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Behrad Mahdi

efforts and provide incentives." Seeking a more sustainable leadership experience, he became a special assistant to the founders of City Year. Learning leadership through regular practice "Working at the national level,"... View Details

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Videos - Advancing Racial Equity

Resources Videos Managing Diversity Speaker Series Professor Jim Cash: Basketball then and now Professor Jim Cash: Basketball then and now 16 Oct 2020 Professor Cash talks about the differences in society’s treatment of Black players like... View Details

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

IR group, the cases document how both companies share many best practices in IR principles, such as the goal of getting managers directly in contact with investors, the need for consistency in reporting over... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

22 Jul 2015
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Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs

them really became a full-time career.” This was in the 1990s, when Gould had a management position in marketing and strategy at Reuters and before family-friendly HR policies, such as job-sharing, had caught on with many companies. She... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Goldman Sachs; Reuters; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

For example, ads for Viagra, Prozac, and Allegra are seemingly everywhere, and have helped create powerful brands. Of course, this practice gives rise to much controversy. Does direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) make health consumers... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

05 Apr 2021
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Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

senior corporate manager and a highly regarded teacher of future leaders. He cites, for example, lessons he learned working with former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack. Among other things, they included the abilities to listen,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission

responsibilities in three areas: 1) project management of institutional strategic priorities, including revamping the Boston Ballet website, an effort coordinated among staff and executive leaders across the organization; 2) support for... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Stephanie Atiase

HBS came in the summer before her senior year of college, when she arrived on campus as part of the Summer Venture in Management Program. "I realized HBS was a place where I could augment my undergraduate studies in business – and... View Details

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Events - Advancing Racial Equity

Events Events Managing Diversity Speaker Series The “Managing Diversity” speaker series brings together leading scholars and business leaders in a series of conversations on the impact of systemic racism in business and in society, the... View Details

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

In the high-tech industry, it's common practice for a governing body to develop technical standards for any given technology. The goal is to promote widespread adoption and compatibility among various devices. The Bluetooth standard lets... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

16 Jan 2020
News

Hitting the High Notes

of Lynn Harrell, which includes a supporting cast of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, John Williams, André Previn, and Anne-Sophie Mutter. Chicago Alumni Get Insight on Creating a Magnetic Culture Human Capital Management expert Kevin Sheridan... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs

Organization:Annie McMullen, Harvard Business School Recruiter, University Relations Team, Goldman Sachs Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment View Details

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Michael Son

asphalt that could be applied without heating, Mike found market adoption difficult. "Let's just say I faced ‘entrenched interests,'" Mike says, warily. "The experience exposed me to the real world — of practical things you... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

paramount. "When you went to Harvard Business School, we really knew what we were talking about," he told alumni. "But in the new economy, just about everything we accepted about business is being questioned." Nolan, an expert on general View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

07 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

is a single-payer system.) In other industries, he says, complexity that doesn’t add value is whittled away through competition. “In health care there’s not a lot of competition that extinguishes bad practice, so bad practice can persist... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader

business fundamentals. What’s your advice to new CEOs? First, affirm or reaffirm the mission of the company, and reaffirm its fundamental values. Commit yourself and your management team to practice those... View Details

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

January–February 2013
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Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities

By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn

We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations... View Details

Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Business Growth and Maturation; Profit; Local Range; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business Processes; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trends; Management Practices and Processes; United States

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01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

fully answered in advance. "Executives from each side may have different assumptions about which strategy and management practices will be best for the new company," Beer says. "These issues are often hidden... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1977 A.B., Visual Studies (Film) LESSONS FROM HBS “Having seen that ninety bright minds in an... View Details

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