Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

both of which could involve governments as players. We further distinguish between strategies to play the game and strategies to shape the rules. Here too, efforts to shape,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

Profile

stood by the window and waved goodbye until he couldn’t see me anymore,” says Marcelo, who learned math alongside her older brothers. “They did not have certain expectations just because I was a girl,” she... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services

13 Oct 2015
Blog Post

LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills

career mentors who helped me navigate being at the intersection of two communities – either as allies or themselves LGBT, minorities or both. It has been these experiences that have shaped who I am and how I... View Details

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Marijk C. van der Wende Abstract— Recent geopolitical events, such as Brexit and the retreat from multilateral trade and cooperation by the USA, have created waves of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Portrait Project

Jimmy Tran

of the human spirit. At times, my questions brought my mom to uncontrollable laughter the kind of laughter only replicated by waving a feather against a toddler's foot. I hope... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

help people save a bundle, look better, feel better, and have enhanced confidence. Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise by Alan Rosling (MBA 1988) (Hachette India) A fresh View Details

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

to join all of us on the journey as we learn, and revise, and shape the experience and the definition. Justine Hong - MBA ‘19 I recently got in... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Good for Laughs

If there are jokes to be found amid the wave of corporate scandals, they’re usually on the shareholders. But hey, did you hear the one about... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

25 Aug 2014
News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

successful online marketplace Care.com. Marcelo, the fifth of six children, was raised in a tight-knit family. Her parents, who eloped in their late teens, did not fall into stereotypical gender roles. “My father was View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2012
News

Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards

the power to unleash the next wave of global growth. Kanter received second-place honors for “How Great Companies Think Differently,” which appeared in View Details

Keywords: awards

Profile

Kayode Ogunro

How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? My HBS experience played a very important role in shaping my career path. More than anything my MBA experience gave me a platform on which to explore my... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

Profile

Jake Flomenberg

experience as Co-President of the TechMedia club shape your career goals within the technology sector? My time serving the TechMedia Club was a... View Details

Keywords: Technology

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

Consulting Group's healthcare and social impact practice areas. Along the way, I learned some important lessons: Progress is not always linear or transformational. Systems have been shaped by misaligned... View Details

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Europe is seething with nationalism and racism. There are large and growing extreme right wing parties from Sweden to Greece, many of which enjoy waving Nazi flags. Fascist parties are in power in Hungary and Poland. There is a huge... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

as well as building the brand. Of course, success means that competitors might start emulating particular initiatives, and that happened in Brazil, too. But that merely raises the bar. View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

he's done so, Silk has charted fundamental changes in the advertising business—some of them well known, others that address long-standing puzzles or that challenge conventional wisdom. In a trio of papers, Silk has laid out his research... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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Fereshteh Zeineddin

needed to take the next step in my career. HBS seemed like a perfect fit because of its focus on general management, case-study teaching method, and diverse student body. How has your experience here shaped... View Details

Keywords: Retail

02 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

help think through the next wave of innovative policies that will lay the foundation for the health care industry of View Details

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

Mexico's long history with authoritarian government shaped its judicial, taxation, and property rights institutions. These institutions, the authors argue, cannot be reformed with View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding View Details

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