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- 01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal
Percent of Wealth Owned: Actual U.S. wealth distribution compared with Estimated and Ideal distributions reported by respondents in a national survey. The “4th” and “Bottom” groups are so small that they are not visible in the Actual... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
Image by John Ritter Is there a business case to be made for companies to act in environmentally friendly ways? Rebecca Henderson: If one can imagine that all business in the entire world was run by one... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
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The Art of Effecting Change
to bring new art to public museums by way of private funding—was an idea that Evans found intriguing. "Clearly, this has struck a chord," she says. "Quite simply, we are activating a new sector for engagement with the arts. Traditionally,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
from a natural catastrophe standpoint—and that's where people are moving and building. And so there's an increased concentration of property insurance exposure, in places that are more risky. And you know, if you have a home on the Outer Banks of the Carolinas and it... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Sep 2019
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Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot The rate at which people have been signing on to social media... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
HBS Faculty Member Honored
The first-place McKinsey Award for the best article to appear in Harvard Business Review during the previous year has gone to University Professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, a senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
fact-based, nonpartisan effort to understand what makes the US economy competitive. In 2016, with US economic performance lackluster and the public discourse in this critical presidential campaign muddled, the Project’s lead faculty members, professors View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Markets’ Moral Limits
Economics has lately “wandered” from its traditional study of phenomena such as business cycles and is now about commoditization, incentives, and “principles by which people make decisions,” declared Harvard government professor and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
HBS heavy-hitters Clay Christensen and Michael Porter closed out a recent conference organized by HBS and Harvard Medical School. Held on the HBS campus November 14 and 15, "Healing Ourselves: Addressing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Affluent in China and India by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA 1980), Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, and David Michael (Harvard Business Review Press) Silverstein and his BCG... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
In their HBS working paper "Overcoming the 'Silent Killers' to Strategy Implementation and Organizational Learning," HBS professor Michael Beer and Russell A. Eisenstat, president of the Center for Organizational Fitness, outline six... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Image by John Weber Related Links Featured research: "Think Customers Hate Waiting? Not so Fast..." Read Director John Korn's blog Did you know? HBS alumni include... As an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, Modupe Akinola... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
After the celebration and playfulness that’s taken place, you end by acknowledging what it is to be human and to let things go.” Participants take a spin on Michael Christian’s Eidolon Panspermia Ostentatia... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Smarter Together: How Communities Are Shaping the Next Revolution in Business By Rob Bernshteyn (MBA 2001) Greenleaf Book Group Press Driving value today requires information. Lots of information. Most of us are becoming good... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
destruction of natural habitats such as forests and wetlands. On the other hand, business is gradually beginning to make efforts to reverse those frightening trends by creating new processes, products, and paradigms that take the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New York Club Honors Armstrong, Graham
At its International Dinner last summer, the HBS Club of New York presented its Business Statesman Award to AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong and its Leadership Award to Katharine Graham, chair of the executive committee of the Washington Post... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
common errors or biases in decision-making and ideas for overcoming or avoiding them. "Smart Choices should be relevant and accessible to all MBAs," says Raiffa, adding a bit whimsically, "and to all non-MBAs as well." On Competition by... View Details