Filter Results
:
(13,802)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(13,802)
- People (75)
- News (3,598)
- Research (8,270)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (38)
- Faculty Publications (6,830)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(13,802)
- People (75)
- News (3,598)
- Research (8,270)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (38)
- Faculty Publications (6,830)
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
appeared last June on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Afterward, so many viewers logged on to the organization’s Web site that it crashed. Once the site was back up, seven hundred New York City teachers posted new project proposals and eight hundred individuals from 48 View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
planet at the moment. It is since every dean, every provost, every president particularly outside of the United States has an aspiration, in a university more than just a college, an aspiration to be ranked...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
parenting popular in the United States and Europe. She also offers a few clever tips, such as how Russian babies are potty trained well before the age of two, and how Russian mothers easily get their young...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
instead of bringing us together” (Reuters, December 9, 2009). Immelt went on to say that leaders “share a common responsibility to narrow the gap between the weak and the strong. I have taken on the challenge to increase manufacturing jobs in the View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
nonbanks to sell loans and re-lend the cash proceeds multiple times. The volume of new issues of securitized loans has fallen off a cliff, from $100 billion a month in 2006 to almost zero at the end of 2008. To revive the process of securitizing loans, the View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
began on a blind date at the Army–Navy game in 1967, endured the long deployments of his early career and yielded two sons, both of whom chose to follow in their father’s footsteps and attend the United View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- Web
Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Steel. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, 1950. Douglas A. Fisher. Steel Making in America. New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1949. Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences: Body...
View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM...
View Details
Keywords:
Manufacturing
- Portrait Project
Michael Nkansah
that I may yet owe death a life. I was never a pan-African before that day—my mind teemed with tired tales from my father of Nkrumah's utopian vision. But capitalism could well succeed where decades of post-independence politics failed—in View Details
- Portrait Project
Mark Kahn
I plan to repay my debts, for I live a highly-leveraged life. I owe a debt to the United States, which saved my family from the clutches of the Wehrmacht. I owe a debt to the political wards of Philadelphia, from which I learned the best...
View Details
- Portrait Project
John Paul Andree
If I hit that water, I’ll be dead within five minutes. I am flying my last mission on my last deployment before starting HBS, hundreds of miles into the freezing North Atlantic Ocean on my way back to the United States. Fuel pressure is...
View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
of dye When synthetic dyes first hit the market, there was not yet any federal or state regulation of food coloring techniques in the United States. As a result, more than 80 substances were utilized to dye...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Jason Flood
up-close experience of the United States’ health care system. “There were mind-boggling inefficiencies both in terms of delivery and coordination,” Jason says. “We had multiple doctors who failed to communicate to each other and ordered...
View Details
- Profile
Stephanie Atiase
Stephanie would like to be a entrepreneur—building a business that serves customers with a great product and society socially. “I believe happiness is a state of mind,” Stephanie says. “When you’re invested in being at HBS – in the cases,...
View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
TroopSwap Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA 1976), Snap-on Ed Ellison (MBA 1991), St. Johns Country Day School Veterans Day, celebrated on November 11 in the United States, is a reminder that the military, through its personnel and its philosophy,...
View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
nearly 75,000 patrons in the United States and abroad, and produced a performance and global simulcast of an opera, Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, that featured robots. In Fort Worth, he’ll be...
View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
research on the effectiveness of state systems, policy options, and the structural challenge of underemployment among graduates. Bill Kerr: As job openings consistently outnumber the unemployed, attention is focused on how the labor...
View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important attempt to span this abyss. IGOs are mandated variously to smooth economic...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
PAULSON: Sports is a tough business for ROI, but the returns to the community can be ample. Merritt Paulson (MBA ’00), owner of the minor league Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team and the United Soccer League’s Portland Timbers, is...
View Details