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- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
In an interview in last December's Bulletin Dean Kim B. Clark talked of launching "a profound transformation around information technology (IT)," an initiative that would earn for the School an unequaled... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Does realizing the American Dream deliver a good life? In this book, Kaufman develops a fundamentally new understanding of how elite undergraduate educations and careers play out in lives, and what shapes happiness among the prizewinners... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
a victim, Lemmon argues that too often we are comfortable with a narrative that sees women as objects of pity. “Women have been pulling families through dark periods in even the most difficult countries... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
HBS faculty members, and leading Latin American scholars and business practitioners. What are some of the region's important business issues? It is difficult to speak of Latin America as a single unit. That... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
information for industry executives and fashionistas alike. Amed, who made British GQ’s list of the 100 most influential men in Britain in 2011, attributes much of that success... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
have CEOs walk off in handcuffs. This is not an Enron kind of situation. People made some bad bets, maybe even some stupid bets, but even though I’m not a lawyer, I don’t think stupidity is a crime.” Mankiw outlined the two basic View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
it's something new; financial institutions are worried about losing money; the federal government is concerned about compliance problems associated with designing a new system to serve so many people; the lawyers are worried about SEC regulations," he says, reciting... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who was unsuccessfully... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
“Why didn’t I think of that?” I’ve learned to trust that there’s an endless well of good ideas. And when you put opportunities in the hands of wild-eyed optimists—instead View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
or not we’re active users of them. A new case coauthored by HBS marketing professor John Deighton and research associate Leora Kornfeld offers an object lesson in what that means for big, recognizable... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
they gave was of a European hospital that changed scheduling to be patient-centric. The entire patient experience was vastly improved and did not hurt the hospital's income. Other than the airline industry it is hard to find an industry... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
equity, Rice says, we’re not well informed about how the experiences of people of color differ from their white peers; and because those conversations are considered charged,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Photos by Nancee Lewis The kind of private schools Chris Crane (MBA 1976) invests in have cement floors, no glass in the windows, cramped quarters, and just enough food on hand for the students to eat. “I see mothers labor in the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
competitiveness. Transformation at this scale will take longer than the typical two-year political cycle, Ballou-Aares says, but already the organization is seeing the first wave of results. Its members are helping drive change in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
challenge? Using a tool called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Speed & Scale offers an unprecedented global plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions before it’s too late. Used by Google, Bono’s ONE foundation, and thousands View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
looms as a potential complement or substitute for all of the major categories of existing media and appears capable of serving a wide range of... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
business focused on seniors. “The insight is that, at some point, seniors will be comfortable with video chat—and lo and behold, COVID-19 has really proven that to be the case. That’s an example of the myth... View Details