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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
have confidence. If you perform the appropriate due diligence up front, then you can be confident that you’ll make the right decisions, no matter where you are. What are some of the business issues you’ve dealt with? Cost issues, an... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT company that is still in the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
are enormous obstacles, with cataract surgery costing between 18,000 to 30,000 pesos (about $1,000–$1,500 USD) in private institutions. Founded in 2011 by engineers Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, salauno helped more than 150,000 patients in its first five years... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, including the Justice Department, Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He frequently comments in the news media on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
logistics to web services—will be disrupted, with experts predicting that quantum machines will rapidly perform tasks that would take today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and outmoded bureaucracies that have... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
truth, and you need to trust the people, trust the process," she says. As the network took shape, members began holding each other accountable for achieving high standards of performance and for using their leadership to bring about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
efforts center on issues affecting entrepreneurial firms and their investors. Gompers studies the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; the sources of financing, incentive design, and View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
recognized the opportunity—and necessity—to use their research to help leaders, companies, organizations, and governments navigate the challenges posed by the pandemic. This meant not only extending and reframing their research, but also... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
shaping the business environment and, in turn, influencing performance at the industry and firm level. Since joining the faculty in 1989, Emmons has conducted extensive research on the interaction between View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
also be — and, given the large size of some companies, sometimes had to be — performed by teams of people. Meanwhile, the continual infusion of energy by the kinds of startup companies Schumpeter himself preferred remained vital sources... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
pressure is the fear of losing an adequately performing CEO. To make sure this does not happen, compensation committees rely on surveys by compensation consultants about CEO pay in similar companies but without regard to company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
have implemented balanced scorecards, the performance management system that the pair developed in 1992. In The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, the authors delve into... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
hoping leaders could achieve with these principles? Amy Jen Su: My greatest hopes with these five principles is that we address the whole person, that someone leaves the book saying, "Wow, I now have a holistic framework to think about not only being more effective and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
MBA elective curriculum and teaches Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations. Salter believes that "all great courses at HBS communicate performance hypotheses - notions about what makes for good business practice - for... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
1977) (Logos Press) By focusing on three areas—vision, process, and output—managers can improve their performance and satisfaction within their businesses and in their personal lives. This book brackets management insights with a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
mind a balletic scene, one of thousands performed every day, in which an elderly man driving a donkey cart merges seamlessly between a minibus and a battered sedan. It doesn't seem as if it could possibly work. And yet it does. Someday,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher by Ann Lee (MBA 1995) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in human rights, Lee details the policies and practices—in areas ranging from education and View Details