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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Pittsburgh’s business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts of the global economy. For HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
"For several years, the cover of one conglomerate's annual report actually bore the legend '2+2=5' in large type under the company's name. They wanted you to believe that the firm's value was greater than the sum of its parts, that a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
What’s usual today dates back nearly fifty years to a 1959 Ford Foundation report that sparked a revolution in American business education. The report characterized MBA programs as “vocational” in content... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
year as a research-based platform to address topics of worldwide import to business, BiGS integrates and amplifies work currently underway at HBS and sparks new avenues of inquiry. In the case of climate change, that means exploring ways... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
Workforce Transformation program. Then there are the many published reports that can be broadly shared and disseminated. JF: One publication getting significant traction that I’m excited about is The Caring Company, a first-of-its-kind... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
If the internet was this poor at a private K–8 school in the heart of Silicon Valley, Marwell wondered, what was it like at other schools across the United States? Not much better, he soon found out. One Federal Communications Commission survey released at the time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
within the confines society imposed. Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies by Ronnie Lessem (MBA 1968) (Routledge) The BRIC countries are heralded for their double-digit economic growth rates, and yet, significant... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
your mouth unless you're absolutely sure of what you're talking about," she explains. Patricia K. Light, director of MBA Program Support Services, notes that in the United Kingdom and European cultures, "class participation is not an View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
of the French pointillist painter, and it’s easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
States, I was offered the job of general manager of the Italian marketing operation based in Rome, with responsibility to integrate it with a newly acquired manufacturing company outside Florence. I insisted that I would need to have both... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional lives, with 30 percent of the Pew... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Corps leaders in 1992 to report what had happened to her. But senior leaders, some of whom were her father’s friends, ultimately allowed Culver to stay on in a senior role at the organization until his death in 2005, when he was... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
living the philosophy she laid out in her 1988 Bulletin interview: "The happier people are those who have succeeded in integrating the things they want to do, rather than carving their lives into pieces." She says of her current... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
socialite Dina Merrill, who sat on the board for eighteen years and served on the compensation committee that approved CEO Richard Fuld’s $484 million in salary, stock options, and bonuses from 2000 to 2007. John Helyar, coauthor of Barbarians at the Gate and now a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
an integral part of Silicon Valley culture, we first need to understand how Silicon Valley came to be. Nancy Koehn: My name is Nancy Koehn. I'm a historian at the Harvard Business School where I hold the James E. Robison Chair of Business... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
optimism about the future of McDonald’s that was hard to find two years ago. In January 2015, the company released its worst earnings report in 30 years, with revenue at its more than 36,000 global locations falling by 7 percent from the... View Details