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    F. Warren McFarlan

    Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry
    • June 2016 (Revised April 2018)
    • Case

    Boys & Girls Clubs of America: Driving Impact

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Lisa C. Cox
    With $1.8 billion in 2015 revenues, Boys & Girls Club of America had evolved over its 155-year-old history to occupy the lead position in the Youth Development space in the United States. Its new CEO Jim Clark had initiated yet another change process in 2015 to ensure... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Strategy; Planning Process; Transformative Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Growth Management
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    • 10 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

    think," says Robert S. Huckman, the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "In particular, when this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity." Instead, he... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
    • 25 Oct 2012
    • News

    Harvard's Pozen on Book 'Extreme Productivity'

    • 19 Jan 2012
    • News

    Pozen on U.S. Pension System

    • 29 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 29

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1471435 Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect Authors:Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton Abstract The confluence of three... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 27 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 27

    supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911406-PDF-ENG Social Strategy Exercise Mikołaj Jan PiskorskiHarvard Business School Exercise 710-472 This note outlines the process of designing a social strategy. Purchase this... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 06 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 6, 2007

    and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C chart, which rendered business fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C. J.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 12 Sep 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

    The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley discuss their new book by that... View Details
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
    • Article

    Chris Argyris (1923–2013)

    By: Amy C. Edmondson
    Chris Argyris, a pioneer in the fields of organization development, organizational learning, and action science, passed away on November 16, 2013. Argyris was born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 16, 1923, to Greek immigrant parents, and grew up in Irvington, New... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Personal Development and Career
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    • 12 Mar 2011
    • News

    Mortgage deduction under renewed scrutiny

    • 11 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

    Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace

      Ashish Nanda

      Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism
      • July–August 2014
      • Article

      The Crisis in Retirement Planning

      By: Robert C. Merton
      Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration... View Details
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      • 12 Feb 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 12

      views on the ethicality of a favored company, and were less influenced by motivated factors than when under separate evaluations. Book: The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win Authors:Simons, Robert... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 24 Apr 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: April 24

        PublicationsBarriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • September–October 2012
      • Article

      Toward a New Culture for Corporate Boards

      By: Robert C. Pozen
      A decade of business scandals and regulatory reforms find corporate America... facing fresh scandals and calls for more reforms. Robert Pozen, former chair of MFS Investment, noted director, and Harvard Business School faculty member, wonders if we have been fixing the... View Details
      Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Change; United States
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      • 30 Jun 2010
      • News

      The financial reform bill's hidden blunder

      • 09 Nov 2011
      • News

      Despite Critics, Mortgage Deduction Resists Change

      • 28 Jun 2010
      • HBS Case

      Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

      $1.9 million Pursuing Perfection grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to funding an improvement-science training program, the grant requires that the hospital undertake improvement projects. Hence, Kotagal develops... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health