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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Advantage: A Framework for Understanding Corporate Environmental Management," by HBS associate professor Forest Reinhardt. "Does it pay firms to be Œenvironmentally friendly?'" Reinhardt writes. "It makes more sense...to ask when it pays,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
to emphasize a point. “His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident,” noted a 1976 article in the Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in which View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
professionals, managers, and executives, from HR to finance, law firms to tech companies, across the world. Those conversations revolved around three key questions: What are the most common mistakes early-career professionals make at... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
comes from ticket and concession sales, compared with the standard 50 percent of most performing arts organizations. With numerous public outreach programs, the Big Apple, adds Slifka, "is both an incredibly successful View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
A Change of Life
firm's tutoring company, Score, a $2 million acquisition in 1996, into a $50 million operation in five years, the Times reported (July 14, 2001). In so doing, he caught the eye of an executive search firm that tried to interest him in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be allowed to run for office in local... View Details
- 26 Oct 2011
- News
On Top, Down Under
Fookes: Leading the way at one of Australia's premier real estate firms. Photo courtesy Mark Fookes Mark Fookes (AMP 178, 2010) is head of investment management at The GPT Group, a Sydney, Australia, firm that manages $9.8 billion of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
ultimately interviewing hundreds of parents in the corporate sector, as well as in medicine, the military, nonprofits, education, performing arts, academia, and in frontline service jobs. In 2016, Dowling used her findings to launch... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women, such an opportunity is indeed rare for female executives, most of whom have always worked in male-dominated workplaces. "While they're able to perform very well in predominantly male... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
the big ahas was discovering that the drop in performance we observed after stars transitioned from one firm to another was applicable only to people named Boris. Not Barbara. Basically, it's a story of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
United States. Fuller collaborated with labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies—led by CEO Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999)—to identify occupations best suited for the apprenticeship model. One criterion: The occupation must... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
quickly bring new ideas to market," Kanter says. Steven C. Wheelwright, MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration and chairman of the MBA Program, who works with a variety of firms in areas such as innovation, renewal,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
be paid for that social performance at a rate that enables it to give a satisfactory return to the investors,” says Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), a cocreator of the idea. Cohen has emerged as the public face of social investing in the UK... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
impartially among a range of views, faculty members debated the ramifications of this approach to course content and HBS pedagogy. Then, O&M Professor Michael C. Jensen's summary of the unit's views on the corporate objective function and View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
and his wife, Lisa, live in Rhode Island with their two children. Robert A. Hut (12th OPM) is executive vice president of Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., which licenses to the world market the stage performance rights of Broadway... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
self-interest rather than in the interests of the whole. Thus, the decentralized organization must also develop new control systems. Jensen asserts that there are three main elements in an organization's total strategy: competitive, organizational, and human. "It is... View Details