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01 Sep 2005
News

London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS

http://video.hbs.edu/events/glf2005/. Forum participants assembled in the QEII Centre’s large auditorium for plenary presentations featuring prominent leaders from Britain, the Continent, and the United States. Koehn set the framework for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

consumer finance. To that end I’ve helped to create a seminar series for researchers at Harvard, the Boston Fed, and other local universities where we get together twice a year to talk about consumer finance research. This fall, we’re launching a View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

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Aspa Lekka

grades weren’t excellent." But she had two powerful forces on her side. For starters, she is an outstanding athlete, a professional handball player, and member of the Greek National Team. "One of the reasons I stayed in... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

August 2010 (Revised September 2010)
Case

Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq

By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Nicholas Henri Taranto

Since becoming the President's envoy responsible for post-war Iraq, Paul Bremer endured many sleepless nights, struggling with the decision of how to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqi people. Despite daily assassination attempts, tribal warfare, growing violence, and... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; International Relations; National Security; Leadership; Crisis Management; Iraq; District of Columbia

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14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

most of these minorities fled or were killed. In other words, the country’s entrepreneurial elite were decimated. It proved a lengthy and challenging process over subsequent decades to build a new Muslim national business class employing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

performance of business units can be evaluated using measures of economic value creation. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211061-PDF-ENG China Environment Fund: Doing Well by Doing Good Christopher Marquis and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

by national policy than they were by informal, local business deals. As Lurtz writes in her research summary, "Here coffee emerged in the hands of a diverse body of participants. Alongside foreign merchants and migrant planters, local... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Oct 2000
News

Faculty Retirements

addition, he has held important administrative positions at the School, chairing Exec Ed's Advanced Management Program and its International Senior Managers' Program, as well as the MBA Program's Production and Operations Management unit... View Details

06 Nov 2009
News

Health Reform Paths Not Taken

health benefits, Herzlinger favors tax breaks. She proposes that Congress simply extend to all employees the current tax-exemption employers have for the purchase of employee health plans. Writing in the National Review, she explained how... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 2001
News

Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment

start a network from scratch?" In a stellar career that has also included stints running several movie studios and a national theater chain (as well as leading the initial U.S. rollout of Sony's PlayStation), Sagansky has always had his... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Arts, Entertainment

05 May 2011
News

Blazing a Trail for Glenn Beck

job, Morgan elaborated on that earlier comment. “Glenn Beck is enormously fascinating to me because he is undeniably a national brand,” she said. “He has a strong, multiplatform, devoted audience. It’s an audience that does not have as... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Shreya Saraf

I will sing out loud. I stood with my fourth-grade class and sang the national anthem with my head held high. Our teacher paced up and down, frowning, and said, “Someone sounds like a frog.” Everyone stopped mid-sentence. Some looked... View Details

09 Apr 2019
News

Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

couple cofounded End Allergies Together (EAT)—a research nonprofit that aims to accelerate treatments and cures for food allergies—with Tom and Kim Hall, another couple whose daughter lives with a similar diagnosis. Their first step was to address a major research... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

four primary trends driving the development of innovative solutions: The first is the world's population growth, forecast by the United Nations to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050, and the mass migration from... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811013-PDF-ENG National Public Broadcasting Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 211-058 Bob Williams, the CEO of National Public... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

program became a HBS case study, published by professors Gary Pisano and Robert Austin. It was also honored by the United Nations on World Autism Day. Fieldhouse is currently piloting a work-experience... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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Mallika Ahluwalia

school system, Mallika accepted her first international development challenge. Working in a small team, Mallika helped run a United Nations World Food Program project in Namibia that fed 90,000 AIDS-affected... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

emphasized the need to enlist broad community involvement, a process, he noted, that "has taught me more about the strength of diversity than anything else." United Airlines' Gerald Greenwald is chairman of the Welfare to Work... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

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