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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Allawi Illustration by Jack Unruh After spending much of his adult life in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, London-based businessman Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) couldn’t say no to an old friend who called to offer him a Cabinet-level position — minister of trade... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
Less than 20 percent of new businesses last five years. Despite those daunting odds, three MBAs from the Class of 1998 are among the elite who succeeded, and their stories make compelling reading in a new book. Former Washington Post reporter Bill Murphy Jr. tried his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an industrial designer who worked for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
As we wrapped up our writing assignments for this issue, I was struck by how many stories dealt with the same topic: entrepreneurship. The articles themselves aren’t big, but what they say about HBS is. The heady dream of starting and running a business is alive and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
inefficient automobile sector, and we tried to prop it up through the 1970s with tons of money. In the end, it failed, and what’s left of car manufacturing in Britain is almost entirely foreign-owned. — Roger View Details
- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
We’ve all read stories about those rare individuals who saw the financial crisis coming and profited handsomely from their contrarian insights. Add to that list of contrarians hedge fund manager Bill Ackman (MBA ’92), whose six-year crusade to expose the financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
asks: Is management a profession? His answer may surprise you. The excerpts we present provide a sampling of his key findings. No doubt they will help set the agenda for the faculty colloquia on business education scheduled for next spring. Consider this issue just the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
list exists. But several efforts to compile such a list are under way, a development Nelson and Phillips eagerly await. As circulation and ad revenue continue to grow, the publishing duo expect to achieve a milestone this year: They’ll finally take home a salary. —... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
Restoring American Competitiveness, which lays out their views in detail. Despite their dire analysis, Pisano and Shih remain cautiously optimistic that the United States can regain its competitive footing. Roger Thompson: When it comes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Issue Focus: Leadership Illustration by Craig Frazier What HBS Learned from West Point The Evolving Case Method Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Making the Leadership Case Related Faculty Research What Top Scholars Say about Leadership Why Leaders Lose Their... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
and his priorities for the coming years. The following is an edited version of his remarks. Roger Thompson: You have deep and long-standing connections to HBS, both as a student and as a faculty member. Were there any surprises once you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
the phone’s camera at the graphic and snap an image. The decoder will translate the bar code and redirect you to the target Web site. We’ve placed four mobile bar codes in this issue. To experiment, start with this one. It will take you to a video of Professor Lawrence... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare system is dysfunctional, a Rube... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
story. Mike Cassidy (MBA ’91) alone has four. Since graduating, he has launched and sold four tech companies, earning him the sobriquet “Start-Up King of Silicon Valley” (see article). His advice to would-be entrepreneurs: “Don’t hesitate to jump in.” Given this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business. Anything available? When you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar largesse for all such... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the future of the degree it... View Details