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- 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
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
healthcare industry. Wadhwani earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on the institutional and regulatory origins of popular banking in the United States. He has received awards and... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
technical employment needs. In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama underscored this point well: " Business leaders who want to hire in the United States... View Details
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Pam Wildeman
take me to Europe and Asia, and across the United States. And I definitely couldn’t have foreseen that it would give me the skills to transition to a B2B, start-up, tech company. And yet here I am. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
his attempts, Reilly is drawn into a web of intrigue 12 years in the making, involving the current American president, a United States senator, a Chinese businessman, and the death of a young girl. How these... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
(Houston), and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), are among the top-rated institutions in the United States in their fields. While specialization is not a prerequisite for excellence, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Beijing—simply by dropping a pin onto a map. Because the company’s satellites fly over the same sites multiple times a day, customers can monitor evolving situations over time, such as tracking tug boats as they haul barges laden with cargo down a river in the View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-128.pdf PublicationsExtreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick Publication:Review of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
have a material adverse effect on shareholders, then that decision and the reasons for it should be disclosed to the shareholders. Decision Tree For example, a company establishing a manufacturing facility overseas in a country that has much less stringent... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
1943. “This is the complexity you need to run five qubits,” Levy says, referring to the fundamental units of information used in quantum computing. Qubit is shorthand for “quantum bit,” a bit being the basic View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
"changes in firm performance account for only 4 percent of the variance in CEO pay." That said, to what extent can you really argue that a CEO can affect the stock price of a company? There may be some connection, but the state... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Each ranking methodology has its own shortcomings/weaknesses. 3. 1 and 2 lead some to state that "the rankings are a trivial piece of information". But what about an equal-weighted average of the rankings by various orgs (say the 4... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Gerardo "Gerry" Lopez fondly recalls the first movie he saw in the United States, in 1977: Star Wars. "Wow, the special effects and flying through space—it was great!" says Lopez (MBA 1984),... 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 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
the citizens and the business leadership. If real reform can take place, then this city and this state can flourish. If not, the future will not be pretty. Did your HBS experience help prepare you for the challenges you have faced since... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
wake up to find oneself deeply enmeshed in a large company, a parent or a dog owner, or the proprietor of a stately home in a suspiciously green and leafy neighborhood. But we have followed our own paths to this latest milestone, and odds... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. "From the founding of the republic until 1933, the United States experienced banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years," explains Moss. When... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
executives by examining how they are penalized in starting pay when looking for new work. The study, co-written with Eric Lin of the United States Military Academy at West Point, reveals these executives pay... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
involved with the policy response to the crisis in Spain. As hard-hit as the United States was by the Great Recession, Spain was damaged far worse: Years after the recession, growth was at a standstill and a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
Summing Up Readers of this month's column agree that there are marked differences in the social environment for management in Europe and the United States. In some parts of Europe, at least, they foster management policies that may... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett