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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
How did we get into this mess, and how do we fix it? Those were the key questions that three separate expert panels — two convened by HBS and one by Harvard University — addressed for standing-room-only...
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- 20 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture
In the words of David Eisen (MBA 2001), CEO of the rapidly growing vegan food-maker Plant Snacks, “there’s probably nothing more important for your everyday behavior—as a person, and as a steward for your household—than what you consume....
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- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
Photos by David Kelly Crow Many women hit a point in their career when they are unsure of which path to take next or even how to move ahead. For some, that inflection point comes mid-career or after a...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
by $100 billion spent annually on management consulting and training. Yet that message doesn’t always get to the people who need it most: fewer than half of public-facing employees are well versed in these grand strategic ideas when it...
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
Charting a Path, Point by Point "I spend my days working with a small, entrepreneurial team helping to build companies that are working to solve some of the most pressing challenges we face in terms of energy and the environment." View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
particularly pro-development." Founded in 2004, Helios has a number of prominent investors, including George Soros, Madeleine Albright, Jacob Rothschild, and David Bonderman. That's due in no small measure to Helios's success and to...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
will help strengthen the School’s long tradition of world-class teaching. The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, scheduled to open this fall, will augment the already established HBS system of faculty-to-faculty mentoring View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
Sam Hayes and David Mullins were engaging and fun. Jim Ware taught us organizational behavior and given how important this subject is and how it affects what I do today, I should have taken more of those types of classes. Fifteen years...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
MeraDoctor, a consultation-by-telephone business staffed 24 hours a day by eight licensed physicians. A for-profit company that charges subscribers a monthly fee of 100 rupees (about $2) for unlimited consultations for up to six household...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
DATAR AND GARVIN: Listen to "Rethinking the MBA" Virtual Learning Series phone call (mp3) If you are curious about the future of business education, look no further than the new book Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press), View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Trap Tales: Outsmarting the 7 Hidden Obstacles to Success by David M.R. Covey (MBA 1994) and Stephan M. Mardyks (Wiley) This book is a guide to avoiding the seven obstacles to success that ensnare people...
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- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
The 2018 New Venture Competition started last fall with 360 teams. By Wednesday, April 18, just 12 teams—four finalists from each of the Alumni, Student Social Enterprise, and Student Business tracks—were left standing, vying for $315,000...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
Latin America's woes and achievements — from the Argentine economic crisis to a host of business success stories — were the focus of “Sources of Competitive Advantage in Latin America,” held March 2 at HBS. The eighth annual Latin American Business Conference,...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton Abstract Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
The final stages of one of the most significant events in Asia this century Hong Kong's transformation from British colony to Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China will be witnessed firsthand by attendees of the...
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Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
From resolving a labor dispute, to orchestrating a merger, to getting a new company off the ground, negotiation plays a vital role in nearly every facet of business. In a course note titled "Negotiation Analysis: Summary Framework and Examples," HBS professor James K....
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Anita M. Harris
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Image by John Weber Related Links Featured research: "Think Customers Hate Waiting? Not so Fast..." Read Director John Korn's blog Did you know? HBS alumni include... As an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, Modupe Akinola...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
develop new strategies to ease the impact of plant shutdowns, layoffs, military-base closings, and other dislocations by discerning areas of opportunity amid adversity and trying to stimulate entrepreneurial activity around them using...
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- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
resource allocation lead to strategy failures? Can operations become a competitive advantage? Can "lean" Productions Methods Improve Service Industries? Bringing 'Lean' Principles to Service Industries Toyota and other top manufacturing companies have embraced,...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
the sale of insurance products). Moreover, the use of CLV information did not have a negative impact on pricing, as some of the literature suggests, nor on default risk, indicating that managers increased sales to more profitable customers View Details
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Sean Silverthorne