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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
obituary and Sheryl’s reflections on his unexpected death. That comes close to Marcus Aurelius thinking about his own mortality in Meditations; Augustine’s account of his mother’s death in Confessions; an extract from the historian... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
SHAICH by Julia Hanna Imagine a restaurant that doesn't charge for its food. There's a box for money—and a suggested donation amount—but no one can see what you pay, if you pay anything at all. That's the concept behind Panera Cares, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
compensation consultants who legitimize outrageous pay; accountants and attorneys who see no evil; legal vote buying; and rampant conflicts of interest. They discuss what happened, or failed to happen, in the boardrooms of Lehman... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
and news to social media and video. That stability becomes easier to understand if you take into account that internet use inside most homes is an activity that takes place in little moments of free time that don’t change much. This... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
from a collection of diplomacy cases developed in the last decade. Through in-depth interviews with top diplomats and negotiators on the front lines of tense international conflicts, Watkins and Rosegrant have distilled a set of basic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA),” recalls McGee. They ultimately decided to focus on Apple, because of the company’s emphasis on consumer privacy, and their 2016 case, “Apple: Privacy vs. Safety,” addressed the federal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
moved the needle at all.” Accountability is what will differentiate an insipid pledge from real progress. The objective is to define what progress looks like in practice. “There’s a basic framework for this,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
assumptions built into my portfolio to weather the storms? These are basic questions, but questions that have been mostly ignored over the past several years. What do you recommend as an appropriate mix for the portfolios of the high... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
up. This is the category in which you’ll find a growing list of concepts like escape rooms, high-tech art animations, virtual-reality pop-ups, and interactive, Instagram-ready dreamscapes. On the more traditional side, it also includes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks and rewards of approaching an area like Dharavi with a new model in mind: slums as lucrative and socially entrepreneurial... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
basic accounting that is coming in handy at the moment. She points out that, in addition to handling advance payments, dealing with the challenges of raising capital, scouting locations, and building... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
and changing market dynamics, all while still launching new products and services to remain competitive. Robinhood has adapted to many changes and, if anything, has proven to be a disruptor in how it has taken the concept of investing and... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
wife also tend to 20 sheep, two alpacas, three dogs, and a cat. The couple grow their own produce and are awaiting the spoils of a recently planted truffle orchard. Gower says his time at HBS gave him the clarity to take that leap and change his career and life paths.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
happiest part of my day is normally in the evening when [I] sit down with my wife as we account for our day’s earnings from our different sources of income.” Since GiveDirectly launched, cash payments have become a growing, though still... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
Family-owned companies account for more than two-thirds of all business around the globe. In fact, most of the world's largest and most influential business organizations are family-run. In the United States, for example, firms such as... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
losses in June. Will crypto overcome the challenges on the road to mainstream adoption? What’s standing in its way? HBS faculty members Charles C.Y. Wang, who has written about public firms’ investments in, and accounting for,... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
entities and markets, we try to educate people about the basic principles of personal financial management, so they understand all the tools available to them to secure a strong financial future. Then, once they’re ready to invest or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
trying to move the basic building-block skills out of the required curriculum and into prematriculation. Our goal is to free up time for students to delve more deeply into the economic logic required to solve problems and into the larger... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to reach into developing countries... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
is to improve quality,” he said, “because better health is cheaper than bad health.” This new model, he noted, takes into account obstacles to care that are present in developing countries, such as poor transportation, and also harnesses... View Details