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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
in a global century. For its part, HBS intends to provide today’s MBA students with experiences on campus and off that, in Dean Nitin Nohria’s view, “are un-matched in global breadth of analysis and understanding.” — Roger View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
territories, there’s hardly a place on earth that hasn’t been represented in an HBS classroom. Who knows. Maybe the Class of 2012 will boost the School’s total country count even higher. Roger Thompson View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
the sector is poised on the brink of transformation, a topic he enthusiastically expounded upon during a recent interview in his Morgan Hall office. Roger Thompson: The terms "social enterprise" and "nonprofit" seem to... View Details
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- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System (John Wiley & Sons). Roger Thompson: How does the government figure out which financial institutions... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s venture-capital firms and scores of venture-backed companies among its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
school that looks just like an academic department elsewhere in a university — to a true professional school where we’re developing not just knowledge but also skills, purpose, and identity. To the extent that our book moves business schools in that direction, which we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
successor? It would be to continue to innovate while keeping true to the values of the institution. That, I think, is the secret to the School’s success. — Roger Thompson View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
Street Journal, the New York Times, Fast Company, and The Economist. Proof positive, she added, that “we’ve come a long way, baby.” Indeed, and the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been there every step of the way. —Roger Thompson View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business news. And I’m no stranger to the type of investment decisions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run health insurance option as creeping socialism. Unions... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Almost without notice in the American press, a new international effort is under way to create a standardized global reporting model for operating sustainable businesses in the 21st century. HBS professor Robert G. Eccles is on the steering committee of the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
The Obama administration reportedly is considering big changes in the broken system for taxing the foreign income of US corporations. US multinationals have piled up overseas cash holdings in excess of $1 trillion, according to some estimates. Under current law, income... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
Stirring up nutritious meals: On one of his frequent trips to Rwanda, Bill Wyman participates in a class that teaches mothers how to prepare healthy meals for their children. Photo courtesy Bill and Ro Wyman Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido")... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Russo at home in her Brisbane apartment. She credits her domineering Sicilian father with teaching her the street smarts to succeed in business. PHOTO BY PATRICK HAMILTON /NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Every successful entrepreneur can look back and, with the clarity of hindsight,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck Illustration by Zachary Pullen When Tom Oreck (OPM 26, 1998) took over the family vacuum cleaner business seven years ago, his biggest challenge was to transform the firm from an entrepreneurial “one-man band” founded by his father, David, in 1963 into “a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage the nation’s... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
Tufano recently talked about the course and his determination to make consumer finance a broadly accepted academic pursuit. Roger Thompson: Why did you want to teach a course in consumer finance? Peter Tufano: The household sector in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
adjacent communities because all flights using it will land and take off over water. When will the new runway be available for service? Barring any other issues in the courts, which we don’t expect, we’re probably going to start construction this summer. We’ll be up... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in his 22-year teaching career. Although... View Details