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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
and the City Library, and most importantly, helping the Office of the Mayor develop a system of collaboration where startups can play a role in doing pilots with dozens of city departments without the typical red tape.” “San Francisco is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
to $10 million, that will honor Nohria by supporting: the HBS Fund; the Nitin Nohria Endowment for Business and Society, which in addition to enabling innovative research will establish a professorship named for Nohria; the priorities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
1991 and served in various managerial capacities before being named president in 2000 and CEO in 2005. Despite the chain’s strong showing in a down economy (with three new stores scheduled to open in March 2010), Schiffer expects he and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
from some of India’s most respected names in business, public governance, diplomacy, and the intelligentsia. It explains the frequent and vital intersections between government and business, culture and modernity, and demographics and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
approach to philanthropy. When you started with Baupost at age 25, did you already consider yourself a value investor? Yes. After my junior year in college and right after graduating, I worked for Mutual Shares Corporation, which was run by a wonderful gentleman View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
portfolio of product lines, setting Novartis apart from its global competitors. Although initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a multinational pharmaceutical company, Vasella has triumphed. Three years ago he was View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Standing Rock. Photographers arrested at the anti-Trump protest down in DC. Artists harassed. An artist named Illma Gore who did a famous naked Trump portrait, and a bunch of lawyers came after her. The clients behind those lawyers, it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the financial system are not understood here, then perhaps the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
they are. Their names appear on the generic, straight-to-the-wastebasket proxy forms that shareholders receive. But despite recent improvements that have increased shareholders’ voices in governance, a levelheaded observer like former SEC... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
goals for Arctic research is to put in place an environmental observing system that helps us understand changes in the Arctic, a critical component of the global system. We can’t get a fix on climate change just by focusing on what comes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Christopher Columbus were, in a sense, venture capitalists. But it wasn’t until the second half of the 20th century that venture financing became a professional, large-scale industry. And the man who led that transformation was Georges Doriot. I can’t recall exactly... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
promote, in word and deed, the salutary effects of entrepreneurship. In keeping with that objective, in October 1945, Professor Sumner H. Slichter, the first HBS-based professor to be named a University Professor, wrote an article for... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
talent shortages. Anne Bonaparte sees it firsthand in her corporate customers: a lack of frontline security workers. “They’re not developers or data scientists,” she says. The workers they need range from entry level to managerial leaders, all responsible for manning... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
graduation. Bill Clinton, move over. « Back to the top of the page Rockin' Round the Clock — Rajil Kapoor by James E. Aisner In a popular Boston nightspot, more than a thousand people (including a large contingent of HBS students) are moving to the thumping beat of a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
is a big misconception a lot of people have. People assume that because, the United States, we have high school, college basketball, then it leads to the pros, that the same system is in effect pretty much throughout the world. Well,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Baldwin and Dean Kim Clark remind readers in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Baldwin and Clark are intrigued by the underlying structure of these human-designed products and systems and the ways in which they evolve... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
could bring. The reason we eventually let the government take back the lead on this rather than pursue it as a commercial effort is that... Ultimately, the cost of the overall system was still going to be in the billions of dollars. And... View Details