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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management control, Herzlinger made the case... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
network is designed, built, and curated? How could these changes affect the School’s interaction with the business community? One hundred years ago, HBS figured out how to talk to companies, learn their secrets, and write cases to teach... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
"workaholic," Bertarelli is determined to stay on top of new management trends. His company was the subject of a 1995 HBS case study, and one of the reasons Bertarelli took time out of his hectic schedule to attend his reunion was to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
Levitt predicted pervasive standardization, Ghemawat’s paper, “Global Product Standardization? A Case Study and a Model,” shows current reality to be otherwise. Ghemawat has found that a number of industries that seem ripe for strategies... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
affiliate, the Civic Capital Corporation, founded and became the overseer of an operation called ReSTART Central. ReSTART assigns business-savvy volunteers to work with donors and to act as troubleshooting case workers to help small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
develop new case materials or to tailor existing materials, teaching plans, or class discussions to address the tragedy and its aftermath; HBS-sponsored panel discussions on topics such as the economic impact of the tragedy,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980)... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
timely faculty-led sessions on the crucial theme of Managing Through Crisis, which brought together nearly 10,000 alumni from around the world. The series was especially notable because our alumni were able to benefit, in real time, from HBS faculty insights and their... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
reading a case between serving cocktails, an Executive Education participant who was a CEO in retail gave Jackson a tip that would change her future. "He told me that anyone who worked as hard as I did was made for retail," she recalls.... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
on the front. But the actual shea-butter content can be less than 10 percent—in some cases less than one percent—relative to 64 percent for Mother’s Shea and more than 80 percent for Eu’Genia.” Consumers and retailers have noted the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
produces great results in some cases is that when there’s a winner-take-all or a winner-take-most market, the first company to achieve critical scale becomes the enduring market leader. It ends up becoming what we call a Glengarry Glen... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
pharmaceuticals are the primary choice,” says Bennet. “But in most cases they’re not really a miracle” but a temporary reprieve. Bennet notes that while millions of patients suffer from psychiatric disorders, many don’t know that deep... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
contribute to their own commercial interests, says HBS associate professor Debora L. Spar in her article "The Spotlight and the Bottom Line," which appeared last spring in Foreign Affairs. Citing high-profile cases in which large U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
resources than government. The enthusiasm of private parties for various approaches to solving social problems needs to be tempered by an overall concern for the interests of society. Schell: I think that in almost every case the free... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
organization?" Garvin answers these questions with practical guidelines and a wealth of real-life examples. He uses detailed case studies to illustrate successful learning processes at organizations such as Xerox, L.L. Bean, the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
included fax numbers. Cell phones did exist, but they were rare, heavy as a brick, and available only to a privileged few. States — and in some cases entire U.S. regions — had just one area code. Numbers-crunching was done by hand with an... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
what it your reaction to something like that? Dubinsky: Of course I hear that concern. I think it's expressed frequently and it's true. AI will eliminate some jobs. It will create others. And this indeed has been the case in technology... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
wish we could buy more stuff from you.’ As so often happens with a start-up, you have one idea, which is enough to get a business going, and then other ideas come to you. In this case the idea came from our customers, which is a good way... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
this world,” she says. “There should be no monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
identify and develop solutions to student concerns. One result of Dobron's team-oriented approach was the creation of the first student-led case, "HBS Student Association 1995-1996 (A): The Soul of an Old Machine." Conceived and written by Dobron and classmates J.B.... View Details