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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
discussions that took place back in May at Emory University Hospital Midtown will affect more than the bottom line. It will impact the quality of care delivered to thousands of people. Midtown is a 511-bed facility serving over 150,000... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
Professor Joseph Fuller looked beyond dystopian forecasts to explore how ever-evolving technology has the potential to improve the quality of work lives, the earnings of most workers, and company productivity. Viewpoints exposed students... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
employees. During the Great Depression, Levi Strauss workers were kept on the payroll refurbishing their factory until business picked up. In 1982, when current CEO Bob Haas learned that employees were nervous about distributing AIDS View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
grown by 400,000 small-scale farmers owning fewer than ten acres of land. After much back and forth about the numbers in the case, the difficulties of working with geographically separated small farmers, the challenges of producing high View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
"Nothing I taught you about technology in management information systems has any relevance whatsoever to the world we're living in today," stated F. Warren McFarlan, the School's senior associate dean for External Relations, in his... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Turning Millennials into Leaders
create an NGO for kids around the world with HIV and AIDS [to improve] their quality of life, which led me to teaching back in Africa with students focusing on service and leadership. “I said, ‘I’ve been given this platform and this... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
the results of our ongoing investment in information technology. Innovative technologies are making possible new ways of learning -- including distance learning or e-learning -- that will extend and enhance our ability to pursue the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
upon educating leaders who would have a positive impact on the world. The article remains a classic and has since been republished several times. Zaleznik’s take on the subject of leadership was informed by his training and certification... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
Indian nonprofit devoted to supporting the millions of low-income women who toil in the country’s informal economy. Serving young people and working mothers, brother and sister each came to believe that intervening at the preschool and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
creating the best cost structure in the market. But the company wanted to compete primarily on quality not price. To that end, it struck exclusive deals with suppliers and marketing partners. Where they are today: The company continues to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
understanding of the importance of not just communication, but also convincing other people about your reasoning and seeing other people’s point. Every time I come back to HBS for seminars or classes, I am amazed by the quality of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
of service.” Kanter was followed by Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen, an adviser to several presidential administrations. Gergen cited polls that reveal Americans’ deepening discontent with the quality of leadership across... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
can adapt it to their situation,” she observes. “It’s a question of managing the projects and assembling strong groups of volunteers to achieve quality output for each project.” Twenty–seven volunteers staffed five projects for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
belief that to prepare managers well, we have to change. What we're doing in Asia has grown out of that belief. We need to create new intellectual capital to underpin our goals at HBS. Thus, we must deepen and extend the quantity and View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
in his footsteps. His life exemplified the finest qualities of leadership." Fitzhugh came to HBS after graduating with honors from Harvard College, where he was one of four African Americans in a class of one thousand. He excelled in his... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have taken a leave from their careers to explore personally enriching projects off the beaten track. For some busy executives, spending quality time with the family means... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
people will experience significant spine-related symptoms at some point. The ability to improve the quality of many lives makes spine surgery relevant. Contemporary spine surgery is also heavily technology dependent, which makes for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. As frequent targets of investment pitches, some of which turn out to be scams, several participants said they had already learned enough to be more astute in evaluating proposals that come their way. For their part, HBS... View Details