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16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

couldn't still succeed, says John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health. The sheer scope of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

02 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

creating offices with the specific task of promoting water innovation. “Singapore has roughly the same GDP as just Los Angeles alone. Yet, since 2002, the country has spent over $670 million in over six hundred water projects throughout... View Details

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

paradox in a recent paper called "Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma," an early draft of which was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2006 Academy of Management Conference and the 2005 Babson-Kauffman... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

09 Jan 2020
News

Your Whole Self

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) is managing director at executive coaching firm Paravis Partners, and she’s been hearing some consistent themes in the trenches these... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

September 2021 Alumni Books

These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2018
News

More Than a Game

Above: photo by Peter Taylor Fernando Aguirre (PPL 2009) owns the Erie SeaWolves minor league baseball team, and he runs it with the same management strategies he employed during his career in consumer goods. One is a hands-on approach:... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 1997
News

Short Takes

companies gain flexibility in the range of projects they may undertake. "Hiring outside contractors is a way for managers to access the talent they need to get the work done," says Bradach. Independent... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

disappointed. I said, “Oh my gosh, another segregated situation.” I thought that Harvard had run an unfair game of projecting itself as being so liberal. I associated the School with the Kennedy brothers and what they were trying to... View Details

23 Dec 2009
News

In the Zone

Program, which offers a select group of graduating MBAs the opportunity to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. Now entering her third year at HCZ,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

solving the problem was of critical importance for the firm, management decided to break from convention and the disclose the specifics of the problem to a large group of unknown "outside" scientists requesting a solution in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

2getthere, and Cabintaxi. In the past decade PRT projects been weighed for sites as diverse as the docklands in Cardiff, Wales; the airport-to-town route of Ciampino, Italy; and the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. We... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

01 Dec 1998
News

Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis

economic environment were not. What were their management practices and strategies? "When we heard the news, my research associate and I just looked at each other and shook our heads." "When we heard the news, my research associate and I... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

the CEOs of Hershey, General Motors, Nvidia, and Amazon during earnings conference calls against AI-generated responses to the same questions: Hershey CEO: “We’ve continued to invest in capacity in brands and businesses across the View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

leaves a set of information-rich trades by "opportunistic" insiders that contain all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic traders yields value-weighted... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

Better, Cheaper" program as the culprit. But Harvard Business School professor Alan D. MacCormack says the failure was more about organizational execution. Key concepts include: Although individual projects fail, the root cause may... View Details

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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising