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- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
HBS heavy-hitters Clay Christensen and Michael Porter closed out a recent conference organized by HBS and Harvard Medical School. Held on the HBS campus November 14 and 15, "Healing Ourselves: Addressing Healthcare's Innovation Challenge"... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
utilities industries is privatized, water in particular. And I chair the organization that regulates water monopolies. They’re big companies. Many of them privately owned now by pension funds, infrastructure funds. And our job is to hold... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
organizing household finances, in 1983 Cook cofounded Intuit with the novel idea of producing—as it did with Quicken, its initial offering, and later with its acquisition of TurboTax—financial software as a consumer-oriented,... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
changing role in American society since the 1960s. Her analysis revealed how women’s movements adopted organizing strategies from the Civil Rights movement, leading to both progress and pushback. “As a group unifies and gains rights it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
surprise: Human resources. We underestimated how important it is to be extremely aggressive about both bringing in super-talented people and getting rid of people who bring the organization down. What I’d like to do over: Act more quickly... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
Foundations of Organizational Strategy by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard University Press) Economists have historically concentrated on analyzing markets while glossing over the complexities of organizations inside those markets. View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
learned more than anyone else," she says. The work-hard-play-hard environment produced some of her most enduring friendships—Peter Nolan, Andrew Peisch, Suzanne Pollock, Kris Klein—among classmates, and she also met her husband, Alan Jones, at HBS. Favorite subjects... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
might easily convince anyone that the old adage is true: “Business ethics” is a contradiction in terms. But ironically, says HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine, it may well be the steady rise in expectations for corporate behavior that has... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
direction on caring personally and moving up to radical candor, we move the wrong direction on challenging directly, and we wind up in the worst place of all, manipulative insincerity. This is where the false apology creeps in. This is where passive aggressive View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
someone else, you'd make room in your work to do that," he reasons. "It's the same with a trip like this. You have to organize your life to make it happen. By far the hardest part is making a commitment." With school and work taken care... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Four New Groups Form
Alumni Clubs The HBS family of clubs and associations grew by four over the past year. New clubs have organized in Birmingham, Alabama, and the United Arab Emirates. Also new are the Green Business Alumni Association and the Lesbian Gay... View Details
Keywords: LGBTQ issues
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
When their son Joey died of cystic fibrosis in 1986 at age 12, Kathy and Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) vowed to fight the disease. O’Donnell, at the time the president of the Boston Concessions Group, joined with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
StorageNetworks, urged the audience not to let success go to their heads. "Egos kill companies because the companies get fat, dumb, and happy," Bell stated, reeling off the names of several now-defunct organizations whose outsized... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
efforts remained a secret from the SB. In the meeting, Maj spoke forcefully in favor of a student organization to support the workers and KOR. An SB informer was in the audience. After the meeting, Maj was called before the university... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
show why these disputes developed, how investments and disputes have changed, and why firms responded differently to crises. They describe how firms, developing countries, and multilateral development organizations can build a... View Details
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
(MBA 1999), who organized the event with H4A’s Alex Lee, and cohosted with Cindy Young Montano (MBA 2005). “There was no organized program, but we did go around the table and introduce ourselves,” says Tao.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
Donham, Faust noted, wanted students to grasp “the relationship between their particular interests and broader social and economic structures.” He decided courses should be organized around functions—such as finance, marketing, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
Carla Harris Photo courtesy of Carla Harris On August 12, President Obama announced his intention to appoint Carla Harris (MBA 1987) to be the Chair of the National Women's Business Council (NWBC). Harris is a prominent global investment professional and business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
call our focused portfolio) to many weeks (our longer, comprehensive general management portfolio), is growing significantly. Each year, these programs enable us to educate leaders who make the organizations they lead better. Our recent... View Details