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- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
you think about that issue? A: There is a set of beliefs emanating largely from Europe and the United Kingdom that having a separate chairman and CEO is a good idea, better than the American model of combining the two. The notion is that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
Recent tax deal-making has relied on conventional instruments of fiscal stimulus. Yet, we live in unconventional times, and more novel approaches suited to the peculiarities of our current economy are required. In particular, the remarkable cash hoards that View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
lights in working order? Maybe not. The state of the nation's highways, bridges, airports, dams, seaports, and tunnels collectively rate a grade of D+, says the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has called for a $3.6 trillion... View Details
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Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Frederick Olmsted, Jr., who, with his brother John, had taken over the business from their father Frederick Law Olmsted, the great American landscape architect. The original competition guidelines noted that the HBS campus had “no natural... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
else struck you as you were writing this book? A: I was surprised that Gallatin was involved so deeply in managing the governments of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and by the significant diplomatic role he played in negotiating an end... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured. Rhenisch’s experience... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Past Issues - Alumni
plan, and a mission to create deep economic and social change, NBA Africa is shooting for a continental shift in basketball Singing to the Corn Taylor Keen’s Sacred Seed project shows how a Native American approach to agriculture can... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
subsequently joined Doriot’s venture capital firm American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), where he worked for seven years before forming Greylock in 1965 with fellow HBS alumni and ARD colleagues William Elfers (MBA 1943) and... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
says Anthony Harris (MBA 1979), president and CEO of the Fiberscope's maker, Campbell/Harris Security Equipment Company (CSECO). "If you catch vehicles going southbound, you generally interdict cash." This truck was going south: In the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
terminating an employee for a seemingly innocuous act of expression. Danielle Brown, Google’s new vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, hired just a few weeks before the memo was leaked to the public, must now advise... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Research Links - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Foundation. Full Text available as a networked resource Rakesh Khurana. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession . Princeton:... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
staff, and faculty who packed Burden Auditorium on Tuesday, September 23, as Congress hotly debated the then newly proposed $700 billion financial rescue legislation. The second panel convened two days later by Harvard President Drew... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
connections with historically Black organizations that have the talent.” The bronze statue of President Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
Cultural differences can influence business negotiations in significant and unexpected ways, as many a hapless dealmaker has learned. In some cases, it's a matter of ignorance or blatant disrespect, as with the American salesman who... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
antitrust issues increasingly factored into the strained relationship between the government and the steel industry. In testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in 1957, American steelmakers argued they could not... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance of New York’s American Museum of Natural History... View Details