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- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
When economist Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (MBA 1993) was elected mayor of Argentina’s capital in 2015, he promised to address conditions in the city’s slums, which house about a quarter million of the city’s 3 million people. A recent article in the Financial Times... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
How Ceres Supports Corporate Boards to Accelerate Climate Action
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Top-Flight Tory
His grandfather was a Communist, and he was born to a single mother living in council housing, but David Davis (AMP 96, 1985) has grown up to become a leading figure in Britain’s Conservative Party. His humble origins may give him broad national appeal to go along with... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Quick .who was the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize? Until a few days ago, I had no clue and I’m not proud of that. That’s one reason I went to see and hear the former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, as he took part in two panel discussions at HBS a few... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue will not go away. Directors are... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
principles to help counteract this trait: seeking truth persistently, accepting personal responsibility, and delaying gratification (i.e., accepting present pain for future benefit). These ideas, he acknowledges, are stressed in nearly all major world religions. View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
Will the real Robert Kinloch Massie (DBA '89) please stand up? Priest. Politician. University lecturer. Medical marvel. Social activist. Prize-winning historian. Environmentalist. Executive. While Bob Massie is justified in rising to acknowledge any of these... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family Business Needs a Board
- 10 May 2022
- News
Why Blockchain’s Ethical Stakes Are So High
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Former Professor and Associate Dean Vernon Alden Passes Away
Vernon Alden (MBA 1950), has passed away at age 97. A former associate dean and faculty member at HBS, Alden would go on to become the president of Ohio University at age 38. He would later help support President Lyndon Johnson develop the Job Corps program, part of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
When Bill George (MBA ’66) talks about leadership, people listen. And well they should. For a decade, he quietly grew a midsized Minnesota medical-device maker into a world-class medical technology company. When George joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and COO, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
2003 Business Statesman Award recipient Hank Paulson and Scott Meyer (MBA ’96), former HBSCNY president. Larry Busacca Photography Henry M. Paulson, Jr. (MBA ’70), chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, received the 2003 Business Statesman Award from the HBS Club of... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- News
Best in Show
Parrish: To counter a down economy, laughter was the best medicine. Long an occasion for high jinks and good laughs, the HBS Show was born in dark times. Oil shocks, inflation, and high unemployment were the order of the day when Joe Parrish (MBA 1974) pulled together... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up for Grabs
WHITMAN: After a successful career at eBay, going for the gold in California. Making her biggest bid in a career built on bids, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) threw her hat into the ring in September and formally declared that she wants one of the nation’s... View Details
- 31 Dec 2021
- News
Programs on Board Leadership
- 25 Aug 2015
- News