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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
California Research Center Marks Fifth Year
steering committee chairman Arthur Rock (MBA ’51), CRC executive director Christina L. Darwall (MBA ’75) and her staff wrote a mock case about Rock, a legendary founding father of the venture capital industry. Rock, who was presented with... View Details
- Career Coach
Lindsay Muller
Network (Series A Kidney Dialysis Start-Up; Operations), International Rescue Committee (International Non-Profit; Innovation), Bain and Company (Strategy Consulting; Consultant) View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
research by three HBS professors suggests otherwise. The research project began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grows in powerful committee assignments, businesses back home benefit from the increased flow of... View Details
- Web
Clubs - Alumni
Volunteer Clubs Get Involved with a Club Over 100 alumni clubs, associations, shared interest groups, and affiliates around the world are already networking and serving their communities, including one near you. Volunteers serve as club and association leaders and... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Globalization By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51810 The Structure of Board Committees By: Chen, Kevin D., and Andy Wu Abstract—We document and analyze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
HBS was well-represented at Springboard 2000. Professor Myra Hart chaired the event and served on the steering committee with Angela Crispi (MBA '90), assistant dean and chief planning officer at the School. The following HBS alumnae were... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
three areas to address in committee this year: Alumni continuing education for the new millennium Online services for alumni Positioning clubs for the next century Each of these committees has important... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
of Business Administration, Emeritus. Yoshino is an expert in the areas of global strategy and management, competitive strategy, and general management. He served as a director of Research twice — from 1987 to 1994 and from 1997 to 2002. A founding member of the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
compensation committee of a major corporation knows that the coming "proposals" for the preservation of option grants at the top (supported by compensation consultant recommendations) will be based on such things as reward for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
official International Olympic Committee (IOC) worldwide sponsors are said to pay $90 to $100 million each for the right to use the rings globally in their marketing efforts. These companies typically spend large additional amounts on... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
congressional committee chairmanships? Joshua Coval: Our original goal was to investigate how politically connected firms benefit from increases in the power of their representatives. A benefit in focusing on changes in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Mary Falvey
up." I became the first woman to manage a profit center at Citibank and then the first woman to serve on the executive committee and board of directors of a Wall Street firm. I stepped in as CEO to lead my father’s company out of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
The first conference for HBS African-American alumni to be held outside Boston drew well over a hundred participants to the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco over Columbus Day weekend. A committee led by Steven R. Wilkinson (MBA '82)... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
domestic green energy industry that is going to be just as great in wealth creation as was the tech revolution in the 1990s.” Markey, chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, was a special guest speaker... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes Abstract African Art
museums such as the Tate Modern showcase their works. “There is power in abstract art, not merely as a stylistic mode, but as a personal choice for generations of African-American artists,” says the former member of the Obama administration’s View Details
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John D. Macomber | Working Knowledge
(Harvard University Press, 2020) Mr. Macomber is the Faculty Chair of the HBS Africa Research Center. He is also engaged in the Business and Environment Initiative and Social Enterprise Initiatives at HBS and is a member of the Executive View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who told him about his... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
company to transfer assets and liabilities to certain so-called special purpose entities (SPEs). According to the Powers report, which was published by a special committee of Enron's board after the company entered bankruptcy protection... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
UNC's “Accidental” Dean
In 1996, Jones was named CEO of Suncorp Metway Ltd., a leading Australian banking, insurance, and investment funds manager. Homeward bound with his wife and their four school-age children, Jones planned to take it easy for a while. But the search View Details