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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Nalls Harvard Business School Case 808-167 Barry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career-his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures—and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a young boy in a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Art Nature Business
2011 Oil on linen and wood Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2012.1 Born in Denver, Paul Jacobsen grew up in a small mountain town in Colorado in a family of artists. Largely self-taught, Jacobsen works in traditional... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
network offers help on a range of issues, Walker says, from something as simple as how to buy groceries to something as serious as the emotional stresses of displacement and change in family life. "We also meet often with international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
of the firm. There is substantial evidence for this: see Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller's book Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses. These leaders also start with the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
know each other as if they are family members. One can imagine they know where all the buttons are that can be pushed. As the case describes, they went through periods of not liking each other very much. Paul told me how other string... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey. Together with his wife and children, Feder sets off for an exotic island on a self-prescribed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
than what a family might pay in rent. “It’s a sustainable model that empowers homeowners to help themselves and others,” says Song, who also works as a volunteer on Habitat projects. “It’s possible to frame a house in one day, so you can... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
saw the virtues of more scale, yet diversified greatly into a whole range of goods including gas and electrical turbines (an area that challenged Siemens). He always thought in terms of scale, but self-consciously limited his financing practices in the interests of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
http://hbr.org/search/612033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-086 Learning Resources: A Hands-On Toy Company Deals with New Challenges and Opportunities Learning Resources is a family owned educational toy company that, by late... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
higher operations costs. Employees also more routinely accepted payroll deductions to help the families of fellow workers suffering from terminal illnesses. Southwest's operational approach to the airline industry was a curious niche... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
on the grounds that the immunity of the Catholic Church in England was granted in the Magna Carta and even in Henry's own coronation oath. A family man, More enjoyed his life and was a loving father and devoted husband. Finally, of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Haryopratomo: I don't think it's just Silicon Valley against the world or frontier markets. I actually think every country has a slightly different culture and you have to embrace what is strong about their culture. Indonesia has always been a very communal-type market... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
it. I just left him laying there. I turned it into a horrible person, I guess. My name is Devin. I started doing meth when I was 10 years old. Meth affected my friendship with him pretty bad. He won't talk to me any more. Me and my brothers don't talk. Me and my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
for low-income individuals and families may be workable and politically acceptable at the national level.” MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Lynne Gassiraro, who recently had thyroid cancer surgery and other ailments requiring the care of specialists,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
in a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic, and then followed up with regular telephone calls to coordinate counseling, medications, and family support. Overall, outpatient costs went up 21 percent, but inpatient costs went down 74 percent.... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
only treatments are maintenance dialysis and kidney transplantation. The former requires visits to a treatment center for at least 12 hours a week, while a transplant—from either a living family member or a matching deceased donor—can... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
students to understand three levels of analysis: households, businesses, and the broad political economy. We begin with individuals and households. It's shocking to me how little we think about the family in the MBA Program. By the time... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Pride Alumni Association is expanding its slate of LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums after the successful launch of two initial forums in 2021 sparked broader interest among its members. Akin to having a personal board of directors, HBS Alumni Forums... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley