American Well - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

Edited by Jennifer Gillespie FOUR FOUNDERS From left: Clifford Darden, Lillian Lincoln Lambert, Theodore Lewis, and Leroy Willis (photos courtesy of HBS Archives) Just over 50 years ago, at the end of a summer that saw race riots across the United States as View Details

22 Mar 2022
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Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

as well as door prizes and a surprise video greeting from HBS Dean Srikant Datar. “We’ve been here since 1947, which is pretty amazing,” says the club’s president, Megan Stidman (MBA 1999). “It was a lot of fun to celebrate being here for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2010
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Alumni Books

The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders by Max Anderson (MPA/MBA ’09) and Peter Escher (MBA ’09) (Portfolio) The MBA Oath has become a worldwide movement for a new generation of leaders who care about society as well... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)

Things may not have looked this bleak for African Americans in a long time, but at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead in eastern Long Island, which serves many of the area's black families -- including Daniels's own -- you'd never know... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

27 Sep 2021
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Sewn with Love

supply chain. The gowns were produced by a tight circle of manufacturers that had begun to shut down as a result of COVID-19. “The system works very well when the demand is stable,” notes Hanazawa. It was clear, however, that the supply... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 1999
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African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line

entrepreneurial finance professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School. In view of this year's conference theme, HBSAAAA president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74) notes that Chicago was chosen "in part because of its history as a primary destination for African View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

25 Aug 2022
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Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work

Indian workers, they are about a third of the wage that American workers get for exactly the same jobs. What seems to be happening is that employers are setting the wage in a way that takes into account the conditions remote workers are... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier this year, gatherings sponsored by the African View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

20 May 2020
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Keeping Families Connected

When millions of Americans started social distancing due to the spread of coronavirus, Caribu co-founder and CEO Maxeme Tuchman (MBA/MPP 2012) didn’t hesitate to lift the paywall on her company’s interactive video-calling platform, which... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

the official government of a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit

Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point

At the other end of the supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance between these Kenyan farmers and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Oct 2019
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Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care

Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Compare Canadian and US Health Care Systems In partnership with the Cleveland Clinic Canada, the HBS Club of Toronto hosted 40 alumni on September 12 for a lively panel discussion exploring the future of health care in Canada, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2018
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Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)

story of a Chinese American family whose unpredictable father, Stanley, learns he has pancreatic cancer. As his health declines, the family contends with the messy questions of inheritance, cultural expectations, and career ambition. You... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

sharing upward mobility with all African Americans was the theme of the 26th annual HBS African-American Student Union (AASU) Career/Alumni Conference, "The Next Step: Revitalizing Our Community," held January 22-25. Taking place at HBS... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

occupations, such as computer support specialists, insurance underwriters, and customer service representatives. Fuller also contends that American companies should consider learning from their European counterparts, which provide... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Feb 1998
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Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser

commentator; a current board member of four marketing-related corporations; formerly an editor and later board chairman of the Harvard Business Review; and former executive director of the Marketing Science Institute. He was elected a fellow of the View Details