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- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
CNET Networks, Bonnie was a managing director at Tiger Management, a New York-based investment firm. Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999), Symbol Capital Mr. Burgstone is Managing Director of Symbol Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, where he leads the firm's View Details
- Web
Our Curriculum - Business History
government in the country’s economy are investigated as well. In addition, the course examines the relation between capital market innovation and economic development and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
To your health: Nazemi, Schlosser, and Kushner roll out their consumer-friendly online insurance company. For aspiring entrepreneurs searching for a sexy start-up idea, it may not seem a very glamorous... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
regulate the industry. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52032 Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
education inadequate, ill-organised, arbitrary and useless,” he wrote in the book’s opening pages. “...[I]t pained me that this useful and necessary activity [trade] had fallen... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
group behavior or evolutionary processes and can uniquely reveal non-linear dynamics and emergence—the process whereby local interactions aggregate into often surprising collective phenomena, such as spatial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
learned that its 20 percent interest rate was higher than average and that the card didn’t provide travel insurance. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/prRmhGSXiSbMwOabP4CL][/div] After qualified customers View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
If the driver has an accident during this between-ride time, both the TNC and the driver’s personal insurance carrier would typically deny the claim. “In fact,” Edelman writes,... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (MBA 1993) + More Info – Less Info Over the last decade, firms have begun to recognize the power of gender diversity and have worked to actively hire View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
up poor in a single-parent home in Brooklyn during the Great Depression, such success could not have seemed within reach. After graduating from a vocational high school, Dunn went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1947, he joined the Marine Corps Reserves View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into the marketplace, including creation of federal deposit insurance, securities regulation, banking supervision, and the separation of commercial and investment banking under the Glass-Steagall Act. As... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of reducing emissions 50 percent by 2030.... View Details
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Harvard Business School
and Connecticut General Insurance Corporation, where Jones became the first African American board member. Otis Gates III MBA 1963 Otis Gates grew up in Roxbury and graduated... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
behavior of others. In his book Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Platform, a cloud-based infrastructure that supports the secure collection of information related to health and lifestyle, allowing hospitals and care providers to integrate... View Details
- September 2007 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Norway Sells Wal-Mart
By: Robert C. Pozen and Aldo Sesia
In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest its position in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. after an investigation by the Fund's Ethics Council. According to a spokesperson of Norway's Finance Ministry, "The recommendation to exclude Wal-Mart cites serious and... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Ethics; Insurance; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Government and Politics; Rights; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Power and Influence; Retail Industry; Norway
Pozen, Robert C., and Aldo Sesia. "Norway Sells Wal-Mart." Harvard Business School Case 308-019, September 2007. (Revised April 2009.)
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
Today, Feagler has not only regained his ability to walk, but also stays active sea kayaking and mono-skiing. The accident that changed the course of his life has left him with a new focus. “I previously had... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
insurance reform, payment reform, and reform of our delivery system. For me, these are three separate but related conversations, clearly not independent of each other. Most of... View Details