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- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
Summing Up Are Education And Mobility The Keys To Reaching The Right Amount Of Inequality? Questions about the right amount of inequality provoked thoughtful comment this month about the nature of the question, definitions, measures, and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students in both the MBA and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
30-year low, stagnating middle-class wages, and a political system seemingly incapable of agreement. "So what happened—and what are we going to do about it?" asked Porter. These questions were the impetus behind HBS's US Competitiveness... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
and capital only serve to stifle economic growth and opportunity, Nohria wrote. He also took note of critics who point to instances of global financial misdeeds, mistakes, or crises over the past decade and attack Wall Street for its apparent “greed” and self-interest.... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
from post-secondary education and training to career. We’ll look at the effectiveness of state systems and consider the policy options at both the state and federal levels. We’ll also discuss underemployment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
them — were needed to stem internal bleeding caused by even mild stress on his joints. His blood-filled knees and ankles left Massie unable to walk and brought on “interminable nights when pain banished sleep,” he later wrote. His parents battled an unresponsive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
aboard the cruiser USS Topeka in 1945 when the ship received President Truman’s announcement of the dropping of the atom bomb. As the ship’s announcer, I read Truman’s words over the PA system to the entire crew. When I finished, there... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Bridges (a capstone at the end of the two years), and several entirely new Executive Education courses. In our doctoral programs, we launched PRIMO, a summer program that connects undergraduates with our faculty to learn about management... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
[see sidebar] further reflects the wide range of issues covered by our faculty. What can we learn from this region? The Asia Pacific, where 2,000 languages are spoken, is home to 60 percent of the world's population. The region's diverse economic, cultural, legal, and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
“favorable.” Case method of teaching 86 % Case materials 84 % Faculty 84 % Elective courses 81 % Other class members 78 % Section experience 78 % Required courses 75 % Grading system 67 % Study groups 57 % Extracurricular activities 56 % View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
that is affordable and simple to use. In your book, you identify fee-for-service reimbursement as a “runaway reactor” in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? By some estimates, 50 percent of all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Coach for Life
college. Sweating the Small Stuff Each practice is planned in handwritten detail; nothing is too small to be ignored. Coach Hurley personally sweeps the court before games because "nobody sweeps the floor better than me." WINning Formula Hurley's own "WIN" View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive... View Details
- December 1997
- Case
Making the Grade (A)
By: Robert L. Simons
Focuses on the dilemma of a young professor at a graduate school of business. He must decide what final grade to give a student who has worked extremely hard, but he is constrained by the school's "forced curve" grading policy. Designed to explore the multiple purposes... View Details
Keywords: Design; Management Systems; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Education Industry
Simons, Robert L. "Making the Grade (A)." Harvard Business School Case 198-083, December 1997.
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
computer storing the data was not on campus. Doris at the dot-matrix printer, with a Decmate at the right Doris came to Alumni Records in 1979 after two years with the HBS Fund. That was the year HBS records were computerized using the VAX View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
father of two daughters educated in North Carolina public schools, Spangler has long been interested and involved in the state's educational system. He first took an active role in View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne