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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
leadership. (photograph courtesy Conference Board) Conference Board president Richard Cavanagh (MBA '70): elevating and honoring corporate leadership. (photograph courtesy Conference Board) Clinton wanted the award to pay tribute to the memory of View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
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Charter Supporter
learning experience,” she said), briefly retired in her mid-30s for a stint as a snowboard bum in Colorado, and headed up Wisconsin’s Commerce Department as Secretary in Governor Jim Doyle’s administration. In addition, she worked in...
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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
"It is difficult to conceive of a child as commerce," writes Harvard Business School professor Debora L. Spar in her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. In fact, baby...
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
political and economic factors affecting business, mainly between 1914 and 1932. Herman L. Dillingham Papers Herman L. Dillingham's Photograph Album No. 2, page 90, 1913 View Collection Herman Louis Dillingham was appointed secretary of a Boston Chamber of View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
application of ‘mining’ e-wastes. WikiPay is a proprietary mobile and online commerce platform that facilities money transfer, payment applications and mobile marketing via SMS through its website (www.wikipay.com) and mobile site...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
commerce came from consumers and small businesses; nine months later, 80 percent of that business was from large to midsized companies and from the federal government. "We now have about 100 million visitors a year to our Web site and we...
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- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
2009). He has taught a variety of MBA courses, including the second-year electives Business at the Base of the Pyramid and Customers, Commerce and Society: Business Value and the Private Creation of Social Value. Rangan agreed to take...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
experience—ideally, designing and/or developing technology-intensive products.” Is there a competitive advantage to pursuing a degree program like this in Boston? “Boston ranked first among 25 U.S. cities in a study conducted by global incubator 1776 and the U.S....
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- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
food products, he had traveled frequently on business to the USSR and other Central and East European countries in the Soviet Bloc, thus gaining a knowledge of Soviet-style commerce few other Westerners could claim. Between 1985 and 1992,...
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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
New MBA Elective Commerce and Society is introduced. 2006 New MBA Elective Business at the Base of the Pyramid is introduced. 2005 HBS-led forum, Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches, brings together 120 academics and...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
will also strengthen collaboration by helping managers and scientists understand each other’s perspectives—especially regarding language, goals, expectations, and timelines—so that they can reconcile the needs of commerce and science....
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Commerce and Strategy panel at the 2001 Global Alumni Conference. He told alumni that fighting against a larger, stronger rival means not playing the game that your opponents want you to play. "Instead, figure out a different way to...
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by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
"Since well before biblical times, the basic unit of commerce has been the family," explains HBS senior lecturer John A. Davis, coauthor of Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business, who helped create the program....
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- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Commerce to help implement technical assistance programs focusing on energy in over 30 countries. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, expanding a microfinance institution and launching a women’s textile cooperative....
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
prove altogether seamless. Barbara Hackman Franklin, (MBA 1964) who later became U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1992 to 1993, remembered, "HBS was a real culture shock. Some faculty were opposed to having women in the classroom. So were...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
philosophical fit was there, he felt, even if it left many scratching their heads. Currently taught by Marquis in the MBA elective course Commerce and Society, the case details Burt’s Bees’ pioneering initiative to formalize and...
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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
commerce and consumption.” 16 Recognizing his reputation as an extraordinary portraitist and the prestige his name could lend to commercial work, the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency hired Steichen in 1923, the same year he became...
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- 26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
in 15 African countries 2012 Launches India’s first 4G service 2013 Elected Vice Chair, International Chamber of Commerce 2014 Bharti’s Airtel launches 4G in Africa Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises With a magnetic smile, an...
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Susan Young
- 24 Oct 2013
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Searching for a Better Society
business from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Grenoble in 1992. Following military service, he took a consulting position with Bossard Consultants, a Zurich, Switzerland-based firm that had him working with technology clients...
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- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
and recovering from a crisis, increasing close rates, the efficiency of a sales model, and its segment focus are strategic issues, not only sales management tasks. Consider: when commerce resumes, what’s the impact on your business from...
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by Frank V. Cespedes