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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996. Her new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry (Jossey-Bass), analyzes and draws lessons from the factors that made one company — Baxter International — a standout in... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
herself engaging on questions of policy solutions. When one student proposed dispersing reparations in the form of college scholarships, McCray voiced concerns about overlooking those who do not attend college. “Matriculating into college requires more than funds. It... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several months to do so; in low-income... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Teaching Commission, a nonprofit organization that seeks to change how public school teachers are trained and compensated. A longtime activist for education reform, Gerstner is passionate when discussing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
real-world perspective.” Leo Corbett (MBA 1975), whose career both in the private and public sectors includes stints in the Social Security Administration and on Wall Street, has served on many boards of directors. He said he enjoyed... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
we want to convey." Marketing efforts will include creating new publications targeted at specific audiences, as well as sending HBS representatives to colleges and universities to discuss business-education options with undergraduates.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Solve Our Most Urgent Problems By Mitchell Weiss, Professor of Management Practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow Harvard Business Review Press The huge challenges we face are daunting indeed: climate change, crumbling infrastructure, and declining View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
community can also use workstations in this area to access research tools, including Bloomberg, Thomson StreetEvents, and S&P Ratings Direct. For those who would rather read a newspaper than power up a laptop, there are nineteen international and U.S. business View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance, there’s this large View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
more than anything else, I think I've done just about all of them." Walling's interest in educational reform runs deep, and when you ask him about his experiences on the front lines of the battle for better schools, he doesn't hide his... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
privilege of her education to elevate feminine voices in the music industry. Gandhi has released two albums of her own since graduating from HBS and is working on her third. She is also a public speaker and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
volume's publication marks the realization of a long-held ambition for Strassler, who first became acquainted with English versions of Thucydides in high school and college. "Thucydides' history is a window on the world of Athens and... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Palo Alto, CA Business management software, solutions, and services Lionel Bony (MBA 2006) Rocky Mountain Institute Snowmass and Boulder, CO Nonprofit research and educational foundation aiming to foster efficient and sustainable use of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
cause chronic stress. Chronic stress can contribute to high blood pressure, a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, diabetes, obesity, gastrointestinal problems, and accelerated aging. There was also a study by a Harvard professor [David Williams, at the T.H.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
pulling the financial system back from the brink. This marked a sharp contrast to the disastrous “liquidationist” policies of the early 1930s, when public officials (particularly at the Federal Reserve) were so afraid of moral hazard that... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
waste, and have significantly lower rates of waste than the national average.” Kendall says the foundation’s multi-year, $485,000 grant to the university has helped it develop new relationships with local growers, processors, and distributors and funded View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
its focus and delivering on expectations - will be communicating with the public it would like to benefit. "The key is education and public dialogue," says Gail Maderis.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna