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01 Apr 1999
News

New Releases

Organizations, and Business Schools; Business History; and the Global Financial System Project. In surveying McArthur's accomplishments at HBS, readers are reminded that the former Dean's HBS experience began back in 1957, when he arrived... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

turning by the end of the 1950s. A 1959 article informed readers that women would be allowed to attend the School as second-year MBA students and doctoral candidates. "It is conceivable that a few young women would see good reason for... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

international clubs continue to face the challenges of producing viable levels of membership, activities, and finances. This committee hopes to recommend and implement several initiatives that will provide club officers with the systems... View Details

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

from the Working Paper.Ann Cullen: How is your system different than traditional mutual fund rating systems? Cohen: Our method takes advantage of a wealth of previously unexploited information about fund... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Dec 2011
News

Faculty Books

sustainability, and develop and execute the systems needed to accomplish both. Based on more than 10 years of research and filled with examples, this book explores the basic structure of a nonprofit. It explains how to build, monitor, and... View Details

Keywords: Utilities

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

external information should be reported less often, so that we ease the pressure to meet shortterm targets. Internally, we need more disclosure. The board must be wired into all systems so that it can get... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

Fast Answer

Transforming Health Care Delivery

Where can I find information to help me with my course work? View Details

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance policies, under consumer-driven... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2002
News

Dot Vertigo

"dot nothings"; that legacy systems can be built upon; that the United States is the Internet leader; that PCs provide the only access to the Internet; and that English is the language of the Internet. Nolan urges senior managers to look... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Sep 2018
Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

decisions and shaped our path forward. Now, towards the end of the summer, we are finally armed with enough information and experience to create a weekly and monthly plan. I learned that when you’re in the very early discovery and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Feb 2002
News

Replicating Toyota's Success

likely a company is not going to get a design perfect on the first try," notes Spear. "It needs to have the people within its system capable of making improvements." Spear has now helped apply Toyota's principles to much of Alcoa's... View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2001
News

Books: Judo Strategy

Netscape’s head of engineering how he could ever hope to compete successfully with Microsoft, given the dominant position of Windows, he gave a very judo-like answer. ‘You can look at Microsoft’s operating system as an asset, or you can... View Details

Keywords: Microsoft; Netscape; Information; Information

Portrait Project

Dominique Baillet

I've always had a big mouth. In third grade, I informed my teacher, Mr. Rogers, that the design for recess line-up was flawed: We kids spent disproportionate time organizing alphabetically at the cost of the very freedom recess was... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

determine which unique capabilities your company values the most. K-12 On the Brink: Why America’s Education System Fails to Improve, and Only Business Leadership Can Fix It by Tom Coyne (MBA 1984) Independently published Ask yourself... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Faculty Books

(Harvard Business Review Press) Drawing on his years of experience studying and advising VC firms, companies, and governments, Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional open and VC-backed... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
News

Short Takes

Reinhardt writes that for a company to be sustainable, it must have a strategy or development path that maintains an undiminished level of net assets. He argues that if the prices in the firm's accounting systems are the correct ones, the... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2000
News

Capturing Human Capital

corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do... View Details

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13607... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace