Montgomery Ward and W.T. Grant. Wal-Mart was nowhere on our radar... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
assistant professor in the Finance Unit. They detail their proposal in a paper titled “The Economics of Housing Finance Reform: Privatizing, Regulating, and Backstopping Mortgage Markets.” Scharfstein recently answered questions about the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
students to this, the initial meeting of his second-semester elective. McAfee emphasizes that students should feel free to call a “technology time-out” if someone uses a buzzword or acronym they don’t understand. Knowing the technical View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
the School's mission of making a difference in the world. While details will be announced next spring, Dean Nitin Nohria and John Hess (AB 1975, MBA 1977), CEO of Hess Corporation and chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign, met... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
there. It also connects to research about things like laughter and play that really can add joy to our days as well. DM: If you could walk me through and give me a little bit more detail on those pillars. And, not just, on the definition,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight by government auditors, who... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
remember seeing Richard Donner as Superman for the first time. I remember that vividly, I was with my parents. I remember seeing Star Wars also in that small theater. And it's just the small details I remember like they didn't have movie... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
management expert L. Paul (“Jerry”) Bremer III (MBA ’66) was named Administrator of Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority last May. His responsibilities include overseeing virtually every detail of life in Iraq except military... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
less of a factor, and 30 percent of the trees would be protected in the really common ecosystems with high commercial importance. Facilitators for forestry and the environmentalists quickly headed off-site for a private conversation. After several hours of working out... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Kordestani recalls. Once they felt confident that McKenna was ready to accept the role, Mercy Corps leadership shared the detailed findings of the investigation with her. (As a group, they revealed organizational mishandling and a greater... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
change, numerous devils emerged in the legislative details before passage was ultimately achieved in 2006. Looking back, Pozen observes, “It’s important to consider a few things we did well — and one we did not — in determining whether... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
across multiple generations. A More Just Future By Dolly Chugh (MBA 1994; PHDOB 2006) Atria Books The racial fault lines of our country have been revealed in stark detail as our national news cycle is flooded with stories about the past.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
200,000 calls to Colorado to persuade voters to back an election-reform initiative on the ballot, and a much smaller effort to remind Detroiters to return their completed ballots. Text messages had been dispatched to give Pennsylvanians the View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
past fifty years, detailing how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges confronting women are more complex than ever, and they arise inherently from being female. Acutely aware... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
accommodate the balancing act of raising three children. Married to Brad Greenwald (MBA 1990), the Denver native decided that a career in writing would offer the best chance to create her own schedule. But what to write about? After keeping a View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
entrepreneurship in its state-owned enterprises; the Japanese government is challenging its own telecom monopolies; and wireless technology in South Korea and elsewhere on the Pacific Rim has leapfrogged U.S. advances. In this dynamic environment, View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
can tell them now. Most successes and failures in direct marketing are based on people, not rules. This book details what the best ones do and how they do it and shows what the worst ones do, as mistakes to avoid. 30 Women in Power: Their... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
office, I noticed this large poster board covered in Post-Its that had all these details about the user experience of food stamp recipient in California. It was really complicated. Can you walk me through what I was looking at? Ingersoll:... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
auditing standards in China, while Associate Professor Huang Yasheng closed the first session with a detailed briefing of his ongoing study of foreign-invested enterprises on the mainland. The afternoon concluded with an open discussion... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Editor’s Note The December issue’s “Last Look” photo generated several richly detailed e-mails that appear below. Cold in the Wintertime I know the “Last Look” scene well, having lived at Harvard Way Extension from the summer of 1946... View Details