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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
executive director of the DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB), practices a nationally renowned model of school account-ability. Pearson oversees a $600 million budget for 57 charter operators that serve almost half of DC's public school... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
ought to be held accountable for turning out the kinds of leaders the world needs, people who bring both character and competence to their work. Do our alumni make the world better? I think clearly they do, in many different ways. HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
though many kinds of cyber intrusions are not required to be reported or made public, known U.S. assaults are up nearly 300 percent since 2001, when over 52,000 cyber incidents were recorded. In that year, by some estimates, hacking View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
decide, for example, when to disclose plans for the merger, what restrictions to place on insider use of information, what counts as fair and proper accounting and taxation, and how to treat employees who may lose their jobs. "In M&As;... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Ebrahim is delineating a framework that takes into account the inherent uncertainty and complexity of measuring results in the social sector. EBRAHIM: The hard work of measuring impact becomes easier "Performance measurement in nonprofits... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
achieved without asking where or how they achieved it. In hiring, we must ask, are we appropriately accounting for a candidate’s situation? Are evaluations of the candidate based on both actions and outcomes?” If that has you feeling... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
What’s a typical day like as executive director of Children’s HealthWatch? “Days vary quite a bit here, and that is one piece of what drew me to this role. As executive director, I work closely with our academic/pediatric leadership, our... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
system of support services for Navy families, from her perspective as the first director of the Family Support Program. A portion of the proceeds Launching the Navy Family Support Program will go to selected organizations that benefit... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to transform HBS internally, nurture relationships with the University and our neighbors, and foster a shared vision for racial equity. The CDIO will have a key role in influencing the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Donella Rapier to Head External Relations
an audit senior manager in Boston. In that position, Rapier developed materials and conducted courses on a variety of accounting and auditing topics. This interest led in 1995 to a part-time faculty appointment, teaching View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding the language of business
When the late James F. Rothenberg (AB 1968, MBA 1970) arrived at HBS, the recently graduated Harvard College English major had to learn the intricacies of accounting as well as the language of business. These skills served him well during... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions rallied the team, recalls Jon Puz... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
in the organizations they lead. " Fostering creativity in others is what former student Jeffrey H. Flemings (MBA '96) does for a living. Flemings, associate director of the Consumer Insight Group at Arnold Communications, a regional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
although from the beginning it has been closely affiliated and supported by Bain & Company, where Tierney was worldwide managing director before leaving in 2000 to cofound Bridgespan. Over the years, Bain’s support has been instrumental... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Series kicked off September 15 with HBS Professor George Serafeim, who talked about his Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS. Impact-weighted accounts offer a tool for measuring a company’s external... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
Linder Photo Courtesy of Accenture Institute As research director at the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business, Jane C. Linder (MBA 1976, DBA 1989) was asked to provide a managing director with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
investments, and their responsibility to investors? Legislation mandating reform can be passed quickly compared with the time needed to change people’s behavior. Some believe that things won’t really change until we have a new generation of directors. The problem is... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
vice president of the school's 1,200-member marketing club, she also served as its director of special projects in charge of six committees. At the same time, she and another student partner operated a campus specialty-apparel business,... View Details