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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
resulted in 96,402 potentially preventable deaths from 2006 to 2008. Health care will change, because it must. Designing that transition with minimum threat and maximum benefit for patients is a delicate management challenge that will... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
several areas. Working with a few retailers as a young principal at the firm in the early 1980s, she realized that retailing, which represents one-third of the American economy, could benefit from McKinsey's management expertise. "The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
When it came to his wise counsel and support, however, no institution likely benefited more than Harvard University, which awarded Gordon an honorary doctorate in 1977. At HBS, just one of the Harvard schools he helped, Gordon served on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Facilitating private-sector progress while benefiting the taxpayers "Governments need to think more like partners, not order-givers," said Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki. "Government can play an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
An effective job search needs to be enormously disciplined, says Neil S. MacKenna (MBA 1949). Over the last two decades, hundreds of HBS alumni have benefited from MacKenna’s experience as an outplacement professional and the founder of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
about ways that tech companies can develop products and services that both benefit the public and align with their business model,” he observes. Tsai says courses such as Public Entrepreneurship, taught by Mitchell Weiss, professor of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
do you think? How do you feel?” We can also use it to conduct inexpensive and quick market research. And social media applications offer a treasure trove of information about consumer behavior. What other benefits come from using social... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
also chairs the advisory board of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. “As alumni, we need to give students the benefit of our judgment so that they aren’t always reinventing the wheel.” That meeting Belo-Osagie had with Faust two years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
2004) While The Reflective Leader is a unique program tailored to its target audience, we are now piloting a second wave of offerings––existing Executive Education programs––for defined subsets of our alumni community. Since one of the hypotheses we’re testing is... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 29 Nov 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
School and the value of paying back and paying forward the benefits you received here. You become part of a virtuous circle of alumni engagement. Another way to contribute work and wisdom is to think about how your experiences as an... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
retirement as chair of the SEI Advisory Board last January, Whitehead, who will stay on as chair emeritus, noted, “I am very proud of what the School has accomplished with the Social Enterprise Initiative. The progress we have made, and the extent to which the program... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
people wouldn’t think can be done” and also know how to do that in an economically scalable way so that it can benefit the entire community. What is the single most important issue for the new mayor to address in Baltimore? The most... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
research activities in the region," Ryan says. "We also talked to local business leaders about what we will be doing there and outlined the benefits of being featured in a case study." (A complete report on the conference will appear in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Professor of Business Administration, annually compiles the best posts from blogs on technology start-up management for the benefit of his students. This book makes his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
benefited from the new center. “Willis has been instrumental in helping me enhance the dynamics of the classroom,” says Jin. “He’s taught me how to more effectively engage the students. There are now more flows of information among the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
YOUNGER FACES IN STUDY GROUPS: The typical MBA student has five years of job experience; the new program welcomes those with two. HBS has unveiled a groundbreaking deferred-admission program for outstanding college seniors who want an MBA but who would View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
spending that cash, the economy could benefit from a significant stimulus that, unlike stimulus measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
model." “The markets for everything from cars to books to food benefit from customers who are informed about the price and quality of products before making their purchases. While such consumerism has been slow to make its way into the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
investment. Harvard has the power to be a catalyst for change.” When thinking about his own philanthropy, Delle stresses the people who benefit from his support. “When you make a gift, you are transforming lives,” he says, noting that his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
lot of hard work, it gradually turned into a department store," Barron explains. "He treated people fairly and was well-respected. I think I gained a more positive view of business than others in my generation because I saw how a small business could View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick