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16 Nov 2015
News

Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

that way.” After graduating, he spent a decade at the Hawaii-based Castle & Cooke, which was at that time a large agriculture firm that included Dole Food Company. Sprinkles began in the seafood division at Castle & Cooke’s San Francisco... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2002
News

HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

conferences, held in a different U.S. city each year, have provided access to an impressive roster of corporate executives and public-sector officials, often drawn from the host city's leading industries and institutions. Observed HBSAAA... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

will learn about the challenges of entrepreneurship and undertaking new projects. Herrera Ronco teaches that entrepreneurship is a path to plenty and offers a real possibility to build a more prosperous and humane society. A Geophysicist’s Memoir: View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

expertise on how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the pandemic. For example, Lauren Cohen observed: “Technology will be most powerfully utilized . . . by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more... View Details

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

challenges that thinking. The study examined how well companies performed 18 core management practices. It found vast differences in how they execute basic tasks like setting targets, running operations, and grooming talent, and that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

According to Jill H. Fadule, managing director of MBA Admissions, two international students - one from France and one from China - were among the School's inaugural class of approximately 25. Since that time, thousands of international students have participated in... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

organization profits. Order the book: http://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Calls-Twelve-Stories-Decisions/dp/142215811X From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival Authors:Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the exchange of cyberattack data... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Dec 2015
News

Ink

column was a way to explore the link between a business leader’s workspace and the culture of his or her organization. Along the way, Raje—former chief executive of BP Ergo, her family’s office furniture business—featured the hotel... View Details

02 Mar 2015
News

To Market, To Market

men—who had gone abroad in search of work—are now reuniting with their families. “This is changing lives, and I love it, “says Ferrari, a former Coca Cola marketing executive who also spent several years... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

to be the best version of themselves. Indeed, Rodríguez’s colleagues at Gentera—a financial services firm focused on underserved communities—can’t imagine running the firm without his involvement. Working in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2008
News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

"We're trying to be the neighborhood store," said Neel Raheja, executive director of the Shoppers' Stop chain of department stores. Today the chain employs 1,500 at 14 stores and has ambitious plans to expand to 25 locations by... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

06 May 2019
News

Startup Talk in Chicago

Clubs News Clubs News “For entrepreneurs to succeed, they must stay humble.” This was just one of the takeaways from the HBS Club of Chicago’s (HBSCC) recent conversation with Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of investment firm PSP... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

execute such campaigns? According to HBS professor Alvin J. Silk and MIT professor Ernst R. Berndt, "The long-run cost function for firms in the global advertising and marketing services business is... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

01 Sep 2005
News

Trouble in Mouse Land

for Eisner’s reelection to the board. “I was looking for a case about executive compensation and corporate governance,” says Beaulieu, who teaches the elective Coordination, Control, and Management of Organizations (CCMO). “I wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

a board of directors as you create and grow your company. Others will join private equity or venture capital firms where you will serve on the boards of the firm’s portfolio companies. Still others will be consultants or advisors to... View Details

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at... View Details