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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Robert McNamara Dies at 93
One of Harvard Business School’s most prominent graduates, Robert McNamara (MBA 1939), passed away in July. McNamara once told the Bulletin that he had intended to lead a quiet academic life as an HBS professor (see McNamara profile... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
a private media company and Karisimbi client. The group worked with Tele-10 to identify ways to improve its advertising sales process for radio advertising and to help improve customer service for its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
by Scott Green (MBA 1989)(Wiley) A practical approach for managers who want to improve internal controls to prevent fraud. Learning to Love Africa by Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) (HarperBusiness) Maddy’s memoir chronicles her journey from a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of the city, the Indonesian capital is a sea of gray stretching into the haze. No one knows for sure how big metropolitan... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
become an aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit,’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane, founder of Edify, a nonprofit that provides micro-enterprise loans to faith-based schools in Africa and Latin America. “I’m... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect
improving the city's wastewater service. In 1997, the Philippine government enlisted Ayala Corporation to assume control of the water and sewer systems of Manila's east zone, where more than 60 percent of the water was either lost or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
achieve sustained high commitment and high performance. Basing his approach on leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to build a complete system that will spell business success no matter how challenging the economic climate.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
companies, requiring the same critical, honest thinking about leadership development. Improving the cross-fertilization between business and education would help. It'd be great to have a kind of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Comings and Goings
of 2004 embarked on new careers. Thanks to an improved hiring climate and active marketing outreach by MBA Career Services, the number of job openings posted for HBS students increased by 20 percent over last year. At graduation, 94... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
New Orleans Resonance
annual improvements of between 11 and 39 percent, earning the school widespread acclaim. London’s Sunday Telegraph (September 12, 2010) declared NOCP “part of the boldest experiment in education reform seen in the United States, and one... View Details
Keywords: charter schools
- 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
in Rwanda’s most impoverished villages. To help improve the function of the Rwanda Development Board, another team examined the cost to business of governmental bureaucracy. “I believe that people learn the... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Helping Young African MBAs Go Home
listed.” The group also helps would-be business students apply to American schools. “Part of what we do is purely applications, helping to improve representation of Africans in View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lending rates and the program’s ultimate benefit, since many of the women had not been able to substantially grow their food and crafts businesses or greatly improve their quality of life over the years.... View Details
- 30 Aug 2021
- News
One and the Same
rather than a weakness.” Wooldridge has been working to subvert gender imbalances ever since. In May, she was named director of the Workplace Gender and Equality Agency (WGEA), a government entity devoted to promoting and improving gender... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- News
Jeremy Grantham on the Battle to Save Society from Climate Change: ‘We’re Not Winning’
newspaper. “But if anything [that ratio is] shading down, we’re not winning. We’re overtly losing, despite some of our best efforts.” The article mentions that Grantham—who recently spoke at an HBS Business and Environment Initiative... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
in its first year to 300 last year, taught in four sections by Henderson and George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration. Here, they talk about the shifting shape of leadership. How has the course evolved... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Feb 2016
- News
Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
James McGee (MBA 1980) is founder of Collaborating Minds, an information-sharing and problem-solving technology platform. In this video, he explains the idea that inspired his new business venture. “I think I’ve tried to make an impact on... View Details