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- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental issues, a stance that had sparked protests at its annual meetings. This led the U.S. Congress to use its influence by demanding that the World Bank set environmental standards as a condition of the nation’s capital... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
increasingly integrated trading system, higher transnational standards of finance and investment, acknowledged failures of command economies, and heightened concern for human rights, among others. Locally, Myanmar was facing a... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
abilities. “I liked the compete-and-cooperate culture at HBS,” says the social chair of Section B. “You help each other and you want to be the best.” McNerney furthered his education through positions at the gold standards in marketing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
transparent and globally standardized methods of corporate governance. Dozens of countries worldwide, each representing different degrees of involvement of legal systems and regulators in corporate governance, were studied by Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
'84); the Nominating Committee, led by Ed Hajim (MBA '64); and the Community Standards Committee. The first group provides valuable guidance for the annual Global Alumni Conferences, the second works to identify a slate of twelve new... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
accepted to an MBA program on the East Coast, and they had recently relocated. After some discussion with leadership, they realized that her positioning in Eastern Standard Time Zone was perfect for the team, which had people in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
users search for specific categories, products, or services. While advertisers are usually not charged for the standard listings, "enhanced" links may be purchased. Enhancement can entail moving the listing to the top of the screen,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Structure How should companies behave in such an environment? Clearly, refusing to pay or receive bribes and acting according to high ethical standards is the best course of action. But operating in the real world is a complicated matter,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
“Value-stream mapping” in the oncology department standardizes the follow-up process with patients. An improvement strategy called “3P” (production, preparation, process), used to radically redesign space according to workflow, eliminates... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
money out there looking for interesting new businesses. On the face of it, it’s a match made in heaven, with lots of positives; but beware the negatives. Those investment decisions will shape the future of your business. The standard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
had long wanted to wear a uniform in this war, but at almost 6 feet tall and not even 140 pounds, he didn’t meet the physical standards set by the armed services. When the 31-year-old registered for the draft in October 1940, his chest... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
standard products also employ natural language processing for analysis. Arieli (left) and Schlatka (right) cofounded Synthesis to offer a mid-range solution for the growing executive assessment industry The key, Schlatka says, is not to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
president’s office at the University of Oklahoma. “My mantra was that I wanted to lead, to serve, to grow,” he says. Running a university met all three criteria, so in 2009 he took the helm of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and after seven years, he joined RMU.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
impacts. Seeing an opportunity in the vast amount of waste within the food system, Imperfect Foods began purchasing “number twos” directly from farmers in California’s Central Valley in 2015. Those are the slightly lumpy tomatoes or twisted carrots that don’t meet the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) via a vote of the public. The RPS requires utilities to produce a specific percentage of power from renewable sources, and because of the ballot measure's popularity and success, the legislature... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
try to standardize the work those individuals do. And the net result is that people who have optionality, which tend to be our highest performers, tend to leave the classroom. And so then our average sinks down, because you have the top... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
also conducted themselves with the highest standards of integrity? These are the kinds of questions that are important to me," he says. He didn't know it at the time, adds Gilmartin, "but when I was a student at Harvard Business School, I... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
truth, and you need to trust the people, trust the process," she says. As the network took shape, members began holding each other accountable for achieving high standards of performance and for using their leadership to bring about... View Details