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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
HBS Contributors Report
Support from alumni and friends accounted for almost one-quarter of the School’s revenue in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011, according to the HBS Contributors Report, which was mailed to some 12,000 donors in November. All told,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also considered how decision-making, structure, and View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of accounting rules and regulations. What’s more,... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 25 Apr 2018
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success
a 2016 report on corporate diversity, black men and women account for only 4.7 percent of executive team members in the Fortune 100, although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population. And only 1 percent—that’s five... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Faculty Books for December 2016
Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams by V.G. Narayanan (Self-published) This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare for quizzes and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (with Christopher Cerf), whose title is self-explanatory; and, in 2005, A Matter of Opinion, an account of Navasky’s life and times in publishing and beyond. Going forward, Navasky sees a secure... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
1991 to 1994, he served as the first senior associate dean, director of financial and information systems, at HBS. He has coauthored five books and written nearly two hundred cases and articles. The Managerial Implications of Deregulation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library: From step counting to remote patient monitoring, Rock Health reports on the emerging world of wearable biosensors. Curious to see where the broader consumer wearables market is headed? Check out growth forecasts through Statista... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
gave of those earnings at then record levels to establish the MBA Class of 1949 Professorship of Business Administration. Stressing that the class provides solid role models for today’s leaders, Callahan gives detailed accounts of eight... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
Program income. And an “extraordinary” jump in unrestricted giving accounted for $5 million in new revenue. In his summary statement, Melnick noted that “unrestricted current gifts are the School’s major source of funds for strategic... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Identifying why the path to the top for women and racial minorities remains elusive
While diversity in hiring has increased markedly among professional service organizations, the changes are not reflected at the senior-most levels. For example, in US law firms, women comprise 46 percent of associates but only 19 percent of partners, and racial... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a mathematical method to understand consumer behavior in a digital world
influence by controlling for those “birds-of-a-feather” tendencies. The findings show that social influence accounts for more than 25 percent of all mobile app adoptions. The research also highlights an important risk: If homophily is not... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
any yard lines or boundary lines. For some of the children, Swearengin says, it was their first opportunity to play on a team and to experience a need to be accountable to their peers. Some were also lucky enough to take their first trips... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
experts have developed over the past 25 years. Jensen and his contributing authors reconceptualize organizations as equilibrium systems that exist in a larger system of markets - such as financial, product, labor, and materials markets. Observing that the View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
Singleton (MBA ’88). The trio look at what can be learned by stepping back and taking a longer term view of how some of the greatest business leaders of the last century built successful careers. The book draws on information from the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
individual’s creditworthiness, founding the Mercantile Agency after his own silk importing business failed in the wake of the collapse. Subscribers paid a fee to gain access to that report on Henrietta Bruckman and thousands of others; the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
income and unrestricted current-use gifts accounted for 24 percent of total revenue, MBA tuition and fees 18 percent, and housing rentals 3 percent. The School ended the year with 219 full-time faculty and 1,146 full-time administrative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
carried out, not for time they spent gathering information and thinking about patient diagnosis. Diagnostic tests account for only 3 percent of health-care spending, but drive 70 percent of all medical... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reflections on the “Artistry” of Teaching
are taken from various written accounts of Christensen’s observations about teaching. Truly effective classroom teaching is artistry, and I believe those artistic skills and techniques can be taught and learned. >>>> To me, the very first... View Details