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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
School’s US Competitiveness Project from business leader Katherine Gehl and University Professor Michael Porter. Gehl and Porter use the lens of industry competition to analyze the US political system and propose a strategy for reform and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in their work. So you get this... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
casualties and run up massive national debt; Auguste believed the best options for his son?s future lay in America. Auguste planned for Georges to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and he gave his son a letter of introduction to A. View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
through, and I said to my mom afterwards, “That was not me at my finest moment, Mom, but you were my insurance.” Bill Hernandez, Class of ’73, Section J, a course called Decision Analysis. We were the special subsection, so other classes called it Managerial Economics... View Details
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
"reality testers," not necessarily authority figures, advises University of Pennsylvania professor Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology. For decades, scientists regarded optimism and pessimism as fixed traits we... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
“Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election,” Professors Rawi Abdelal and Rafael Di Tella examine the shifting media landscape and geopolitics that contributed to this moment. Di Tella is an economist who has studied Latin American... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
have today's senior executives, trained in the days when the pyramidal organization and domestic markets held sway, made the transition to a global, technology-driven economy? For three 1971 classmates and corporate leaders, Donald J. Carty, View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
on the most important (and expensive) asset of any business: its people. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter, Bishop William View Details
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
collection reflects the development of marketing and retailing as fields of study. Paul T. Cherington Papers The papers of Paul T. Cherington, instructor of the first marketing courses taught at HBS,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
classmate Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020). The idea came to me after I saw many of my Black classmates become discouraged by being left out of recruiting processes altogether or repeatedly rejected from the small pool of coveted roles in venture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
across the country. The opening day of the conference featured a welcome from HBS African-American Alumni Association president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA 1974). His remarks were followed by a management seminar, conducted by HBS professor... View Details
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Business Education & The Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
administration. Gay urged HBS Professor Melvin T. Copeland to incorporate active discussions into parts of the course “Commercial Organization and Methods” (later renamed “Marketing”). 3 As early as 1911, HBS invited executives to present... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
(MBA 1972) has parlayed a lifelong interest in the field of organizational behavior into two careers. Encouraged by HBS professors Jay Lorsch and Paul Lawrence, Nadler pursued a PhD in the subject at the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio) Conard challenges the arguments of... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg