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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
origins and evolution of the idea of the individual, finishing with the modern-day ideas of political theory and public policy. By identifying the key characteristics governments should either adopt or avoid to enable their citizens to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
households, or masters of the universe on Wall Street, rely on their own personal experience when forming judgments about the financial future. That means the average chief executive of an investment bank was working on data going back no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Johnson. Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice. 2 vols. by James L. Bess (MBA ’60) and Jay R. Dee (Stylus Publishing) The authors aim to show how college and university... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
brings a group together in an online forum to solve a specified "challenge." The participating HBS alumni researched the issues of long-term growth and job creation, generated theories of and potential solutions for the issue, and refined... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
reflects the same flawed assumptions shared by many otherwise astute individuals having no experience or expertise in the power industry. I am an energy industry professional of 28 years, one who has no quarrel with nuclear in principle.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
is energetic and vigorous. His gaze is intense, and the legendary steel-trap mind is still in evidence. “My HBS experience was a major event in my life,” he eagerly volunteers, gripping his visitor’s hand. “It opened my eyes to the role... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
throughlines he’s found is community joy and how strengthening the foundations of that experience can help societies sustain and succeed in challenging times. And in this episode of Skydeck, Justin and I talk about the five pillars of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at New York Public Library, he put... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
HBX course participants at ConneXt HBS Online course participants at ConneXt When Harvard Business School Online, formerly called HBX, was first conceptualized, the goal was to create a transformational educational experience with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
Sharique Hasan in a recent working paper. Their field research shows that the highest quality ideas are generated by people open to new experiences engaging with extroverted peers. In 2014, the researchers headed to New Delhi to study the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005 critique of the American school system, the authors apply... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take advantage of the informal networking she knew would take place... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Vietor received assistance and encouragement from several South African AMP alumni. "They helped arrange access to key GEAR players during my several weeks in the country," says Vietor, who describes his research experience as exciting,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
Jenrette (DLJ) when he applied to HBS. “I already had the analytical skills,” he recalls, “but the rigors of the case method raised the bar for me.” Dawson greatly admired his HBS corporate finance professor, the late Scott Mason, whom he credits with “teaching me how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
one that has little chance of getting better with the current theories in place,” Martin writes. Clearly, maximizing shareholder value has not worked and needs to be replaced. The problem as Martin sees it is that CEOs game the system to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, interest is growing... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
The future of retail won’t be brick and mortar or online, says Musab Balbale (MBA 2007). Instead, it will be a more inclusive combination of the two. Balbale, who spent several years of his career focused exclusively on online sales, is testing that View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
of VCs: We’re going to take a lot of bets early on, and most of those aren’t going to pan out, but the ones that do will be very successful. That was new. “Have VCs gotten too caught up in chasing the cheap experiment sectors? Who will... View Details
Keywords: April White