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- 24 Apr 2014
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Leading in business and in public education
saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
turn has contributed to rising health care costs. According to a study published by the RAND Corporation, health care spending from 1999 to 2009 wiped out the economic gains of the typical American middle-class family. “If we solve our... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
country, we should not rest on our laurels. Kane: I believe many Americans feel a disdain for the government, and they see private enterprise as a way of fighting the system. I also think that in the United States, people are more likely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
been a couple of steps ahead — as an entrepreneur, that's the best you can hope for.” Indeed, Massie believes that today's headlines about lax corporate controls, conflicts of interest, and ethical shortcomings are really nothing new. “In the long view,” he says, “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
(with Richard F. Vancil and Paul W. Marshall). He also contributed the chapter"Capital Budgeting and Long-Range Planning" to the book Progress in Operations Research. Beyond HBS, Christenson has been an active member of professional organizations such as the View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
their pistols and muskets and attack only with swords and bayonets. Hamilton's troops silently crept up on the British, then surged into the trenches and began screaming like madmen. After ten or fifteen minutes of vicious hand-to-hand fighting, the View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
Things may not have looked this bleak for African Americans in a long time, but at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead in eastern Long Island, which serves many of the area's black families -- including Daniels's own -- you'd never know... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
compensation does not result in improved performance in American companies, they conclude, corporations abroad should resist pressures to tie incentives to individual and unit performance. Two Best Ways? When HBS assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
Wilson Illustration by Jeffrey Smith After 121 days at sea, Rich Wilson (MBA 1982) sailed his 60-foot, single-hull sloop Great American III across the finish line in France last March, completing the 2008–09 Vendée Globe around-the-world... View Details
- 19 Aug 2019
- News
A New Purpose for the Corporation
Offering an update of their statement on “the purpose of a corporation”, the Business Roundtable, an influential group of some of America’s top chief executives, noted that “we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders”—and not just their shareholders.... View Details
- 11 Feb 2017
- News
Harvard Business School Makes a Case for Diversity
last week, Rogers said that less than 1 percent of the roughly 10,000 HBS cases focus on a black executive, even though 9 percent of American companies are black-owned. Rogers, who has been teaching at HBS for five years, has set out to... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
The Road to Racial Equity
CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit that fights racial and economic inequities by empowering the next generation of leaders. Since 2002, MLT has been working with high-achieving Black, Latinx, and Native View Details
- 01 May 2013
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Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001
Now serving as Hoplite’s managing director and chief administrative officer, the busy New Yorker rounds out her professional and parenting resumes with philanthropic and advisory roles at institutions such as the American Museum of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Research Available on World Wide Web
history of American business? These are among the many topics currently being explored by HBS faculty and research assistants. Each year, more than 40 percent of the faculty's time and 30 percent of the School's total budget are devoted... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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Noted & Quoted
“It is not at all clear that when firms expand abroad they contract at home. If anything, you see the opposite.” — HBS professor MIHIR DESAI noting that foreign profits made by American firms put them in a better position to grow at home.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
alumni profiles are introduced as "Interesting and Important Things about Men You Know." Summer 1942 Full page photo/obituary announcing the death of Ensign Francis X. Clarke (MBA '41), the first American alumnus "to lose his life in the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
John Gillespie (right) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) are the authors of Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions (Free Press, 2010). Gillespie was an investment banker for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
have long understood that private markets for risk don't always function adequately on their own, Moss said, adding that "involving the federal government in the management of terror-related risks would in no way constitute a radical departure from the path of View Details