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Commencement 2011 Address | About
As I stand here today, giving this Commencement address, I have to pinch myself to believe it is actually happening. When I came to the United States in 1984 to attend graduate school — at that other noted... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
reassess how their strategy is working and to change initiatives if need be. It’s a high-impact lesson in driving corporate performance. Later that day, all nine sections played the latest version of the Beer Game. The simulation, first played on paper in the 1960s,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
whether the e-commerce initiative is achieving its stated objectives (outputs) and thus contributing to the long-term success of the corporation (outcomes). Companies often waste resources on e-commerce initiatives or do not invest when... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
on social and environmental returns, in addition to financial returns." It became a blueprint for her career. Seegull was vice president of business development at Novica, an e-commerce company connecting artisans in developing countries to businesses and consumers in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Connell Family Gift Funds Curriculum Innovation
support the HBS Leadership Initiative, and Connell House was named in William's honor in 2003. A 2001 Alumni Achievement Award recipient, Connell was chairman and CEO of Boston-based Connell Limited Partnership, which he built into one of the largest privately owned... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
education issues, traveling to nineteen states, visiting more than one hundred schools, and speaking with federal and state officials, union representatives, and education think tanks. “I talked to anybody and everybody,” Nielsen recalls.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Letters
experience with us and for their dedicated service to our country. Lawrence F. Twoomey Jr. (MBA ’75) Naperville, Illinois More to the Story Your March article about Iraq states that the “new mission” of U.S. and coalition troops is... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
actions. What else was fueling the insanity of the Mutiny club beyond drugs? Farzad: I didn't realize the extent to which our kind of misadventure in Cuba, the United States, what happened between years 1959 in 1962, led to the cocaine... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used. Calibrated simulations using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Viktor Puzakov
in the United Nation’s Istanbul office, Viktor was able to apply his industry experience and knowledge acquired during RC year to something new: a spring-break volunteer assignment with the U.N. Development Project, “to help U.N.... View Details
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John Schupbach
anticipated. Yet we have been lackadaisical in the development of services that cater to the people with the greatest needs." Combining disciplines to improve life at a large scale When John returned to the United States, he applied... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
the United States, which provides the foundation for much of the world’s monetary policy, is exempt from the gravity-like nature of traditional economics in which, as GOlsen said, “Countries can run deficits until they run out of willing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
buzz. Of course, high positions still provide opportunities; a President of the United States has a bully pulpit and can use it to command attention. But attention will be ephemeral if his actions don’t earn... View Details
- 11 Feb 2016
- News
Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
and secondary education in the United States? How do you bring innovation into schools? How do you help schools get better results out of reading programs, out of other things? “The premise of Collaborating Minds is that experts from... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
and can afford good healthcare, you lack that foundation. If you don't have a governmental system that works effectively and delivers good public services, that's a drag on productivity. The United States... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
address this problem? They should close the difference between money laundering that arises domestically and that which arrives here from abroad. If it’s an offense in the United States, that same kind of money coming from abroad should... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Giving New Ventures a Boost
proposed a plan for Judicial Intelligence, a suite of computer-based tools that will help litigators strategically analyze the opinions of judges they will face in court. In the social enterprise track, a team from Harvard’s School of Public Health took top honors for... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Eleanor Joseph
driving? Her voice cracks. My beautiful, red wine-drinking, brilliant, passionate, life-loving friend, Elif, her partner Ross, and their unborn daughter, were victims in the attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall. All three are gone. Elif's friends, scattered around the... View Details