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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were weathering the worst financial crisis of my lifetime,” says Mills, now... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
an expert in negotiation, Robinson will lead a panel that will address the role that improving labor relations will play in the country's recovery and future growth. "The country has inherited a legacy with... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 04 Nov 2021
- News
Using Design Thinking to Improve Worker Safety in Manufacturing
Keywords: Design thinking
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
Your research examines industries that once seemed doomed but have experienced a comeback. How does this happen? I did my dissertation work on the Swiss watch industry, and I looked at what it takes for a technology to reemerge. For over two centuries, Swiss mechanical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
and Japanese competitors. The American carmakers seem less passionate about their product, and relations between the different organizational functions seem more constrained, as does the product-design process.” Flexible and Nimble HBS... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
6 Strategies to Boost Retention Through the Great Resignation
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth
HBS closed the books on fiscal 2005 with more revenue and lower expenses than expected. Total revenues reached a new high of $331 million, $9 million more than forecast, and operating expenses totaled $307 million, $5 million less than forecast. A robust global economy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
risks associated with outsourcing; and using “shadow pricing” to compare public- and private-sector costs for services. Us + Them: Tapping the Positive Power of Difference by Todd L. Pittinsky (PhDOB 2001) (Harvard Business Review Press) The theory and practice of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years, which won the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Book on International Relations in 1998. Inspired by South Africa's unfolding democracy and dismayed by America's “sclerotic and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and Service Management units.... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
When the RFP for Amazon’s HQ2 arrived in September 2017, Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) had been on the job as president and chief executive officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) for only eight months. The commonwealth was not known for the generous... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
congressional committees and the general power structure in Washington," Harmon says. "Enan's ability to relate to people and explain opportunities in Egypt to members of Congress who hadn't spent much—if any—time there, was exactly what... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
addressing many of the complex issues related to business and the economy. One of Dean Nohria’s core aspirations is for the School to step up and be more engaged in policy and influencing behavior in the business community. This project... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
and General Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation Related Links Business at the Summit View videos of Business Summit keynote addresses and panel discussions here View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
companies to expense (count as a cost) the value of employee stock option grants beginning the following year. 2006 The SEC increases pay disclosure requirements in an attempt to increase transparency. Related Links Over the Top A Student... View Details