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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
that I could invest the rest of my career in helping people.” To that end, Downing started taking science classes three years ago. Then, while searching for a medical school that would accept a mid-career student, he stumbled upon a new joint program, offered by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
the North continued to suffer crushing numbers of casualties. Pressure grew on the Union side to end the conflict, even if it meant foregoing universal emancipation. Facing the prospect of an upcoming presidential election against a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
students; currently, 132 students are studying to receive a DBA (offered in accounting, management, marketing, strategy, and TOM) or, in collaboration with Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a PhD (business economics, organizational behavior, and View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
world needs principled leaders. Business has become one of the most dynamic forces in our society. If you look at what our graduates are asked to do, you will find them holding influential positions on the boards of major nonprofit and community organizations, whether... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, written by Tracy Kidder and originally published in 2003, is a fascinating, close-on look at the life and work of Paul Farmer,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
self-reliance and perseverance, despite his financial deprivation and the trauma of being abandoned. As time passes, Hajim displays an instinct for survival and a drive to excel. A highly motivated student and athlete, he earns an NROTC college scholarship to the View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
capital. For more than a quarter-century, the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
he nor his family could have afforded for him to go to the University of Connecticut and HBS without the GI Bill,” explains Bishop. “With his gift, he wanted to help keep HBS accessible for future Charlie Waites to attend and also wanted... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
cofounded and implemented — at a December event at HBS at which she introduced the ALI’s first cohort of fourteen fellows. Ranging from a former U.S. astronaut and a former Venezuelan health minister to a former IBM international... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
facing both nonprofits and other social-purpose enterprises. Another concerns the ways in which businesses can influence a community's health and create meaningful partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations. A third has to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
was tempered by lingering economic fears: one poll indicated that nearly half of all Americans expected that within a decade, another depression would devastate the country. With the health of the peacetime economy now the nation's top... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Atlantis hotel, the UK’s RAF Lakenheath air base, and Abu Dhabi’s Cleveland Clinic. The latter is emblematic of a customer segment — health care — that, along with the education sector, has remained particularly strong for Kirlin despite... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
high quality to think about. What does that do to the mix of students on our campus? What makes American universities great, and what makes American businesses great, relative to any other institutions in the world historically, has been... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
become a nonprofit in the past six years. And it's really a wonderful tribute to the founders, who began it and then ran it for years, carrying the liability themselves. So they formed a corporation originally for insurance purposes, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
overseeing a historic gift of about $200 million in stock to the Iowa State University Foundation and the Boston Foundation. At the same time, Curriculum Associates has transitioned from a solely print-based company to a largely online... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Stop Growing — Yours Doesn’t Have To by Matthew S. Olson and Derek van Bever (MBA ’88) (Yale University Press) The authors analyzed the growth experiences of more than 600 Fortune 100 companies over the past fifty years to identify why... View Details