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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
centered on developing more dynamic online resources, including an informative electronic newsletter and searchable, Web-based Class Notes embedded with e-mail hot links. Regarding delivery, the committee felt there should be more... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
well as access to other financial services such as credit cards, mortgages, mutual funds, insurance, and discount brokers, all conducted online. Because Internet-only banks have lower overhead costs, they can pass savings on View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
like to think of themselves as truly indispensable—impact makers, history movers, culture changers—few reach the bar set by Steve Jobs, Napoleon, or Martin Luther King Jr., Mukunda says. (Even some people you might think would View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
done differently. “The video is a very powerful teaching tool,” says Yoffie. “Few CEOs will admit to their mistakes in a public setting.” The comings and goings of various CEOs at Apple over the years can... View Details
- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
Indian American expatriate. I found that the best aspects of my classmates were not necessarily what they had done - but who they were becoming. 2. Worldview matters I thought HBS would teach me to become a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
what pieces of higher education can be done through distance technologies—through Zoom, through different kinds of online media—and what pieces can’t. It’s been touching and poignant and sad View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
thought I was being victimized," he remembers. "But when I went to talk to him about it after that fourth time, he said he just thought I had View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
result of digitization.” To the contrary, book consumption overall has remained stable over the last two decades. What digitization has really done is expand our ability to... View Details
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
forefathers of this concept. “We’re just fine-tuning it,” she said. “People have been attacking this space but no one has done it quite the same way we have.” Headquartered in New York with an office in Boston,... View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Tuesday, March 14, more than 200 alumni in the New Your area gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in New York:... View Details
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
Before she applied to HBS, Dana Hoffmann seemed to be on a dream career trajectory. With a master’s degree in applied mathematics, she had worked as a financial analyst at... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three... View Details
- Web
Commencement 2020 Address | About
challenge of World War II and the Marshall Plan came to be known as the Greatest Generation. You, the Class of 2020, are as prepared as anyone to meet the challenges the world... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
working from hotels, and we got as much work done that week as any other. We realized, wow, this agency is not about the space. It’s about the people and everyone being connected View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
pearl inlays, and constantly check their handiwork. Nonetheless, dozens of these carefully hand-assembled guitars are destroyed every day because they aren't quite good enough to be Gibsons. Observes... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
you've done on firms' location decisions. Could businesses be doing a better job of that? MP: American businesses should be locating certain activities abroad because that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
defending the right to innovate or standing up against the Government's regulatory bias. There was some feeling in this group that Microsoft was unlucky in drawing a judge who turned out to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Andrew Pratt
going down the road less traveled. Why not start something new? HBS has helped me separate out what really excited me about the work I was doing before. I found that what really drives me is not necessarily being the cog in the large... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy