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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
either from the run of play or impact with the playing surface. Improvements in equipment and rule changes can make things better but probably not eliminate the longer-term danger of life-shortening injury or impairment. Is it possible that View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
completely off guard. Drawing on social science theory, he developed a tentative notion that “there are negative events out there waiting to happen, which people have sufficient information to predict or prevent, but for various reasons... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
public policy, and social challenges. In health care, for example, the dominant policy model assumes that access and affordability are the keys to improving care for the poor. In Ashraf’s view, “We can’t solve the challenges of global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
business as a profession, with the social implications and heightened sense of responsibility that goes with that.” Said Light, “This is an important aspect of HBS, and has been since our founding.” The conference, led by Alumni Chair... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
function,” said Roundtable president John Castellani. Skeptics of government intervention are quick to point out that more than two decades of well-meaning attempts to constrain ever-soaring corporate pay and to reform governance through legislation, regulation, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
society with bad business decisions is magnified by multipliers that include technology, financial interdependencies, and pressure to react quickly in increasingly competitive environments. The solution can begin with one participant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
institutions ranging from Wall Street, to law and business schools, to the AFL-CIO examining the responsibilities of “gatekeepers” — corporate directors, regulators, auditors, lawyers, investment bankers, and journalists. They find that market View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its innovation but also on the design and... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a number of new options, including... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
“It’s still early in its implementation and a process of two steps forward and one step back,” Cohen cautions. “Development pressures are huge,so we keep our fingers crossed.” In 1997, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright asked Cohen to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
organizing committee. “Consumers, workers, government, and financial institutions are putting increasing pressure on companies to provide more sustainable products and services. We felt it would be interesting to share how leadership is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
more of a global scope, which can be helpful in applying international pressure or embarrassment for having this person in prison. Basically, we're trying to raise the costs of keeping this person in prison versus the benefit of keeping... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
those who were getting cash. "It isn't that money doesn't work," but that money's incentivizing power can be overvalued, Ashraf explains. "The takeaway is in fact that we have a hierarchy of needs that includes social recognition." By... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
Program resembled a two-year road race, a relentless marathon of cases, with only Sundays off. Three afternoons a week, a few dozen students from around the world would escape the pressure on the rough-and-tumble rugby pitch, in sharp... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
by federal law, in order to receive government reimbursements. “As a provider with limited resources and tremendous pressure to decrease cost, we can only focus on so many initiatives at once,” notes Kevin Donovan, CEO of Mt. Ascutney... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
get comfortable giving in to extortion in various countries, that can lead to crossing the line into capture.” Companies’ reputations can affect the degree of corrupting pressures to which they are subjected. But even when firms strive to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
exert pressure on Washington to support reform, and educating the public for new laws to increase disclosure and accountability, as well as ending the pay-to-play culture in DC. J.B. Lyon (MBA 1996), founding board member New Profit is a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
environmental management. Reinhardt argues that in order to manage the environmental challenge successfully, firms should improve their cost management, reduce risk, create and capture value, and help develop new approaches to complicated economic and View Details