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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
proportion of their rising incomes, in marked contrast to Americans, who in recent years have saved almost none at all. Chinese corporations save an even larger proportion of their soaring profits. So plentiful are savings that, for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
and we made believe that the sponsors, the biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB Financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
through feedback from the judges. The judges included alumni and seasoned professionals from foundations, impact investing, capacity-building organizations, and social enterprise startups. “We received valuable feedback from the judges around our View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 8, 1908, and President Eliot’s choice for its first dean — a young Harvard economist named Edwin F. Gay — was confirmed that day. The following fall, 24 candidates arrived ready to pursue a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
educational products. A key aspect of LEGO’s approach to the educational toy market centers on educating parents about the importance of play. “Play is undervalued,” explains Moynihan. “Children’s lives are so structured that they often... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
less likely to be promoted to management than men. And Hispanic, Latino, and Black employees make up 11 and 12 percent of entry-level hires but only three to five percent of corporate vice presidents. View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
In early June, with students and their families gathered for graduation, Class Day ceremonies took center stage at HBS as notable speeches, prizes, and events highlighted the festivities honoring the Class of 1998 and its 851 graduates.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
2004. Brailer’s mission is to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014 and to link those records to a national medical data network. “It’s time to put health information technology center stage,” Brailer told some 300... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
emerging economies. Huang's observations came on the first day of the seminar, which centered on the architecture of financial systems. Enrico Perotti of the University of Amsterdam discussed a related topic - how to build confidence in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
information (street, telephone number, etc.), and batches of filled-in forms were sent to the keypunching center in the basement of Baker Library. Piles of keypunched cards (each somewhat smaller than a size 10 envelope) containing the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
sponsors, including Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. A traditional highlight of the conference is the presentation of awards to alumni in recognition of outstanding leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets and covers the retail and consumer industry as well. “I work... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
Schooner (MBA 1983) and a group of social work students who were all working at two nonprofits—the Women’s Center and the Peace Neighborhood Center—in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The questions: “Why do men rape young girls?” and “Why don’t they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
unprecedented session brought together faculty with expertise in all aspects of business for a far-reaching discussion of the fallen corporate giant. Palepu opened the discussion by stating the afternoon's objectives. “Together, we will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
investing in and acquiring companies. The corruption he found in Africa, and later in Asia and Latin America, convinced him that the issue needed to be better understood. As a scholar, researcher, speaker, and writer, with stints at the Brookings Institution, the View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
to succeed in this more complex world, and to increase our scale and reach to bring our mission to even more people, requires a relentless dedication to innovation." John Hess (AB 1975, MBA 1977), CEO of the Hess Corporation and chair of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
design rules. Thus, the computer industry was transformed from a quasi monopoly (dominated by IBM) into a large modular "cluster" of related subindustries, a development made possible by the decentralization and multiplication of design options. When the forces of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
Hsieh’s “gray area.” Could he best help the country by taking a stand against corruption or by cleaning up its streets? Hsieh, who is now course head for Leadership and Corporate Accountability, wrote the case “Cedar Environmental:... View Details