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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
says Anthony Sun (MBA 1979), a managing general partner at Venrock Associates in Menlo Park. “We can’t deploy $20 billion in quality investments. And we can’t generate $20 billion in exit values, either through IPOs or acquisitions. So the industry still is not in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
is to improve quality,” he said, “because better health is cheaper than bad health.” This new model, he noted, takes into account obstacles to care that are present in developing countries, such as poor transportation, and also harnesses... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
itself. Viana sensed that the workers, and brand, enjoyed broad-based public support. So he turned to crowdfunding, still a relatively unfamiliar concept in France, posting his cause on the site Bulb in Town and cross- promoting his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
setup, Hall explains, is much like a venture capital fund. "We basically seek the highest-performing charter school organizations, and give them philanthropic funds to help them build a long-term sustainable model," he says. CSGF has seen... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
human brain is defective," says Jensen, whose life's work has reached out beyond his research in economics, finance, and accounting to include psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and history. Jensen explains that upsetting information... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
accountability and people working together to solve problems. This is Chuck Callan, 1982. My first job-- oh, that's going back a ways. Well, I guess I was somewhat industrious as a kid and I used to rake leaves and stack wood, cut grass... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
drinks that would win the brand international recognition. Smith liked the café concept and the enthusiastic workers behind the counter; he took a substantial cut in pay to sign on as EVP and CFO. Today, the company operates approximately... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. What do you think about the issue of flexible work hours? There's a long way to go yet, but... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
industry. The plan’s design was guided by several key outcomes: saving jobs; protecting businesses with liquidity and fiscal incentives; building tech infrastructure to support work-from-home initiatives; providing basic food and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
be able to do computational prediction for creating a top 20 list of antisense oligos. With those, we can test them against his cell line. So as part of the biopsy, in phase one, we establish a cell line. What that is, is it’s taking Terry's cells and View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
again in the face of adversity. An Easy Introduction to Financial Accounting: A Self-Study Guide by V.G. Narayanan (V.G. Narayanan) This self-study guide explains concepts in simple language with illustrative examples, provides review... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the financial system are not understood here, then perhaps the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on the real-estate profession.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
system. Handspring’s Visor quickly distinguished itself from the competition through the addition of an expansion slot that allows users to add a variety of capabilities — digital camera, MP3 player, or cell phone, for example — to their View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
such as corporate governance, the relationship between values and leadership, corporate accountability and the challenges of financial disclosure, executive compensation, and the role of intermediaries in capital markets. Through our... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
elaborates Susan Rogers, who points to the evolution of the Internet and the ascendance of digital technology as key factors in the School's ability to move forward. "We can now embed digitized video directly into cases; that was literally impossible two years ago."... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
out of the air-conditioned tractor cab to do,” he says. Hand-worked chores account for a huge portion of labor on farms, says Andersen. Take, for example, table grapes, which are picked exclusively by hand: California farmers gross... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
overlooked question: If Japanese government policies and practices accounted for the nation's extraordinary competitiveness, then why wasn't Japan competitive in many of the industries where those policies had been prominently... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
moved from Morgan Stanley to HSBC, the team sizes went from a few hundred people to 12,000 and then to 35,000 when I became chair. Diversity and inclusivity were still relatively new concepts then, and it was great to have a part in that... View Details