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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
the bodies up there.’ We ignored that advice.”) Cohen is also proud of her part in effecting the transfer of authority over remote Midway Island from the Navy to the U.S. Fish... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
one-third of all the food in the world is wasted.” How does the company’s food distribution process work? “We focus on resolving the nutritional needs of community kitchens by... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
general’s 2017 investigation. Existing contract paperwork has been difficult to verify; the addendum appears to have been hastily cobbled together and signed by a former board member who, when asked, denied doing so—and who, in any case, did not have the necessary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal
“You’ve had a part to do with it. It could be that you trusted when you shouldn’t have trusted. You didn’t think about whether the person had high character, was competent and had the authority and therefore shame on you. We don’t like to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Michael Norton wrestles with in his provocative public policy–oriented research. In one 2011 nationwide survey, for example, Americans asked to estimate their country’s wealth distribution told Norton (and his collaborator, Dan Ariely)... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
given authority to decide whether spare parts should be sent to combat troops or to the evolving production base. By centralizing inventory control in this manner, the optimum use was made of scarce... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
aside $10,000 to be matched with alumni donations, the club also distributed $20,000 to three local charities assisting families of WTC victims; in addition, it set up a speakers' program featuring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
philanthropy in the creation of high-performing schools, which they have been able to replicate with high degrees of fidelity." Cutting Losses Unfettered by oversight from a local school board, most charters... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
New Awards Recognize Teaching Excellence
Program for Leadership Development Judy worked as Williams’s research and case-writing assistant after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar in 1957. He went on to a successful investment-banking career with Chicago-based A.G. Becker &... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
changes in the law that may have made filing easier. The authors base their assertions on an analysis of historical data involving bankruptcies and consumer credit. "When consumer credit expanded... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
to make these issues, these conflicts, these development discussions deeply personal.” Lemmon’s latest book, Ashley’s War, is a very different tale, but it addresses some of the same issues of resilience,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Anti-Social Media
Li Photo courtesy Altimeter Group A former executive at Forrester Research and consultant at Monitor, in 2008 Charlene Li (MBA 1993) founded the Altimeter Group, which designs pragmatic strategies to help companies leverage disruptive trends. She is also the View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
exploitative capitalists, the student was amazed by Yang's talk. “When I said it didn't have to be that way, it was a revelation to her,” said Yang. As part of the School's Leadership and Values Initiative,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity in Massachusetts. Among its core... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
financial theory but also has important implications for the character and performance of the global financial system. Bob's is a voice of leadership that speaks at once to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Alumni Books Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, and Peter Klein (MBA 1971) (McGraw-Hill Education) The authors provide a proven plan for making... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- News
A Chance to Lead
Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) is a retired business executive and author of The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond. In this interview, she talks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
Henderson explains. That’s Fleetzero’s goal. John McCown (MBA 1980), nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Maritime Strategy and author of Giants of the Sea, says he’s... View Details