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17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

G19 + 1. For business leaders, the early optimism following Trump’s election that corporate taxes would be reduced, America’s infrastructure would be improved, and an improved healthcare system would be created has faded away. Many... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

policies, and identity politics. In San Jose, many women were elected to political positions. As state governments cut funding for schools, they turned to Silicon Valley firms for philanthropy, unintentionally handing control of public... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

providers feel comfortable about adopting your innovation? Can you make it the standard of care, meaning it is something doctors have to do? Can you get Medicare to pay for it? The MBA elective course I teach, Innovating in Health Care,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2005
News

Winning Legally

business objectives.” Before joining the HBS faculty in 2000, Bagley was a corporate securities partner in Bingham McCutchen LLP and a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She teaches the MBA elective Legal Aspects... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

well when he was later elected student body president at the University of Washington. During his senior year, a faculty advisor encouraged him to apply to Harvard Business School, which Nielsen describes as a "life-changing experience"... View Details

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Cross-Registration | MBA

only in MBA Program Elective Curriculum (2nd Year) courses and is contingent upon meeting the following criteria: Students must be in good standing at their home school. Students must be enrolled in a graduate level degree program at one... View Details

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

have their director candidates' names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident shareholders now must send out their own ballots); puts an end to staggered boards at all companies (boards traditionally elect one-third of... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

April 2011 (Revised March 2012)
Supplement

U.S. Healthcare Reform: Reaction to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Supplement to "U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives" updating key events and disputes concerning the reform law, including the 2010 Congressional elections, legislative proposals, legal challenges, and responses by employers. View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Political Elections; Health Care and Treatment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Government Relations; Public Opinion; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

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30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

reduced tax evasion and, in connection with other reforms, brought about high and sustainable economic growth. And the situation kept evolving throughout the course of writing the case; in 2006, the Slovaks elected a new government. In... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Israel - Global Activities 2021

make the investment. Miodownik participated remotely during the case discussion in the Food and Agribusiness elective course to explain to students the challenges he was facing. “In many markets, the top disincentive to investing in... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Ready for Launch

elective taught by faculty adviser and senior lecturer Daniel Isenberg. EGG: Engineering Global Growth. Why Africa? Alla “So many people see Africa as a place of violence and corruption. Having lived there, I see it as a market like any... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

27 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

staying in the United States,” she says. “Israel is home. I’m extremely attached to my home and language. But my options are much more limited there.” Discovering her “I” in the iLab In her second, Elective Curriculum, year, Noa expanded... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

Profile

Elsa Sze

your heart by trying different things. Your career picture is more like a mosaic than a straight line.” Interviewed Spring 2013 Update: Elsa Sze graduated in 2014, and went on to found The Agora, "an online town hall for all" to give more people a louder... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

their jobs to offer to resign, and Dayton Hudson Corp. insists that outside directors resign if they change jobs. The General Motors Board of Directors Corporate Governance Guidelines assert that "individual Directors who change the responsibility they held when they... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

01 Mar 2004
News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

directly related to entrepreneurship) and that in addition to the required first-year course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, the School offers nearly twenty elective courses in entrepreneurship. Said Roberts, “The judges appreciated that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

digital marketing. At HBS, Luca will teach a new MBA elective this spring focusing on experiments from a manager’s perspective. Twenty years ago, the idea would have been unheard of in most business schools. But in an era of increasingly... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

"In emerging markets, it's very hard to regulate," he says. "Big companies are large enough to lobby and capture elected and government officials." While in some minds that description might also include developed Western democracies,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

01 Jun 2007
News

Power Trip

research, Nitin and I are involved in teaching a second-year elective called Great Business Leaders, which draws on cases developed from our database. We talk a lot in class about legacies and how business leaders should be judged —... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

ill-prepared entrepreneurial aspirants. Mace's course, The Management of New Enterprises (MNE), was initially offered as a second-year elective in 1947 and saw one hundred students enroll. According to the course catalog, MNE was designed... View Details

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