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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big,... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
girlfriends said that girlfriend April has inherited a business and she’s never worked in it. She is trying to decide what to do. And then Sharon, Bob’s wife, she spoke up and said, Bob is retired, he’ll help her. BR: And I heard about it... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
and unambiguous research, he makes clear the devastating consequences of growing up poor: living in poverty, even temporarily, is detrimental to cognitive abilities, emotional control, and the overall health of children. The cost to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
packages; bloated product lines and overcapacity; and, of course, globalization. For HBS professor Stefan Thomke, who grew up in a Mercedes-Benz company town near Stuttgart, Germany, it comes down to the basics. “Rather than competing on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
to live up to them, one that thoughtfully positions itself within the greater landscape of business, government, and society at large. Doesn’t that motivate employees to be at their best? Companies face choices, and their View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
nonprofit counterparts. “One of the roles we have to play is getting people to see the humanity of the other,” Crespin observes. In the honey-bee world, Crespin came up with the idea of having beekeepers, farmers, crop experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
of mine, Carl Kester. He takes some offense when I beat up on it. Sorry, Carl!” Sahlman’s perspective was influenced by his father, a successful manager who had dealt with similar kinds of resource... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S. private equity at executive search... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through wireless public pay phones at... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
introduction in the early ’90s of low-fat cookies and other healthier snack foods under the SnackWell’s brand for Nabisco. In the first year, SnackWell’s grew to a $400 million business. Store managers had such a difficult time keeping... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
offer. Shaich will remain as CEO of the operation. “Most people [here], they’ve been pushed to think in ways they’ve never been pushed to think about before,” Shaich told the Globe. Though those lessons add up to good View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Asian management practices, using Acer as a case study. Stan Shih, who serves on the HBS Asia Advisory Committee, stepped up to share his thinking on a major corporate reengineering he is currently... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
their pistols and muskets and attack only with swords and bayonets. Hamilton's troops silently crept up on the British, then surged into the trenches and began screaming like madmen. After ten or fifteen minutes of vicious hand-to-hand... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Web site, Eccles hailed the IIRC’s formation. The Financial Times covered the story in its August 3 edition. But the American press all but ignored the event. A database search of major newspapers and magazines turns up a single mention —... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business news. And I’m no stranger to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
phone bills at home. Major organizations will be essentially ready. I do expect a period of transition and inconvenience such as we are now experiencing at times with credit cards. And government agencies must work to catch up if they are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
THAT'S A WINNER: The DeWitts enjoy the home field advantage at the new Busch Stadium, which offers views of downtown St. Louis and the city's trademark Gateway Arch. From his office in the new Busch Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals Managing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Spaces: Convening Power
1982). Seth is president and CEO of the Baupost Group, a Boston-based investment management firm. Beth is president of the Klarman Family Foundation. “We hope that Klarman Hall will be a world-class addition to a world-class institution,”... View Details