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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Services Inc. — and play fast-pitch softball for the defending national champions, the Raybestos Cardinals. That team drew me to Connecticut as much as the fact that the state was a good place to start a health plan. Those of us who set... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
side-by-side with people from all walks of life. Choosing to serve as an Officer in the United States Navy was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: I am the man I am today because... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Harvard University. For more information, please visit the program's website or reach out to the program director, Jane Unrue. Negotiating with Vladimir Putin: Video Advice from Five Former U.S. Secretaries of State HBS professor James K.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
education system that's very unequal across the United States. I you're born into a low-income household or you're born into poverty, it is dramatically harder for you to reach your full potential in the American education system. “Teach... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
the major issues you are thinking about? A: We are at the doorstep of a transformation of residential mortgage finance in the United States. During the past year, over 90 percent of all mortgages have been supported/insured/securitized by... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52650 Reinventing the American Wine Industry: Marketing Strategies and the Construction of Wine Culture By: Hisano, Ai Abstract—This working paper examines the remarkable growth of wine consumption in the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
managers publicly acknowledge the need to explore new businesses and markets, the claims of established businesses on company resources almost always come first, especially when times are hard. When top teams allow the tension between core and speculative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Whaling Ventures Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter AkinsHarvard Business School Case 813-086 : Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the United States, this tension is symbolized by the proverbial conflicts between Wall Street and Main Street.” For HBS professors to be able to contribute to solving the global economic crisis, they must think beyond the system that... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
demonstrate the catalytic role of committed state elites, who introduced incremental reforms over three decades. These officials operated beneath the political radar, layering small-scale initiatives on top of the mainstream school... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session... View Details
- Profile
Annora Wang
What was the shape of your career before pursuing your MBA? I worked in finance, on Wall Street. I enjoyed analysis, but wasn’t always interested in the types of business I got involved in. As an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, I had been... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How patient should we be in waiting for the tech productivity dividend? What do you think? Original Column For years we have been regaled with prospects of outsized productivity increases in the United View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
ideal choice for the study because its labor market shares many of the same characteristics as those found in the United States and the United Kingdom. "Aside from being a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
investment horizons make them willing to accept takeover offers that do not fully recognize the overall value of the target—a merger at a low price is preferred to no merger at all. Another question that interests us is what the role of activist investors in countries... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
first-year MBA students will travel to 15 cities across the United States to work on projects that involve the design of a new product, service, or experience for a local segment of that city’s population.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
outside the power structure. I'd like to see a few self-indulgent female millionaires run for office! Is the United States ready for a woman in the White House? Currently, about 75 percent of the population... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
standards can be treated as part of setting direction. Coordination: Organizational structure defines how individuals in the organization are grouped into units, and how these units coordinate with each other. Processes such as the... View Details
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
the customer and to innovation” than he was in his previous job as president of Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technologies. He also relishes being “pure play” in one industry—animal health—which he describes as “a target-rich... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
teaches the popular MBA elective Founders’ Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. What’s a common instance of ill-advised... View Details