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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
integration doesn't guarantee that you can do everything well simultaneously. Focus, we've discovered, is critical. What does "focus" mean in terms of the health-care industry? It means more integrated facilities that center on providing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“One more door is shut in terms of how seniors can find the money to survive as they age.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, reacting to news that Wells Fargo has joined Bank of America in no longer offering reverse mortgages.... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
turning around a publication well into its second century or working to bring home American hostages, Bradley has the front-row seat he envisioned. But he is clearly more of an actor than a spectator. View Details
- 19 Aug 2019
- News
A New Purpose for the Corporation
Offering an update of their statement on “the purpose of a corporation”, the Business Roundtable, an influential group of some of America’s top chief executives, noted that “we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders”—and not just their shareholders.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
too late to reverse course (see article). Despite their dire warnings, Pisano and Shih haven’t given up on a second act for American manufacturing. And for good reason. The can-do mentality that has pulled the nation through tough times... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
and members of the American public. According to the authors, America retains and enjoys many strengths. However, various economic indicators show that the US economy has failed to deliver strong growth and shared prosperity for nearly... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Research Available on World Wide Web
history of American business? These are among the many topics currently being explored by HBS faculty and research assistants. Each year, more than 40 percent of the faculty's time and 30 percent of the School's total budget are devoted... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
became the first American to acquire commercial hydroelectric generating equipment from China. Today he is chairman and CEO of China Hydroelectric Corporation, the country’s largest owner of small hydroelectric projects. In fact, he may... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
one of its earliest international ventures, INCAE, the Central American business school, is an established and vibrant institution. As it approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, INCAE is preparing to launch a development... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- News
Prepare to Exit
Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) For the last seven years, Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) appeared to be well on his way along the professional path he’d set out for himself: He had risen to the level of vice president of a Fortune 150... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
the United States and examines how the state influenced railroads’ development on both continents. (Indeed, some researchers suggest that American railroads were sometimes inefficient, lumbering organizations whose scale was achieved... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
percent of Americans have no retirement savings, and that by 2030, some 72 million American retirees will be living below the poverty line. “The pandemic has shown just how unstable things can be, how... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1967 Born, Mexico City 1990 Receives Gold and Silver Medals, Rowing, Central American Games 1991 Earns BS, Economics, Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) 1995 Earns MBA... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
Illustration by Jim Frazier Women and ethnic minorities donate small amounts of money to political candidates in ways that have helped to democratize the American electoral process, suggests Associate Professor Vincent Pons. In his “Small... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
forces to lie about who they were,” he says. “I could not reconcile that difference.” By allowing gay people to serve openly, he invited a more diverse group of Americans to serve their country. The ripple effect can be seen in a greater... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Student turns family health crisis into online solution
opportunity,” she explains. Hoffman’s experiences inspired her to collaborate with classmate Arick Morton (MBA 2014), with whom she brainstormed in Harvard’s Innovation Lab (i-lab), which led to a concept for an entrepreneurial solution that would benefit View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
American bathrooms. Taught in the second-year course Leading Innovative Ventures, the case was coauthored with Masako Egawa (MBA ’86), former executive director of the Japan Research Center, and former research associate Jun Fukuyoshi... View Details