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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
other schools accepted only men. "One of the men used a mild bit of profanity, then looked at me and said, 'Oh, I'm sorry.' The professor very wisely said, 'Mrs. Wilkinson has worked at IBM. She's heard all those words before.' " Wilkinson thought she might like to go... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
of African American artists,” she says. Over time, Joyner’s collecting has evolved to include pieces by mid-career American artists such as Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, and Lorna Simpson. More recently, she has sought out View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Deepak Malhotra Thinking outside the maze Malhotra Photographs by Webb Chappell Negotiations expert Professor Deepak Malhotra is the author of the recent international bestseller I Moved Your Cheese: For Those... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed, over the last 25 years, the accounting rate of return on inbound FDI to the United States has averaged... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
to them wherever they are in the world," Rogers notes. Another advantage is that alumni will no longer be limited in their choice of Internet access providers. "Alumni who already have accounts with AOL may choose to keep them, but they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
language of business and comprises three 30-hour courses: Business Analytics (created by Jan Hammond), Financial Accounting (by V.G. Narayanan), and Economics for Managers (by Anand). For its inaugural program this June, CORe will target... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
usually expressed as reparations for slavery,” he says. “That’s because it also includes an accounting for the transfer of income and wealth from African Americans to whites, as a class, that took place during Jim Crow segregation, from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
platters in counts of 30 each. “But for me to have 100 original pieces to offer a catering company, that’s a relatively big investment for a small and young business,” she says. Rentals accounted for a third of Clay’s revenue in the first... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
decades and accounts for roughly 5 percent of domestic US oil production. However, it's not particularly environmentally friendly: EOR companies mostly tap naturally occurring fields of CO2, transport the gas to the mature oil fields, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Ejeh. Instead, he grabs his phone, pulls up the Lidya banking app, applies for the cash cushion he needs, and—a day or so later—gets the money in his account and goes about the business of expansion. Since he began borrowing with Lidya in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
though many kinds of cyber intrusions are not required to be reported or made public, known U.S. assaults are up nearly 300 percent since 2001, when over 52,000 cyber incidents were recorded. In that year, by some estimates, hacking View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
truth, and you need to trust the people, trust the process," she says. As the network took shape, members began holding each other accountable for achieving high standards of performance and for using their leadership to bring about... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
government officials are transparent. “Public officials have got to be accountable to taxpayers when it comes to budget decisions, contracts,” Cognetti continued. “Officials must be able to show their work. That’s what we all learned in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
some new sign of the apparent retreat of government in the face of the relentless power of free market forces. Yet, in reality, contends HBS associate professor Willis Emmons, international trends in deregulation and privatization do not... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
impacted the most vulnerable, especially children, and how to deliver the most effective aid. The event will feature firsthand accounts from HBS and Harvard community, with a focus on emergency survival, safety, health/medicine, shelter,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA '89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has become the industry leader in a new business spawned by the Internet -- ad serving. The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about the relationships you foster within an organization. At the end of the case, the individual had not fostered his internal relationships well (not enough blue lines) and was fired from his job. At the time, I thought this was... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
early and regularly. According to a recent study, she said, 88 percent of American women invest primarily in low-yield vehicles such as savings accounts and CDs, none of which outpaces inflation. By not entering the more high-yield world... View Details