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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
business figures, such as John D. Rockefeller — gave many observers pause. The reaction was increased oversight and antibig business sentiment. I think such moments are part of something very important in the U.S. system. There is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
percent of the class would have known what he was talking about. “Today, it’s more than 50 percent. Students understand that those are important considerations that are going to affect their organizations and their careers,” observes... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
resources department from a paper-pushing backwater to an entity that is strategically incorporated into the district’s overall mission. “One observation that we made early in PELP is that school systems have essentially not changed their... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
on the rest of your life," said Klemmer. Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Learning Curve Yet the success he had observed at the charter school convinced him that top-quality education was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
the big ahas was discovering that the drop in performance we observed after stars transitioned from one firm to another was applicable only to people named Boris. Not Barbara. Basically, it's a story of institutional barriers. If you're a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
Disease Control and Prevention, declared racism a serious public health threat. Shell is a coalition builder and a longtime observer of “where human capital is invested and where it isn’t.” He grew up in New Bedford, one of a number of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
with these questions in a virtual case-method style discussion on October 22. The 160 attendees had the option to be observers only, or participate in the live video class and be prepared to be called upon to engage in the conversation.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of hours interviewing and View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
HBS alumni often describe the MBA Program as a transformational experience. That observation especially rings true for students such as Meredith Weenick, Neera Nundy, Abdu Mukhtar, and Jonathan Hodgson who participate in the Nonprofit and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
development—regenerative biology, as well ethical issues such as “playing God” by virtue of DNA editing. “When we write the history of the early 21st century, I think we will remember this time as being a period when we achieved absolutely transformative discoveries in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
having more time —but not as much as I'd like! —to read, think, and write." While teaching may be the core activity at HBS, other basic needs must be met as well. As Napoléon once observed about armies, HBS students move on their... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
unemployment situation in India remains dire, with 17.8 million of the nation’s 1.34 billion people unemployed, according to the United Nations International Labor Organization. “Much work needs to be done,” observes Bhargava. “Otherwise,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
surprising that a firm’s country of origin can shed so much light on global expansion,” commented Lal. Exactly how globally standardized should a corporation strive to be? HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, who said that Levitt’s 1983 essay is the first assignment he gives... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
observes Conforti, who is now Finale’s president. Their HBS credentials, recalls Conforti, were “also very helpful in convincing investors that we were going to manage the inherent risk of running a restaurant better than others might.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto calls on his experience as a financial advisor to governments, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the East and the West to explain why. It's not a result of globalization, he says, or even the 2008 economic implosion. Instead, Pinto offers a simple View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have settled back into the classroom quite comfortably, as Professor... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
of the same techniques that I observed at the CPCL, such as role-playing and getting students to speak and listen to one another in one-on-one discussions at the beginning of class,” she remarks. “It's simply fantastic to watch students... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
(MBA '92), Paul Knutson (HBS '98), William H. roedy, Jr. (MBA '79), and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), industry insiders with perspectives from key vantage points in the music world. They, along with HBS associate professor John J. Sviokla, a close View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
“I’ve also observed interesting team dynamics on these adventures. “There is a big difference between the team that celebrates making it to the summit and the same team that later has to rescue a teammate from a deep crevasse. Challenges... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken