acting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1998
News

HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco

opportunities for both education and networking. "We wanted the experience to be informative and empowering," he says. "As HBS graduates, we can act individually and collectively as a resource for our community and have a tremendous... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

executives using tax minimization strategies, and to see whether that correlated with the tax strategies of the corporations they run. Spoiler alert: They do. The 2013 tax increases due to the American Taxpayer Relief Act and the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

William G. McGowan

McGowan built a $4 billion telecommunication business that defeated the AT&T monopoly. Acting as a self-employed consultant, McGowan rescued MCI by paying off its debts and created a lean competitor to AT&T by under-pricing the... View Details

Keywords: Communications

Web

Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Patients Patients Consumers, as health plan subscribers and patients, should be the ultimate beneficiaries of a value-based health care delivery system. They can and should act as catalysts for change —but... View Details

Intriguing Questions

criteria of success since I leave with more questions than answers, and three broad lessons that I would like to share. The first is that as much as history is shaped by political figures and pivotal events, it is also shaped by businesses and their leaders who through... View Details

13 Apr 2017
News

Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus

height to accommodate larger air groups. The ship also has mine-hunting capabilities, according to UPI. In a statement issued ahead of the christening, acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley said, "When the future USS Paul Ignatius joins the... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

Issue Focus: The Global Manager Fields Photo courtesy FORD Motor Company Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally No disrespect to Detroit and California—they’re definitely hubs... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Web

Report Archive - Global Activities 2021

Report Archive Report Archive The Global Activities Report highlights HBS’s engagement and impact around the world as the School works to educate leaders who have the global understanding necessary to envision, and act on, the most... View Details

Web

1.4.2 Classroom Environment | MBA

Staff members who participate in classroom activities are equally responsible for understanding and acting to uphold these standards. If specific behaviors in the classroom become significantly disruptive and distracting, they will be... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)

Black Enterprise is a multimedia company with the mission to ensure that everyone can act on the opportunities this country has provided to so many. Our tagline is “Wealth for life.” My father launched Black Enterprise in 1970 with a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

05 Apr 2020
News

Launching in a World in Limbo

launch, the New York Times chronicled Whitman and Katzenberg’s challenging third act in a story called, “Two Veteran C.E.O.s Risk $1.8 Billion on a Streaming App. In a Pandemic.” Both led some of the biggest companies in the U.S. before... View Details

07 Nov 2014
News

In partnership to support a mission

education, civic engagement, and international peace and security initiatives. Jenkins explains that she and Lew divide the portfolio, each serving as the primary manager for one-half of the investments, while acting as devil’s advocate... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

East Side Story

down after representing the heavily Democratic “Silk Stocking” district of Manhattan's Upper East Side for 33 years. “It seemed an appropriate time to accept a new responsibility with a different scope,” said Goodman (New York Daily News, January 16, 2002), who will... View Details

08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

allow people to act on temporary emotions and impulses. (A recent paper by David Card and Gordon Dahl shows a 10 percent spike in domestic violence immediately after a local National Football League team suffers an upset loss,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

historical events in the 1930s that might affect some states but not others. They considered the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which guaranteed the rights of private-sector employees to unionize and engage in collective... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Lee Shubert

world. In fact, they were so successful, that the Shubert Theater Company was itself accused of monopolistic practices in the fifties. The Shuberts built their company by appealing to the common man; they staged plays and vaudeville acts... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

How the US’s Inflation Reduction Act has opened new business opportunities across multiple sectors Re: Julia Brady (MBA 1997); Christian Weeks (MBA 2010); Matt Arnold (MBA 1995); Heather March Takle (MBA 2006); Monica Varman (MBA 2016);... View Details

Portrait Project

Xavier Paternot

I want to build things and blow them up. I want to act irresponsibly. I want to play music. I want to be rewarded with a Nobel Prize if I save people lives and go to jail if I cheat. I want to keep on being fascinated every time I look at... View Details

Web

Awards | Commencement 2025

communities. In addition, these students have contributed to the well-being of society through exceptional acts of leadership. 2025 Dean’s Award Recipient Faculty Teaching Awards MBA Faculty teaching awards are determined by students from... View Details

Portrait Project

Veronica Pinchin

around the motions of apple-picking season, as I worked in the orchard alongside my family: moving ladders, picking apples, and pouring brimming baskets of fruit into bags. I fell in love with the small miracle of watching apples grow. That ordinary View Details

Publications