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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
As we begin the new academic year, I welcome the opportunity to share the exciting initiatives and activities under way at Harvard Business School. All our efforts are designed to pursue with excellence the School’s mission: to educate leaders who make a difference in...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
who can bring Western business practices and managerial know-how. And if we don’t come back, who will?” Mlotok hopes to leverage her skills through a position in growth-oriented venture capital/private...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that the analytical and creative View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
skills and perspectives he had acquired during his extended hiatus. Located just a mile from Boston and part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park, Thompson Island has been committed to disadvantaged youth since 1833, when a group of...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
based on Outward Bound's educational philosophy. That path brought him to HBS, with the goal of gaining the organizational skills to put his plan into action. If Georgetown was the catalyst for O'Neill's dream of helping kids before they...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
will provide students small-group learning experiences that are by design immersive, experiential, and field-based. FIELD complements the School’s case method of participant-centered learning, and creates a rigorous new platform for students to develop View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
or public sector positions, giving those organizations the opportunity to use the managerial and analytical skills of a MBA to build capacity. Since the program’s launch in 2002, the City of Boston Mayor’s...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their careers as they lack the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
figure it out, someone who shouldn’t, will,” Peterson warns. This is the kind of in-the-trenches managerial decision-making that a new HBS Executive Education program for health-care administrators aims to help. Launched last fall,...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Light applied to the MBA Program...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
Bazerman observes, there is an ethical dimension to this as well. "If managerial and executive decision-makers are acting with bias, but without their own awareness, they're engaging in unethical behaviors," he says. "I would not call...
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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
deciding to try and come home. White: Hunter, you met these women because you had the managerial skills they needed. But what was it about this music project that spoke to you personally? Heaney: I've loved...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Foundation in Singapore. Charleston, A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton (MBA 1986) (Ecco) Faculty Books Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance by Srikant M. Datar and Madhav V. Rajan (Prentice Hall) This...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
pretty businesslike in your judgments,” he says, noting that even a backup player generally earns an annual salary of $1 to $2 million. “The financial skills I learned at HBS have been extremely useful in that sense. You need to be able...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
over, certified that ethical boundaries were being respected.” Massie was learning a lot, too — not only a greater comprehension of the business process and ethos, but also the managerial skills that have...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
talent shortages. Anne Bonaparte sees it firsthand in her corporate customers: a lack of frontline security workers. “They’re not developers or data scientists,” she says. The workers they need range from entry level to managerial...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
shelter during his undergraduate studies had whet his appetite for volunteerism, so when his managerial background landed him “the world’s best Peace Corps assignment,” he was more than ready for the adventure. Murphy was assigned to the...
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