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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
Offspring Beth, MBA '97 John, HBS '03 Hobbies Sailing, skiing Recommended Reading A Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell "Sowell provides important insights into public policy and how it is driven by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
reimagine an MBA Program that both embraces and overcomes a geographically dispersed class. The hybrid capabilities we developed in 2021 will serve as the foundation to our efforts, and we’ll explore how we might leverage our regional... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Boston-based team or perhaps establishing hybrid clusters in a few hub cities. Beyond the cost-savings of not paying rent, a remote-first approach would allow OnRamp to hire the best talent, wherever they live. That’s significant in a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
band Midnight Oil and an address by environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr. (Ron Bull/Toronto Star/Getty Images) More than 900 protesters were arrested in anti-logging demonstrations in British Columbia during the 1990s—a conflict that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
inclusion—and then sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change. The desire to produce thought leadership at a fast pace, the Dean said, is the catalyst for the new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
accommodation to a host of conflicting interests, an arrangement that damaged society’s economic well-being. The agency theorists had a broad impact on corporate policy and, in particular, on a fundamental... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
people often don’t have the financial wherewithal and broad general skills to leave behind a job where they are intimidated. Working in fear is a terrible way to live, and a secret ballot can ameliorate much of that fear. Michael A. Petronino (MBA ’64) Stratford, CT... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Primary.com’s policy says that employees are free to use their Fridays however they wish. Get a haircut, take the kids to the orthodontist or watch TV while they’re at school, or possibly finish up a work task. “It’s all fair game,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to brashly demand kickbacks on the commissions iTrust earns from the vendors whose products we sell,” says Varma. iTrust dealt with this problem head on by posting its kickbacks policy on its Web site. It reads in part: Under no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
of the MBA Program before focusing his research on how large institutional investors make decisions about social issues. (He also worked simultaneously at a small church in Somerville, Massachusetts.) With DBA in hand, from 1989 to 1996, he taught ethics and public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
with the investment-management firm PIMCO, Lemmon is now the deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, the influential, nonpartisan think tank headquartered in New York. She has recently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
competitive advantage. The sector’s unique hybrid status means that new entrants require not only the standard mix of tech and business savvy vital to the success of any startup, but also a high degree of what Gotsch calls “domain... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
he had with these doyens, in an easy-to-read, anecdotal form. Converting the Saints: A Study of Religious Rivalry in America by Charles Randall Paul (MBA 1972) Greg Kofford Books Inc. In this study of religious conflict in the US, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
pulp, livestock, and soy,” he explains. “It’s definitely big picture but there’s also a lot of one-on-one consensus building.” In an organization with “a big, hairy mission,” Murphy says conflicting demands, priorities, and constituencies... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
districts. Teacher layoffs were also on the table: The number, initially set at 89, was whittled down to 51; after months of debate and conflict with local teacher unions (there are two in Scranton), 16 teachers would be furloughed in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
advisor to the newly formed government of East Timor. “You had yesterday’s freedom fighters now trying to figure out how to run a country,” he says. “Our job was to help them navigate the big policy and technical issues of various... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil wars. Based on a half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, itpresents the history of the conflict through the voices of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
to recognize responsibility.” A Conflicted Warrior Only weeks after being named Ford president, McNamara was tapped by the newly elected Kennedy administration to be Secretary of Defense. The early years at the Pentagon were among the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons