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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
professor Michael A. Cusumano identify the common magic mojo management practices of a trio who were individually very different people but who shared a similar drive. “All three were enormously ambitious and dreamed big dreams—not so... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
write to the government, and that started me thinking about America’s tax policy. Specifically, I recalled Warren Buffett’s observation that his secretary paid a higher tax rate than he did and that it was hard for him to justify that... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell appointed Wallace Brett Donham the Dean of Harvard Business School a century ago in October. The School’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
many others over the next two days, Morkel stated, "An African renaissance will be a pipe dream if we fail to realize that we are a part of the global village." Michael A. Thompson (85th AMP), who organized the conference with cochair... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
employees, and improve business outcomes through a flexible work strategy. More Alumni Books The New Legions: American Strategy and the Responsibility of Power by Edward B. Atkeson (AMP 64, 1972) ((Rowman and Littlefield)) 5 Fabulous Business Fables by View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation
lead to problems of its own. David A. Moss, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, has helped lead a team of scholars from across the country to examine how to mitigate or prevent regulatory capture by looking at the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
Charnovitz, George Washington University; Stacey M. Childress, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Mihir A. Desai, HBS; Daniel C. Esty, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Yale Law... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Many HBS graduates are now leading companies and nonprofit organizations involved in the environment or sustainability – as entrepreneurs, innovators, financiers, or philanthropists. Following is a selected list of notable alumni and the organizations. View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
Eugene Meyer, who acquired the newspaper in 1933, Graham graduated from Vassar and the University of Chicago and cut her teeth as a journalist in San Francisco before accepting a position as a reporter at the Post in 1938. In 1940, she married Philip Graham, a Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Non-Government Organizations in the 21st Century by John A. Quelch and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander (Thomson South-Western) Using twelve HBS cases, Professor Quelch and Laidler-Kylander (MBA ’92) examine how NGOs like Oxfam America, Doctors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Herlihy (MBA 1981) (Gerard A. Herlihy) A satire about another out-of-control commodity and stock market boom. Blowing Smoke: Essays on Energy and Climate by Rud Istvan (MBA 1974) (Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co.) From the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
middle class.” Consumers Need More Protection Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren is a bankruptcy and commercial law expert and co-author of The Two-Income Trap: Why... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
or private equity funds and from engaging in proprietary trading. The ban has been dubbed the Volcker Rule, in recognition of the former Federal Reserve chairman, Paul A. Volcker, who has championed the proposal. The administration says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
caregiver that is so important to patient-centered care. Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace by John A. Quelch (DBA 1977) and Carin-Isabel Knoop (MBA 1994) Springer This guide brings the relationship between... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
When HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan moved to Vevey, Switzerland, in 1973, it was his first experience living outside the United States. “I had three degrees from Harvard, and my major lifetime move had been from the western suburbs of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
Harvard Business School today released "Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided," a comprehensive analysis of the state of US competitiveness in 2016, based on five years of the US Competitiveness Project's multi-faculty research. The US Competitiveness Project was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
On the one hand, your company did extremely well last year. You reported large profits to your shareholders. On the other hand, last year was very difficult for your company. Your tax returns showed losses. Such a scenario is more and more common, according to HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
SOMETHING NEW happening with the newspaper ownership model. With John Henry, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos, we're starting to get some enlightened buyers. It's the first ray of hope I've seen in a while. The Seattle Times is one of only... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
became Dean," notes Professor F. Warren McFarlan, the School's senior associate dean, director of External Relations. "Over the last eighteen months, information technology has transformed the way our students communicate on campus and... View Details