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Laura Mackay
(e.g., new delivery models, digital health, etc.) is front and center. The level of access to thought leaders in the community and alumni network, as well as to entrepreneurs and established companies driving the latest insights and... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
embarrassing—it can hurt your career. Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart DiscriminationPoor design decisions contribute to racial discrimination on many online platforms. Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
conditions, people are scrambling and realizing that it's tough to refinance their debts. For instance, a landlord of an apartment building in Bangalore has a short -term loan in dollars that is being serviced or paid for in rupee... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees. While the manual was written... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
service academies has influenced how leadership is taught at the School. HBS faculty, students, and alumni with military backgrounds have played important roles in contributing to the transformative nature of the HBS experience. With... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
government and not thought much about. There seems to be an increasing feeling among consumers that much of this ended with the deregulation and privatization of these industries. According to neocritics of deregulation, for example, we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
and services to consumers over 50 in the United Kingdom. The first three to six months, almost everybody who arrives at HBS is convinced that the admissions office must have made a mistake, that they’re going to get caught out. If you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)
counselor in Evanston, Illinois, suggested I apply for a ROTC scholarship, I thought she was crazy. I was raised with the ideal of service to others, but I was a woman. I had blond hair. I lived in the suburbs. I was also a three-sport... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created by election days falling on weekdays.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
The passing on June 28 of Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia at 92, after a 51-year career in the Senate, triggered an outpouring of remembrances, positive and negative, of his long service on Capitol Hill. Serving in a variety of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a financial View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)
“You can’t just give orders in business.” —Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Gene Markowski (MBA 1973) served as an Army Huey helicopter pilot in Vietnam and received the Distinguished Flying Cross and many other honors for heroic action. He retired from a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Unsung Hero
On September 11, 2001, Celina Realuyo (MBA 2000), a private banker at Goldman Sachs in London, watched in horror on her office TV as the attacks in New York City and Washington unfolded. A former U.S. Foreign Service officer who had... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Having a Ball
and social service organizations, Stafford, who grew up as one of twelve children of a Baptist minister, invited his guests from all over the country and provided beauty treatments and formal evening wear for two gala balls he organized... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in Costa Rican public... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
artifacts from longtime professor Georges Doriot (MBA 1922), considered the father of venture capitalism: the original 1957 business plan for Digital Equipment Corporation. Baker Bloomberg’s iconic cupola enjoyed a refresh with new... View Details
Keywords: Georges F. Doriot
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
courage, about communities of underestimated women who rise to the moment in service to something greater. What was different with Daughters was the global implications of the story. You have a group of women fighting terrorists, as the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
disappointment and dissatisfaction? And yet, the aging workforces of developed countries around the world have created long-term fiscal challenges that are forcing their governments to address this issue now. Take the situation in the... View Details