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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
documents as well as from private diaries, letters, and secret audio recordings. The book casts new light on Roosevelt’s concealment of what America knew about Hitler’s war against the Jews and explores suspicions that Soviet secret View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
A Chance to Thrive
be part of the HBS community. I want to do my part to help them.” She is also keen on supporting the School. “HBS is in a unique position to influence business leaders around the world. We can really be agents for change.” Zollar notes... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
and product markets." Jensen and his contributors detail three major systems that play a critical role in organizational strategy and help address control problems within the decentralized organization. They are a system for allocating decision rights among View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
All six of these alumni change agents identified a problem and set out to fix it. Their examples illuminate a path for others to follow. What’s That Funny Graphic? You’ll notice something new in this issue — small, strange-looking square... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
estimated in advance by companies who specialize in this sort of analysis. Bonds can be purchased to cover cost overrun risks, too. And it doesn’t hurt to have the reality check of a bonding agent looking over the movie’s projected... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
McCray, who sees herself as an agent of change, was most interested in policy solutions. When one classmate proposed dispersing reparations in the form of college scholarships, McCray voiced concern about overlooking those who don’t... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
priority to help as many people as I could while working at MGM. Creative Artists Agency was still very new, and their agents had restricted expense accounts, so I always made sure to invite my friends at CAA to screenings so they could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
Bend’s rebranding over its 100-year history, and its Spirit of the Silver Lining Award, which celebrates independent insurance agents for outstanding service to nonprofit organizations in their communities, and includes grant money to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system should spend dollars on a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with James Andrew Miller
The then 24-year-old didn’t know he had something big on his hands until his agent negotiated a publishing deal: “That’s your first peek at what the market potential is,” Miller says. Miller went on to write Live from New York, a history... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
least. He also realized that a large part of the problem was information asymmetry—the government agents are able to get bribes because they know how government works, while the people paying bribes don’t. And there was another, more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
must be like to be a celebrity. I wrote a case study on Maria Sharapova, and her agent allowed me to shadow her for a day and a half. I saw her receive an award and give a speech at the United Nations, interact with sponsors, attend a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
management as an agent of shareholders and a servant to share price. Other stakeholders, such as workers and communities, no longer mattered. The rise of agency theory and its dissemination in business schools reflected, among other... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
players. Significantly for the sports industry's economics, TV revenues helped fuel the explosion in player salaries. Like everyone else, athletes gaped at the size of TV contracts and - assisted by an emerging group of player agents -... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
she set out to find a three- to four-story building. At first, no real estate agent returned her calls. She chalked it up to sexism. “They weren’t taking me seriously,” Russo recalls during a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
and become mere purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Moral ideals that once inspired business schools have been replaced by the view that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
his first visit to the United States in 1995. "Even more breathtaking is the economic change that the Chinese have produced in their country since 1980. It speaks to an energy and entrepreneurial zeal that I find exciting." As an agent of... View Details