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- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
system clash with the digital age, and how to take action. Presenting examples of companies already making a difference, the authors show how business must serve both as innovator and activist, developing corporate strategies that effect...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also considered how decision-making, structure, and information...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 09 Jan 2020
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Advancing Change
haven’t they been solved? My answer, in part, is that we need new approaches and new solutions. We need advanced leaders who are focused on the entire ecosystem, not one organization. We need people who think outside the building. Systems...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
electronic-mail communication. Building on the knowledge gained from that project and from the use of personal computers in a few carefully selected MBA courses, the School moved in the mid-1980s to recommend strongly that students use...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall
these systems, however, access to drugs, devices, or treatments is more limited than we enjoy in the United States. Australia’s system is more specific about linking diagnostics to therapies; the country doesn’t just View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
systemic challenges that prevent Congress from fulfilling its duties as an independent and coequal branch of government. JB Lyon (MBA 1996), codirector Reform Elections Now was formed by HBS alumni with a mission to View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
revise rules that make it possible today for rogue legislators to hold up bills that an overwhelming majority of citizens want. Term limits are Braun’s number one recommendation for constructive systemic...
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Deb Blagg
- 01 Sep 2016
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Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
member and then plan for it to happen via networking and repositioning your career on your résumé. Part of the problem is not with the qualifications or networking skills of people who want to be board members. It is about how few spots are open and how random the...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
HBS Working Knowledge Web site (www.hbsworking knowledge.hbs.edu). In particular, it recommended adopting an aggressive strategy for promoting the site. Ideally, the committee would like to see more hands-on computer training for alumni,...
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Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Mar 2009
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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...
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- 02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
shocks in the system like the one we saw earlier this year.” How has the pandemic impacted the people you serve and how are you and the organization helping address these challenges? “We are serving more people than ever before, which...
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- 20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online
degree in Russian literature from Harvard. The colonel offered to write a letter of recommendation for Hall, but only if it was addressed to Harvard Business School. "I told him I couldn't see myself at Harvard. I was in a war zone, and I...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
sells out by April 1870. “Worth nothing was wealthy before the war but was ruined by the war. Can’t recommend him for credit,” reads a July 1873 report. A year later, the final words: “Little credit no means business quite small.”[1]...
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix...
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Deborah Blagg
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and costs. I don’t know what our energy system will look like in the future, but the future will be better than we can imagine because technology is going to improve, and the rate of improvement is going to be faster than anything we’ve...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
enrolled at Penn State where he majored in economics and took a couple of courses from Lawrence Fouraker, who was an economics professor there. “Fouraker wrote me a letter of recommendation to HBS while unbeknownst to me, he was about to...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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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...
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- 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup
the heart once you’ve gone and assessed those types of things. When I get calls from like venture capitalists or other people who might want to invest in some of my alumni, the easiest reference checks that I find that I can make, the easiest View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
management's focus extends beyond strategy, structure, and systems to purpose, processes, and people. All of the restructuring, reengineering, downsizing, and delayering that has occurred during the last decade, Bartlett attests, is the...
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Nancy O. Perry