by Malcolm Baker - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
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Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management

general manager. The project came about after Garvin's search for teaching materials on the distinction between the job of a general manager and that of a senior functional manager yielded "next to nothing." Acting on a suggestion from the research staff at View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend

COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Feb 2020
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@Soldiers Field

videos, webinars, and podcasts. (photo by Susan Young) LEAD INVESTORS Hamilton James (MBA 1975), Tricia Glynn (MBA 2008), Jim Breyer (MBA 1987), and Dayna Grayson (MBA 2006) delivered keynote addresses at February’s 26th annual Venture... View Details

18 Mar 2021
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Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition

National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was named one of "Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years" by PBS. Mr. George received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University,... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Father of Modern Management by Bob Buford (OPM 2, 1977) (Worthy Publishing) Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) and Stephen View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Jeff Cruikshank

Baker and the founding of the School was so well received by alumni that it led to a book-length history of the School that I had the privilege of writing. Special issues on entrepreneurship, alumni in... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank

01 Apr 2001
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Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer

who applied to the School on a lark, accepted a position at Bain & Company after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar. She and a Bain partner later wrote an article about leadership styles and submitted it to the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 May 2015
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Alumni in Paris Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

evening featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan (MBA 1983), faculty chair of the HBS Campaign, Senior Associate Dean for External Relations, and the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice in... View Details

19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

time when Professor Malcolm McNair invited him to do so, despite Walter not having yet been appointed assistant professor at least that is the way I remember my attendance that day in the second-year elective course, Retailing. I was... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
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HBS Celebrates Launch of New Legacy Society

Cindy Whitehead (center), the widow of the late John Whitehead, with event hosts Beth (MBA 1984) and Mike (MBA 1982) Fascitelli. (photo by Dana Maxson) Cindy Whitehead (center), the widow of the late John Whitehead, with event hosts Beth... View Details

01 Aug 2002
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Class Day & Commencement

Skies were overcast on the afternoon of June 5 but that didn't faze this year's 911 graduating MBAs who, along with their families and friends, gathered on Baker Lawn to celebrate Class Day 2002. High spirits remained undampened as... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

turning by the end of the 1950s. A 1959 article informed readers that women would be allowed to attend the School as second-year MBA students and doctoral candidates. "It is conceivable that a few young women would see good reason for... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2017
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Better Hiring Through Brain Science

Illustrations by Marcos Chin Illustrations by Marcos Chin Hiring companies employ Pymetrics to source additional talent and filter massive applicant pools as well as to boost retention and serve as a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Feb 2001
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Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future

Volunteer Conference, there it was, staring me in the face: a case. Led by Professor Howard Stevenson, the Saturday morning session was to be a discussion on "HBS: At the Crossroads?" This wasn't some lightweight two-page case, either. It... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; alumni; volunteers; conferences; cases; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

Healthy Buildings John Macomber and the Harvard Chan School’s Joe Allen published a new book, Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, and gave a virtual talk sponsored by View Details

01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

Silicon Valley startup: “We want to bring a scaled-up version of the blockchain application to market by the end of the year.” From Baker Library: Blockchain is an innovative and complex technological... View Details