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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
and economic priorities. Another factor both business and government leaders struggle with is the media’s tendency to provide the public with oversimplified or just plain inaccurate information about political, economic, or competitive factors in other countries. That... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
the brand. And I can defend this brand.” Jim Birch describes a reframing of how they thought about their interactions with their community, a broader perspective on who they saw as their buyer, and that complicated reckoning: What parts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
But Westley was just one horse in a stable full of horses, each with its own nutritional needs. Sometimes he got his vitamins, sometimes he didn’t. After talking to the barn’s owner, Minard began to appreciate how complicated it can be to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Wegovy as a treatment to reduce the risk of potentially deadly cardiovascular events. A study published in May found that Ozempic could significantly lower the risk of complications from chronic kidney disease. Then in July, researchers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
that would complement the students’ discussion of The Sweet Hereafter by novelist Russell Banks. In his story of a deadly school bus accident told from four points of view, Banks depicts the complications that arise when media and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
what would be best for each student. That in itself is a complicated operational challenge. On top of that, you have hiring demands and the need to create a culture in which teachers feel enabled to develop professionally. You also need... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
it across in a very limited amount of time—typically threeto five-minute learning segments that build on each other. That turned out to be a complicated challenge,” says Mayo, the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
environmental management. Reinhardt argues that in order to manage the environmental challenge successfully, firms should improve their cost management, reduce risk, create and capture value, and help develop new approaches to complicated... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
leading authority on case-method teaching, C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen (MBA 3/'43, DCS '53) was the Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus. He died on August 28 in Nashville, Tennessee, from complications following open-heart... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
they have to do is, they need to feel confident in themselves that they can take complicated problems and solve them. And they don't know what job they're going to have yet in their lives, but they know that whatever it is, they need to... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
more complex, even more complicated given the fact that there is often geographic distance between the employee themselves and their parent. And so when we think about the supports that are going to be important, it is going to look... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
distills complicated ideas down to their essence, and, as one colleague put it, possesses “a forward-looking vision.” Named a vice president in 1996, Weeks ran the company’s optical communications division and invested heavily in the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
necessarily the best way to organize an industry. This is a fixed-cost business, and it has some fourteen hundred players. Talent and technology get fragmented, and that hinders cumulative learning. And with discoveries happening in separate firms, a whole series of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, HBS professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding psychological and other... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
a talented administrator, died on Monday evening, Jan. 29, at a hospital in Melbourne, FL, near his home in Vero Beach. He was 86 years old. According to his daughter Laura U. Moon, Managing Director of Initiatives at Harvard Business School, the cause of death was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
adviser: Professor Tom Eisenmann. His best advice: Figure out how to explain a complicated business in a straightforward way. What’s in a name? “One aspect of our service is providing firewall-like security in the ‘cloud’ of the Internet.... View Details