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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
A Fine Collection
The Williamses: a place in the art world. Dave Williams (MBA '61) and his wife, Reba White Williams (MBA '70), were Wall Street executives when they married in 1975. To ensure that their friends would not all be drawn from their work... View Details
- Profile
Amy Sennett
especially for the poorest of the poor at the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid.” As vice chair of the Club’s Microfinance and Social Investment Group, she “looks at ways global capital can flow to places where it can have View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research and course development focusing on the intersection of strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
We will make you an effective environmental advocate in ten minutes a month or less,” says Ullman. He explains that participation can be as simple as clicking “yes” in response to an e-mail requesting use of the member’s name in support... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
the number is, if you look at your budget, where are the areas where there's a little bit of room. And it may be that, yes, you're going to have to make some sacrifices, but are there places where, you know,... View Details
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Hayling Price
you look at neighborhoods of persistent poverty, you see failures, not just of policy, but of markets. To lead the kind of change I see, I needed a different set of skills. To speak truth to power, I need to use the language of markets to promote opportunity."... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
recently directed his support to the HBS Fund in support of program innovation. “The School’s consistent focus on making leadership the fundamental tenet of the curriculum sets it apart,” he observes. “It’s critical to View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
there are places in the world now where it makes sense to shut down a perfectly fine fossil plant and replace it with a solar farm because you save money on the fuel itself. That said, a decarbonizing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) For years, I dreamed of crossing America by bicycle for the physical and spiritual challenge, as well as the opportunity to meet people and learn more about... View Details
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Andrea Nadosy
planted seeds – for entrepreneurship.” Nine months before entering HBS, those seeds already began to bear fruit in Meadowmere Lane, an online retailer of exquisite laptop bags. But as a business-owner in an institution renowned for management, would she feel out of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
can fill,” she advises, “but make sure that the organization will value your contributions. Read the directors’ bios and talk with people who know them. Is it a rubber-stamp board, or do members speak their minds? Is this a View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
The Bookshelf Travel maven Zhang Mei (MBA 1996), founder of WildChina, on her new travelogue (and recipe collection) and two other literary escapes for the armchair adventurer NEW Travels Through Dali with a Leg of Ham by Zhang Mei “People always want to know how I get... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
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Kenny Salas
not a good fit for me. It takes too much time to get approvals and execute your plans—to see the fruits of your labor." The second factor came from a place closer to home—literally. Kenny's twin brother, Sean, who is also attending... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Oliver Bladek
however, HBS has made me consider opportunities that I previously shunned. While I'm still keenly interested in general management (trying to get P+L and people responsibility sooner rather than later), I now think that a start-up/entrepreneurial venture might be a... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)
didactic message, makes The Usurer’s Grip a period piece. But its plot and the plight of its protagonists are eerily modern. Nearly one hundred years ago, unwary borrowing from unscrupulous lenders had the power to drive a family to the... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
Jake Cusack (MBA 2012) is cofounder of CrossBoundary, an investment firm that helps companies explore business opportunities in frontier and developing markets. In this interview, he explains how he and his partners focus their efforts on locations that View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
commercial and scientific promise, sustaining legislation has to be put in place to allow the market to achieve its potential,” Spar commented. “The best technology in the world won’t help you if it’s illegal to use it.” Another... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
digitization. Today, natural resources and waste are no longer negligible concerns but urgent issues every business leader must understand. How do we celebrate what makes capitalism so amazing—its power as a prosperity-creating... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
of balance when it is placed in the context of their personal values, interests, and stage of life." There were a few dissenters to these views. Tom Patterson characterized these in opining that "Most people in an organization... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett