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- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
wondering if he’d seemed a bit radical, even a little draconian. But now, of course, they’re getting it. David has been really calm and wonderfully informative, which helps to ease anxiety about it.” The conversation has gone far beyond hygiene and social distancing,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
working to eliminate systemic racism. “My dad and my brothers and I, we feel so strongly about the potential and power of this fund,” Josh Kraft, one of Robert Kraft’s four sons, told the Boston Globe. “It starts at the top with great... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
Omar Maniya (MBA 2016) Illustration by Gisela Goppel Omar Maniya (MBA 2016) Illustration by Gisela Goppel I was primed to become a doctor from an early age. Both of my parents are physicians who talked shop at the dinner table, so I grew up with an appreciation for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
have to be willing and able to tear down in order to build up. The old and proven and venerable must sometimes give way to the new and innovative and transformational. But we should also note that capitalism is far from perfect. While it’s superior to any other View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employers. While 93 percent of senior executives surveyed indicated satisfaction with the health-care insurance options they offer their employees, 46 percent said they would be receptive to a defined contribution system - often because... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
and a well-crafted plan to capitalize on it, iTrust slowly assembled a core management team during its inaugural year and, with relief, graduated from its free, but shabby, space to a modern office complex in Gurgaon, a booming suburb... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
Since its founding in 1908, HBS has viewed business as a powerful means for improving society. More than a century later, says Dean Srikant Datar, “the role we can play in tackling systemic challenges has become more important, whether in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
his story of turning an early-stage medical device company into a market leader with about $400 million in revenues. His plan included adding and integrating significant and complex acquisitions as well as empowering his employees to keep... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
regulatory bodies that are taken for granted in the West but are not available in emerging markets. "Companies can create value by developing these systems for themselves," notes Palepu. For example, large diversified companies doing... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
says with characteristic ease and candor. Those words are often used to describe Immelt, yet they belie the extreme complexity involved in leading a company that employs more than 300,000 people around the world, each working in areas... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Mills considers the complexities of a school administrator’s job, she says it’s not enough to be just a great manager or instructional leader. “You have to be able to marry the two because you can’t have one without the other and truly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
inequality. We are hoping to engage more and more companies and alumni in bringing the power of the market system to the inner city." Partnering for Success A small number of key business leaders can make a big difference by leveraging... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
course, affects investor confidence. Given that fragility, what rules and enforcement are appropriate? The capital markets are so complex and fast-moving that their integrity must in the end rely on self-regulation, rather than on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
structural changes in financial systems all over the world - it's easy to see why the ability to take financial securities and products, many of which never existed before, and analyze them both with respect to pricing and risk... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
trauma—on players' long-term health, a complex issue that could affect the league's growth. In other words, the league has to play both strong offense and stellar defense to achieve its $1 billion-a-year growth-rate goal. But fans can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
protection against viruses and Trojans, then on to data leak detection, and eventually the emergence of complex defense systems built to ward off multidimensional attacks. Today, he says, it’s about... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
moderator David Harris (MBA 1984), talked about addressing the complexities of hunger during COVID-19 with panelists Ajay Relan, founder of #HashtagLunchbag, an effort to feed the homeless and hungry through social media and self-directed... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of trained personnel, an... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Sunday evening in a Baker Lawn “pavilion” erected for the summit’s general sessions. Nearly everyone failed to understand how much the global financial system had changed in recent years, and how fragile it had become because of... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
members pursue innovative and practical research and course development, including through cross-disciplinary projects that bring new insights to complex issues, as exemplified by this recent work: “How Businesses Can Find ‘Hidden... View Details