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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and the Danaher case helps me... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
join the conversation as Moss asks the class to consider possible solutions to these problems. “What does James Madison think?” he asks, reminding the class that this is 1787. This isn’t a question of what a student thinks, from her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
health. “We’d all had experiences that left us feeling that the current health care system wasn’t serving us, as women,” Keshani says. The name Seven Starling was inspired by the flocking behavior of starlings. By following their seven... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to bolster a stressed primary care... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks... 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
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus
Ignatius (AMP 191, 2016), chief editor of Harvard Business Review. The 509-foot-long Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is the fifth of 14 ships under construction for the Navy. It is equipped with an Aegis Combat System and configured as a... 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... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
concerned about what I should do with my life. I knew I wanted a career in business, but it wasn't until I was at HBS that I grasped that business could be a force for good in society. We were constantly reminded of the importance of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Rent Out Your Ride
service with Web site sign-up and programmed cards that provide members with access to owners’ vehicles in home driveways or parking lots. Clark says that a key ingredient is personalizing the service: Renters are reminded that they are... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
where you stand on the political aisle, the acrimony inherent in a two-party system was disheartening at times. So if politics was my first love, entertainment and media is my second—specifically film and television. I was drawn to that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources
raise alumni awareness of continuing education options and proposed recommendations to make those options more accessible and relevant. Online Connections — served as a sounding board and test user group for the new, enhanced alumni directory. Volunteers — developed a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
challenge ahead is to create a system that maintains and shares stable prosperity and economic growth equitably and globally. “Today,” he said, “we are being reminded of Keynes’s famous insight, that the... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
hope that we do recognize how important they are. The system is still working. And it's thanks to the working class.” “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
report. But at least one HBS graduate needed no reminder of the environmental devastation caused by the tragic explosion. He had already become part of the solution. Scott C. Smith (MBA ’91) is president and CEO of Cellect Technologies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
there? SR: A lot of my work is on earlier periods, when trade wars were literally wars—when the English, say, set out to blow the Dutch out of the water, and they did. We aren’t in that world anymore, but it is a useful reminder of how... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Michael Fieldhouse (AMP 177, 2009) ran past the Anderson Memorial Bridge every morning and took note of the sentiments affixed to its parapet: May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, be an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
a New Yorker. In the business world, Hannezo predicted that synergies will continue to develop between Europe and the United States, thanks to a shared system of values and a wealth of talent on both sides of the Atlantic. "Together, we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
time. Yes, that’s right — we have to sell a huge number of items to generate that figure. Our average price works out to be about 80 cents because we also price many items at well under a buck, so we sell around 1.5 billion items annually. It really is a... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
Governance, Adapting to a Changing Landscape, Equity and Inclusion in Action, and Partnering for Systemic Change—over four days of virtual panel discussions and case studies, and featured insights from an array of HBS faculty, alumni,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley