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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
students firsthand experience with team dynamics. “Learning teams are becoming part of the culture at HBS,” says Professor Jeff Polzer, faculty chair of the MBA Learning Teams Initiative. “They give students the opportunity to work with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
departure of more than 200,000 Huguenots at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a well-documented economic disaster for the kingdom of France, but the importance of these refugees to the countries where they settled is less known. Busslinger analyzes the economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional business education, and to mobilize their institutions on behalf of a nation whose core View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
the dot-com boom. At a tribal ceremony to celebrate his graduation, he remembers feeling the acute dichotomy between the go-go culture of HBS and the words of a tribal elder: "He was translating back and forth in Omaha," Keen recalls,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Empire By Caroline M. Elkins, Professor of Business Administration Alfred A. Knopf Sprawling across a quarter of the world’s landmass and claiming nearly 700 million people, Britain’s twentieth-century empire was the largest in human history. For many Britons, it... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
have a big impact on the economy, says Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna in his new book, Political Standards. With a small pool of qualified experts who set the standards—experts who often have a commercial stake in the outcome—and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
water treatment, and health care. Over half of GE’s revenues came from abroad last year, reinforcing its standing as a truly global company. You’ve said, “I’m a real GE person.” What does that mean? I’ve spent my whole career here, in many different jobs, so I know the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
There are few cultural attractions; Monrovia has only one movie theater, and it’s overrun by cats. But the beach is very nice. Anyway, I’m always working. I don’t have much time for diversion. COMTE: Close to Miami, a piece of France in... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
you have to balance the two, you're doing the right thing. Now, if you're in politics and you're making a decision, it obviously has to do with Apollo. But if you are with your family and your kids and your friends and you go out at night... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of shareholder power. The result is the imposition of ineffective,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
crisis provided the political will to create safeguards in the system that, even with deterioration over time, will protect us for a long time to come,” he says. Shining a Light on Shadow Banks David Scharfstein, Edmund Cogswell Converse... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
children for modern American startup success—lost $10 billion between January and October of 2020. There’s also been huge social and political pushback against some of the tech giants, who are under fire for exacerbating issues of... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
included everything from international political conflicts to “an increasingly competitive marketplace.” Most observers assumed this latter challenge was a sign of America’s changing tastes—that the fast-casual, more ingredient- conscious... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
unconscious bias, support women to stay in the workforce, and shine a spotlight on STEM and skilled workers.” Collenette also shared data on the “too incremental” progress of women in Canada historically, and the loss of political ground... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), financial advisor to governments, Paris, France Use due diligence in assessing the "people" environment in which you will work: the culture of the company, the team you will join, and the seniors you... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
-Rawi E. Abdelal (Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management) – Professor Abdelal is the director of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His primary expertise is in international political economy.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015, Michael Laverty—Gordon’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
percent. When surviving “examination hell” and college itself doesn’t offer any guarantees—why bother at all? So, is lying flat here to stay? Or is it just fun to say? The overriding culture of hard work in China will continue, Kirby... View Details