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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
Family and friends, including George H.W. Bush, rallied to his side. Asked by Bush to chair his 1988 Colorado campaign, Petersmeyer was later tapped by President-elect Bush to head the new White House Office of National Service, which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
reap appropriate rewards. Consumer Capitalism by Gunnar Trumbull (Cornell University Press) The author investigates the origins of national systems of consumer protection in France and Germany, where consumer groups and producers... View Details
- December 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Aviation Security after September 11th: Public or Private?
Was the public or the private sector best positioned to provide security and baggage screening services? The suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the plane crash outside Pittsburgh, marked September 11, 2001, as the date of the most severe... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; National Security; Air Transportation; State Ownership; Air Transportation Industry; United States
Dyck, Alexander, and Mehmet Beceren. "Aviation Security after September 11th: Public or Private?" Harvard Business School Case 702-021, December 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations), the United States can expect at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
bring a champion back home to Kentucky. Japan, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, England, Ireland, Australia, France, and Brazil are just a handful of the countries that represent the global nature of the Thoroughbred industry. “For... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
a national second-opinion service it has to scramble to find staff doctors who have certifications in all the states even though the clinic is a preeminent medical center. There are a striking number of other examples such as this where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
largest senior population in the history of the United States. And millions of boomer households are financially unprepared, one extended health crisis, job loss, or traumatic event from insolvency. As individuals facing this situation,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
matter. This performance wasn’t going to be judged on technical proficiency or exacting execution. There was still no gas or drinking water in the Lower Ninth Ward. Tens of thousands of residents were still displaced. There was an ongoing View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
moved to Washington to join the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, part of a multi-billion-dollar Obama administration initiative to speed the development of a nationwide, interoperable electronic health... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
After decades of decline, despair, and neglect, the last ten years have brought some preliminary signs of revitalization to a number of inner-city neighborhoods in the United States. Blighted areas such as Chicago's North Side, New York's... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is already leading not just to destruction of assets but also... View Details
- Portrait Project
Wei Su
I came to North America, I became a die-hard Chinese. I still subscribe to the five-thousand years old Chinese tenet for women - "helping husbands, educating kids." I believe leadership and accomplishment start at home. I want to become a writer - to write... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
Gun Deaths, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Expanding the waiting period policy to all 50 US states would prevent more than 900 additional gun homicides per year, the study says. Making people... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
professor at BI Norwegian Business School; and Joacim Tåg, program director at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics. In their study, comprising an entire nation of executives, the researchers systematically tried to suss out a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women
On November 3, HBS will host the first venture capital forum ever held for women entrepreneurs in the New England area. Titled "Springboard 2000: New England" and sponsored by the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) and the National... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training great principals to lead great schools
At New Leaders, Benjamin Fenton (AB 1996, MBA 2000) directs strategy for the only national organization focused on developing exceptional school leaders for high-need district and charter schools. Between 2000 and 2013, the organization... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
Using the power of crowdsourcing, Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) turned neighborly advice about good service providers into a national consumer network that has transformed the world of online reviews and ratings. In 1995, Hicks cofounded Angie’s... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
2010, the upscale national grocer—at the gentle suggestion of Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow—came to look at properties in central Detroit. One of them was a vacant piece of land that Cummings owned on Mack Avenue in Midtown, next to... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details