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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
In When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, David A. Moss explores government's role as insurer of last resort in everything from crafting consumer protection law to bailing out airlines after September 11th. He... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Edited by Julia Hanna and Dan Morrell Above: Josh Escher, hard at work as father Peter supervises. (photo by Michael Hanson) The phrase “work-life balance”—that mythical equilibrium between career and family responsibilities—has been... View Details
Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Resilience TrainingDepressed employees are up to five times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses. So why aren't employers helping them? What Hospitals Must Learn to CompeteWhy is it so difficult for View Details
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Leo Markel
cold calls and e-mails, not to mention the internship and full-time opportunities created by Harvard Business School. What are you most looking forward to in your career? I look forward to creating the opportunities for others that I have been fortunate to receive. My... View Details
William L. Moody, Jr.
Moody built a $400 million diversified enterprise. He founded the American National Insurance Company, which under his guidance grew into the largest enterprise of its kind in the southwest. By 1954, it had... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
Maurice R. Greenberg
Greenberg helped grow American International Group into one of the world-wide leaders in insurance and financial services. Greenberg grew American International Group almost... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
understand what it means to want to provide for your family. And some of us have not come from the best means, so we're looking to do something to help our families and our communities. And the challenges that come along with balancing... View Details
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Harvard Business School
American Business . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Davis, George, and Glegg Watson. Black Life in Corporate America: Swimming in the Mainstream . Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982. Delton, Jennifer A. Racial Integration in... View Details
George J. Mecherle
Leaving the family farm in 1918 to tend to his ailing spouse, Mecherle joined an automobile insurance company and quickly discovered that farmers were charged the same auto View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
encourages others to "be passionate," and to "collect good people around you." The words gain credence through Kraft because he is a living example of his playbook. The Kraft Group is a family business run by Kraft and sons Jonathan (MBA... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
health insurance for the family of an employee, for example, could instead offer the employee $17,000 in wages. Any money the employee used to purchase health insurance would... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
markets? —Timothy O'Sullivan (MBA 2001) KIRBY: I agree completely. The challenge is huge, however, since good health care (anywhere) is costly, and at present it is largely only available in quality in larger cities. The basic insurance... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
lot of technical knowledge about how to manage our family and to excel as stewards of our business." Representing a company on the "younger" end of the spectrum was Michael L. Carricarte, the president of Amedex View Details
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John Rogers
a means of improving the lives of their families and communities. Upon leaving HBS, I have been inspired to do much more. I want not just to be a participant in this field but a leader, as my experiences at HBS have given me the skills,... View Details
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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
earned, the firm improved its operations and branched out into ancillary services such as insurance and banking and even an ice company and rice-cleaning mill. In 1857 Augustine II returned home, leaving John and Albert Heard in China.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Your chances of getting a generally accepted best practice in your average American hospital are a coin toss. That’s not Six Sigma by a long shot.” — HBS professor Richard Bohmer describing problems with View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits While reading your letters, I always imagine that you are sitting opposite me, and we are conversing together, as we used to do in old times. — John Heard to Elizabeth Heard, 1842 56 Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy The... View Details
Maggie L. Walker
Walker first organized an insurance company within the Order of St. Luke to help curb the problems suffered by many families when their major income-earners passed away. Capitalizing on the success of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance