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- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
challenge—the business world. “I knew that if I were to pivot in my career that it had to begin at HBS.” Her decision to apply was influenced by the School’s need-blind admission policy and generous fellowship program, which has also... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
Does a new general manager who delegates decisions run the risk of appearing indecisive? Is an "open-door" policy a good way for a general manager to get information, or a terrible waste of time? What happens when a manager asks employees... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
startup evolve into Banco Pactual, which today is a full-service investment bank with a net worth of $700 million. Jakurski has found contrarian skepticism useful for analyzing emerging-market turbulence. "The government will enact a View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
1960. He has taught many courses in the MBA Program, including Management of International Business; Business, Government, and the International Economy; and Industry and Competitive Analysis. He also taught and served as course head of Business View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
overlooked question: If Japanese government policies and practices accounted for the nation's extraordinary competitiveness, then why wasn't Japan competitive in many of the industries where those policies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion annually in projects and programs... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
since your alumni director discovered that he had inherited an editorship along with his other problems, the Bulletin Policy Committee has been advising him to make a regular feature of two or three pages of interesting stuff about the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social scientist with a PhD in public... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
policy that didn’t exist,” he says. “Now the government took us a lot more seriously.” Eamer wasn’t leading table negotiations for the Nanwakolas Council, because he knew Smith and the other council leaders were excellent negotiators—they... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
children and a man serves as the village director, but in the United States that kind of model is seen as sexist," she says. "In fact, gender-based hiring is illegal here. Modifications need to be made if SOS children's villages are going to receive wider acceptance by... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
markets? —Timothy O'Sullivan (MBA 2001) KIRBY: I agree completely. The challenge is huge, however, since good health care (anywhere) is costly, and at present it is largely only available in quality in larger cities. The basic insurance View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
education leaders, a report was issued that highlighted three kinds of actions where business "champions," working alongside educators, could most add value: advocating policies that enable education innovation; scaling up innovations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
goal. Profits reported to tax authorities and to capital markets were essentially the same. Over time, well-considered exceptions — expensing of investments, for example — were introduced to advance policy goals such as stimulating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
choices between safety and affordability, all of us involved in policy cannot rest,” he told an audience of some two hundred participants gathered in Spangler Auditorium. Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly took an opposing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
attending the quarterly event. “We try to do it without the press,” he explains. “That's how we preserve the frankness and fluidity of the symposium.” Recent forums featured Lau Siu-kai, head of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
places that he said were "logistically hard and time-consuming." Few people in the world are as able as HBS grads to take a sabbatical: We are blessed with high incomes, fat savings (you do save, right?), and the ultimate career insurance View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to capitalize on it. Julia Trotman Brady (MBA 1997) Partner, Valo Ventures This is the most consequential View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
the sea to understand graphing. The program reshapes the lessons in real time in response to a student’s progress. The approach appears effective. A 2016 report from the Harvard University Center for Education Policy Research found that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
provides information and support to moms and sons and promotes positive images of black males. MOBB United for Social Change aims to influence policy at the local, state, and federal levels to impact how black boys and men are treated and... View Details