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- 01 Mar 2010
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A Helping Hand for Health Care
The HBS Buffalo Club continued its tradition of sponsoring community leaders for HBS Executive Education courses by sending senior management teams from two of the area’s health-care providers to the School’s new Managing Health- care Delivery program. The three-week... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
to blame for the recent financial crisis? The fault lies partly with scholars of economics, says David Moss, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration. In this working paper, he argues that an academic focus on government... View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, HBS student Andrew Sridhar (MBA 2010) cited what he calls “troubling” aspects of the oath. For example, he doesn’t buy the professionalization analogy with oaths in law, medicine, or the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Check Is in the Mail
Credit due: Trade cards ca. 1870 (top) showed that everything from sewing machines to harvesters could be purchased on installment; the dangers of extending credit instead of demanding cash (bottom); Baker Library Historical Collections View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
scientific knowledge into commercial applications. For HBS participants, an overriding goal was to gain a better understanding of how the School might best contribute to this effort. “To maintain a leadership position globally, the United States needs high value-added... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World. One participant wondered how the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
companies with estimated annual revenues of $4 billion, is one of the world's most colorful business leaders. His oft-repeated message: "If your business isn't fun, it's ultimately going to be worthless to you." From its airline to View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Celebrations in LA, Florida, London
relevance and to the strength of European alumni interest in broadening and deepening the School’s efforts to that end. The campaign, which runs through December 2005 and has already raised more than $400 million, is designed to support five key areas: student View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947)—business leader, community collaborator, prominent philanthropist, education visionary—died February 7 at age 92. During a lauded career, Whitehead guided Goldman Sachs to the forefront of investment banking; served his country as deputy... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
that can't tell you exactly how much our customers have on deposit. We have 35-year-old systems for maintaining records on tape files. Our collection process and compliance examinations are months or years behind, largely due to antiquated systems. We collect $1.5... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
MBAs by the Numbers
particularly pleased that the Class of 2007 has the highest representation of women in the School’s history,” said Brit K. Dewey (MBA ’96), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. As the new MBA candidates settled into life... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
a lucrative deal intended to help Quibi compete with a growing pack of streaming services on the prowl for content. Netflix, for one, has been acquiring content at a pace almost no one can match and reportedly spent $12 billion on content... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Financial Crises, 1830s–1930s” uses letters, photos, cartoons, old money, and legislative documents to chart four economic implosions that occurred in 1837, 1873, 1907, and 1929. While offering a fascinating glimpse into the unique... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
becomes even smaller. Just as we pointed out earlier in the context of how much time modern people spend indoors, once again the building industry discussion has missed the key 90 percent—the impact of the big expense, the people. View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development
a press briefing, Barkat explained that he has adopted Porter’s cluster-based development approach to focus on three existing areas of strength: culture and tourism, health care and life sciences, and outsourced medical and financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
observes. For the $17 billion retailer, the dual crises were a reminder that the services the company provides are necessary ones. There were very human moments of fear and panic—when store managers in fire-ravaged New South Wales sent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
HBS's Unique Economic Model
limited growth capacity. On the MBA side, today's economy does not allow for significant tuition increases. In addition, since 2008, financial aid need has risen, minimizing the impact of tuition increases. Executive Education, a thriving... View Details