Quality Of Human Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

investing in space is going to take off even more? What do you think needs to happen, if anything, before that occurs? Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux: That's a really interesting question because on one hand there is an enormous amount of... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher by Ann Lee (MBA 1995) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in human rights, Lee details the policies and practices—in... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

and enhancement of the student residential experience, and a successful $500 million capital campaign that included the opening of the Spangler and Rock Centers, the... View Details

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

01 Sep 2009
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Alumni Books

successful navigation of turbulent markets will require a mastery of the core skills of corporate finance. This book focuses on essential valuation methodologies for public and... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand

Robert Sullivan (MBA ’61). “Levitt made me a convert. He taught that marketing is the guts of any business, that it’s critical to understanding the connection between sales, manufacturing, finance, human... View Details

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

01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built

different attitude from what most people had. To boost the status of entrepreneurial study, I knew I had to get someone whose credentials, integrity, human qualities, and values were unimpeachable. Howard... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas

Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education... View Details

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

01 Jun 2009
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IXP 2009

Now in its third year, the Immersion Experience Program offered nine topics and destinations to students in 2009 (see complete list below), six in 2008, and three in 2007. “Faculty involved in the IXP consistently come back excited about the educational View Details

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

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. The Business Roundtable was no less emphatic. “This is an unprecedented preemption of state corporate law... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

30 Jan 2018
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Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson. The HBS cohort includes: Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005), president and CEO of Reliance Methods, a consulting firm that provides human capital... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

the key to a high-performing organization, and it’s at the core of the Lincoln Electric case,” agrees Professor Tom DeLong. In his course Managing Human Capital, DeLong challenges his students’ assumptions... View Details

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

20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

in their free time seemed too much like work, so we shifted to companies allowing employees to work on company time. We also began working with companies to align efforts to their core human capital and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

companies, industries, and human capabilities. Examples of the fusion technique for high-value, radical innovation are presented in this unique collection of stories about... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

Fung is also an outstanding ambassador for Hong Kong in his role as chairman of the territory's Trade Development Council. "The transition is going as well as anybody expected," Fung said. "The economic numbers are good, and there is... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

"Our goal is to provide products and services that heal and uplift humanity while also generating healthy profits," he says. The Sikh lifestyle encourages daily yoga, meditation, and prayer; religious tolerance; and "recognizing the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Feb 1998
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New Releases

Modern Capitalism is used in the acclaimed new MBA Foundations course in international business history. "At the most basic level, capitalism is best understood as an expression View Details