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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
do large-scale engineering without knowing the laws of physics. As a set of ideas, strategy sought to remedy all these deficiencies. And the effort was spearheaded by, of all people, management consultants — Bruce Henderson and his ilk... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Organizational Behavior Over the past four years, Sheila Lirio Marcelo's alarm has rung at 4:00 most mornings, rousing her to start her day as a student at both Harvard's Business and Law Schools, a part-time consultant in Cambridge, and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
corporate performance. Using archival sources, Kang examined data from all publicly held firms in the U.S. textile industry from 1983 to 1992. "I was able to look at an industry with different kinds of owners over a long period of time,"... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
ascendancy to the chairmanship of a powerful committee, the average firm in his state cuts back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to the trio's working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" The... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
moderator for the conversation with Elorza. “We chose him to speak because has had a very inspiring life and career, and because of his Latino heritage many of our members can relate to his experiences. On top of that, he’s a Harvard Law... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
a suitcase, and headed back to work. A pro bono study by several of the city's top consulting firms has estimated that the damage to New York City totals $83 billion. That figure may be low, some observers say, and of course it cannot... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
"How about 'No new taxes after these new taxes'?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com As Congress starts the next round of debt ceiling negotiations, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are advocating tax relief for foreign... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Late last summer Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) got a call from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Hessan's an entrepreneur and executive. And she previously founded the market research View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
only a recent phenomenon. For most of American history, companies in the domestic economy either were protected by tariff laws or were so much stronger than non-U.S. firms that they could act pretty much as... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is founder and CEO of the financial data firm Bloomberg LP, the former mayor of New York City, and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
after graduating from HBS. "He struck a chord with me because of the way he could identify and analyze complex problems, then develop implementation plans to solve them." In 1960, Livingston and Fox founded Management Systems Corporation, a consulting View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
important to understand that they all use the same process to launder their money. And you believe that some U.S. firms are complicit in that process? When it comes to large deposits from overseas, far too often American banks assume a... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
intimate and immediate,” she said, noting that 1871 is home to 500 early-stage tech startups. “We’re a place to bring together all of the stakeholders—venture capital, universities, and corporate partners,” she said. Mark Tebbe, who founded the technology consulting... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information services. He is also exploring how firms use information technology to achieve competitive advantage through further refinement of his "strategic grid" framework. MIS faculty have made technology an integral part of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Assets: Matchup
firm perspective. These matchboxes, featuring actual Time magazine covers of Chinese leaders—from Chiang Kai-shek to Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping—offer a thumbnail sketch of the country’s history in the 20th century. A gift from a former... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
and others may not realize they’re crossing it. But in this case, if you look at some of the facts revealed in the trial, SBF said that the laws and rules didn’t apply to him. There were six opportunities for him to give back the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
Seizing opportunities as they come
Being open to possibilities has given Marne Levine (MBA 2005) the chance to work for the president of Harvard, in the Obama administration, and as Facebook’s VP of global public policy. (Published January 2015) View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Virginia L. Davies (115th AMP) is a vice president at Goldman Sachs. She is a former vice president at the Bank of Montreal and previously worked for the Canadian Department of Justice. A native of Toronto, Davies attended Trinity College and earned an LLB from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
stem-cell R&D will almost certainly fade,” explains HBS professor Debora Spar, “because determined would-be buyers and sellers will eventually constitute a market of their own, either by circumventing the law or by pushing the state to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons