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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the nation still faces: labor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Crown Business) Professor Moon examines what it means for a company to offer something that is fundamentally, comprehensively different. She identifies iconoclastic companies like Apple and Google that have... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
should run for office, but what we must do is reform the system so that virtually every elected official can have the freedom I have. That way we can all do a better job. Describe your philanthropic activities. Giving away money has never... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an economist by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues in this Q&A that the current... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
If you hadn’t already noticed, we did something different with this issue’s cover. We typically pick one story for cover treatment. But this time, we picked a topic — the global financial crisis — to highlight five related stories. Why the change? The answer is... View Details
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
Marshall Tuck with kids Photo courtesy of Marshall Tuck Marshall Tuck's exciting new job had a rough start. Selected in late 2006 to head a turnaround of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Tuck (MBA 2000) saw his position evaporate a week before the start date,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Getting Reality on the Table One of the country's foremost experts on money laundering and illegal flight capital, Raymond W. Baker (MBA '60) set out for Africa one year after graduating from HBS, seeking "a taste of international business." In Nigeria, as a consultant... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Quick .who was the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize? Until a few days ago, I had no clue and I’m not proud of that. That’s one reason I went to see and hear the former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, as he took part in two panel discussions at HBS a few... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
handful of educators, nonprofit leaders, and criminal justice reformers to find pathways to success for these young people. In the author's words, “As a juror in a criminal trial, your vote is one of 12 determining whether the accused... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue will not go away. Directors are... 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
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
every one of these things can be taught in a ninety-person classroom in a case-discussion format? That is the fundamental question we are grappling with.” Curriculum Reform at HBS MBA PROGRAM SNAPSHOT: HBS professor David Garvin reviews... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
entrepreneurs who are creating an agricultural and IT powerhouse that is attracting the attention of the rest of the world, while corruption has been replaced with reforms and business deregulation that the West would be envious of,” he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
various diseases the foundation is fighting? Ironically, the hardest area for the foundation to measure is educational reform because “metrics don’t exist” in that field, he said. Taking a swipe at both major political parties, Gates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
for the Asian Development Bank. And now, eight years later, Mawilmada says the country is ready to move on, for the most part. But lingering issues and resentments are the impetus for a current effort to rewrite the country’s constitution to avoid a repeat of the past.... View Details