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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Jensen Donates Grant
impact on corporate finance, corporate governance, and law and economics, announced in January that he will donate the $200,000 cash grant to the National Bureau of Economic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Snappy Salute
Pinchuk: CEO of a precision-tool company doesn’t exactly fit the mold. As CEO of Snap-on, Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA ’76) heads a company that’s all about precise fits for its tools. But he himself is no standard-issue corporate chieftain. A... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
associate dean for Faculty Development and Research and faculty director of the Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Project. “The national unemployment rate early in the pandemic had jumped to over 13 percent; the standard prediction... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity
Richard H. K. Vietor, Baker Foundation Professor, is an expert on how nations compete—and he’s worried about the United States. Vietor focuses on government policies, laws, and other actions that affect competitiveness, defined as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Is your company doing enough to protect itself from cyber attacks? According to several HBS faculty and alumni experts, senior executives need to pay more attention to this potential threat. It makes good business sense — and fulfills a View Details
- 21 Aug 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
handling international accounts, corporate lending, and managing assets for the First National Bank of Chicago. Quainton found that he was good at listening to clients and helping people solve problems. It... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
so close to death was a wake-up call," she says. "It made me reevaluate how I wanted to spend the rest of my life." Upon reflection, she decided to leave the corporate world and take time off to write, with the plan of eventually starting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming volume 17 of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
these problems. When we stepped back from our discussions and considered what was being said, it was clear that the golden goose—global market capitalism—was at risk from the impact of an interrelated set of forces more powerful than the economic and political... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
the rising generation of girls to assume positions of leadership. Deborah Singer (MBA 2013) is chief marketing officer of the national nonprofit that is working to transform the idea of what a programmer looks like. Between summer and... View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
for senior executives when his son was a second-year MBA student. Spangler also chaired the Bank of North Carolina during the 1980s, playing a key role in its merger with the North Carolina National Bank View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
media wanted Glauber’s expert opinion. After all, he played a key role in setting up the Resolution Trust Corporation to handle the S&L bailout in the late 1980s, and he helped formulate regulatory reform of commercial banks in the early... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
their peers,” he says. For Army Colonel Everett Spain (DBA 2014), who served in Kosovo and Iraq, it’s equally clear why military veterans are attracted to business school: “In business, you can continue to be a leader of character in an investment bank or a Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
The Differentiated Network by Nitin Nohria and Sumantra Ghoshal (Jossey-Bass Publishers) The key to building an effective multinational corporation (MNC) is organizing its various parts as a differentiated network, according to a new book... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
costs, and widespread patient frustration. The cure for these ailments lies in better use of health-care technology, says David J. Brailer, national coordinator for Health Information Technology, a newly created position he has held since... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June
years of reunification. The conference theme, "Knowledge, Risk & Change: Business Without Walls," will give participants an opportunity to consider the future of business and financial institutions in an environment of tightly linked View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
conferences, held in a different U.S. city each year, have provided access to an impressive roster of corporate executives and public-sector officials, often drawn from the host city's leading industries and institutions. Observed HBSAAA... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
Seldom, if ever, has global competition been so glamorous, or so passionately beheld. At soccer's World Cup in France this summer, hundreds of thousands of spectators and a cumulative TV audience of 37 billion cheered and wept as 32 View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons