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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure Increased corporate financial reporting may benefit many parties but not necessarily the companies themselves. New research by Assistant Professor Romana Autrey and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
new water systems or repair deteriorating ones, there is money in water. Already a big business attracting major corporate players such as General Electric, Siemens, ITT, Suez, and Tyco, water is a $400 billion global industry. While just... View Details
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
Professors Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval, and Christopher Malloy discovered to their surprise that increased federal spending causes local companies to lose sales and cut back on research, payroll, and other expenses. Indeed, reports HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
producer (sex, lies, and videotape), and is a prolific author. Founder and chairman of the San Francisco–based Institute for Large Scale Innovation, he advises corporations and governments on innovation, organizational transformation, and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development
corporate anti-corruption efforts on business performance, determining that high anti-corruption efforts pay off. Healy compares the world’s largest companies to each other on self-reported attempts to combat corruption (with collaborator... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
Barry Johnson (MBA ’89) has over 20 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and corporate executive with media giants such as the Walt Disney Company, Bertelsmann, and Sony Music Corporation. With expertise in public-private... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School. "We maintained that conservation could actually contribute to domestic economic growth - with less risk from the disturbances in the international oil markets," he says.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
viewed a compelling video featuring members of the HBS community articulating what the School has meant to them. The School’s first capital campaign concluded on December 31, 2005, substantially exceeding its $500 million goal. (A final tally will be View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
address the disproportionally male makeup of corporate boards. The code allows boards to implement their own gender-diversity policies and explicitly identifies merit as a consideration. Companies are not required to follow the code, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
When Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a new licensing deal for Microsoft software that makes Apple’s iPhone more attractive to businesspeople, venture capitalist John Doerr (MBA ’76) of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers was also on hand, the New York Times View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
A Tough Assignment
O’neill: An educational expedition. Courtesy Shackleton Schools As a corporate lawyer living in Greenwich, Connecticut, Luke O’Neill (MBA ’95) was on a well-defined path of success. But something about his life didn’t sit right. He quit... View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
David Thompson President and CEO, Orbital ATK (courtesy Orbital ATK) David Thompson President and CEO, Orbital ATK (courtesy Orbital ATK) Orbital ATK—which was founded in 1982 by three HBS classmates—was sold this week to defense contractor Northrop Grumman for a View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Dhivya Suryadevara Named GM’s Next CFO
Photo courtesy of GM Photo courtesy of GM The CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, recently announced that Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) will be named CFO. Fortune reported that as vice president of corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and large the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
students straight from undergraduate programs and promoting internally without requiring an MBA. The global economic crisis only added to the chorus of concerns about the MBA degree. The Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
the most turbulent periods in the history of corporate America. Bill Donaldson’s glittering résumé reflects the career of a man who has spent more than 45 years at the highest levels of business, government, and academia. Consider some of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
reports that in that sector, "the M&A; market is not well-developed, although demand is growing. The transactions that do occur are conducted for strategic rather than corporate control reasons. "Emerging... View Details
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- 01 Feb 2000
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HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
Social and Environmental Stewardship, the report praised HBS as a leader in fostering social awareness, incorporating social concerns into coursework and projects, and supporting student activities and faculty research that influence both... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
Citigroup appear to be. One survey of human resource directors of large corporations indicated that 60 percent lacked CEO succession planning. This situation is hardly optimal — not when global competition and technical change, in the... View Details