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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
anyone. Most of the top executives didn’t understand the risks they were taking, so can you imagine a septuagenarian sitting in the boardroom getting a PowerPoint presentation on synthetic CDOs and credit default swaps?” In a conference View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
of key business functions (finance, marketing, human resources, IT, and law), specific strategic options (M&A, reorganization, and joint ventures), and popular tools for analyzing strategic situations (Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma).... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
The way Áslaug Magnúsdóttir sees it, her new website, Tinker Tailor, which uses interactive web technology to customize high-end designer clothing, is an old-school approach to fashion. “Couture always was a collaboration between the designer and the customer,” says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
options to assist people with substance use issues. Then he learned that there were better treatments available—a category of interventions known as contingency management, which offer motivational incentives for staying sober. “But no... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
McGinnis. A venture capitalist and author of the bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur, McGinnis has since turned FOMO and FOBO into a career unto themselves, with a podcast on the HBR network called FOMO Sapiens and a book on the topic in the... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2007, Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell wrote a book called Lone Survivor, which recounted his experience during a 2005 mission in Northeastern Afghanistan that ultimately... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
spring, Moskowitz and five classmates launched a startup they call Boxxify to provide a solution. E-commerce customers have their packages delivered to Boxxify, which, for a $7 fee (regardless of number of items), drops them off with... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
include offerings not only from the current required and elective curricula of both schools but new, specially designed courses and seminars. Students will have two degree options — the Master in Public Policy/Master in Business... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
becoming candidates. This is not a call for privatization of services (like trash pickup), which is already widespread. Instead, it’s a suggestion that the job of mayor itself be awarded by voters to a private firm. Unlike other... 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 public health... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
behalf. A great place to start is the HBS Global Leadership Forum held last June 21–23 in London. It was the latest in a series of global events initiated more than a decade ago by the Alumni Board and was initially called the Global... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
business will pay for the services of your graduates if they don’t ask the hard questions? Meeting others who can advance your career isn’t all there is, maybe that is what “nobody really understood.” Timing is everything. Light, “an expert on finance,” had his chance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
every corner, especially once you start looking for them. Too often leaders get stuck in the balance between option A or B, trapped by the trade-offs inherent in either/or thinking. A both/and approach to problem-solving, by contrast, can... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
out of it fine, but that is the lens through which I now look at food allergies.” For Greg, that harrowing experience also recalled a story from decades earlier. He was an undergraduate at Dartmouth when his roommate got a middle-of-the-night View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
the first step toward breaking that code. In 2017, the team conducted a field study in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, which announced a call for research proposals for solutions to human health problems. The researchers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
to what will replace Fannie and Freddie. The administration has outlined three options designed to frame the congressional debate expected to unfold over the months ahead: (1)privatization of the mortgage market, (2) new private,... View Details