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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
eBay, Skype, and more recently, Uber. I saw the opportunity to do that with play—to make it a social, bite-sized experience that would give adults permission to put play back in their lives. I don’t think Zynga has achieved that status...
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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold View Details
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Deborah Blagg
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
data analysis and metrics tracking. ArcelorMittal and the private sector during the Ebola crisis Spring 2016 | Focus: Healthcare; International Development Team: Sarah Nam and Sisi Pan Description: The Ebola outbreak in 2013-16 devastated...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
development opportunities, or proper rewards. Expanding on their previous books, The HR Scorecard and The Workforce Scorecard, the authors recommend that workforces be managed like portfolios, with more investments in the jobs that create...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
On January 1, 2021, Srikant Datar became the 11th Dean of Harvard Business School. Datar joined the HBS faculty in 1996 and had served in a range of leadership positions at HBS, most recently as the senior...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
the most audacious people driving disruptive transformation today, Li will inspire leaders at all levels to answer the call to lead disruptive transformation in their organizations, communities, and society. Innovation on Tap: Stories of...
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- Career Coach
Warren Radtke
Warren (Kellogg '60) is a HBS Career and Professional Development Consultant and a Confidential Advisor to C-Suite Executives and Entrepreneurs. He has held executive positions in public and privately held companies as well as View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Perkowski Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home On Wall Street, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) channeled capital to growing companies. In China,...
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
and study of the Great American Business Leaders database. The project identified and analyzed the accomplishments of some 860 top executives in the 20th century, and results are now starting to emerge. A portion of the database is free...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
Administration, outlining the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship at HBS and crediting McArthur's support for many of the recent accomplishments in this area. "The School [is now] View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
business ethicist Nash, a senior research fellow at HBS, and Stevenson, an entrepreneurship expert and HBS professor, offer a practical framework designed to help readers define and achieve success in terms...
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- 31 Jan 2016
- News
Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats
Backed by $50 million in capital from three movie studios, startup Atom Tickets is planning a nationwide launch this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. Cofounded by Matthew Bakal (MBA 2004), Atom is entering a market as “first...
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- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
World Nutella Day a cease-and-desist letter in 2013. The company backed down and eventually embraced this day of honor of its beloved product. Companies devote significant resources to holding focus groups and collecting customer...
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by Danielle Kost
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
was born in Taiwan, and my mother and I came to the States when I was just about five,” explains the 46-year-old Wu. “When we first arrived, my family really struggled. Living through that process, we were assisted by organizations that...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
(which are often legal and unavoidable), while maintaining a strong anti-corruption and anti-capture stance. HBS professor Lou Wells, with many years of experience working on mining agreements and as a negotiator in View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Catchphrases and Mottos 1972B studied an HBO (Human Behavior in the Organization) case in which there were two hourly workers. One of them...
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- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
Image credit: iStock / -Antonio- Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. During this spring’s reunions, the Skydeck crew set up shop on Spangler lawn and asked returning alumni to reflect on their time at...
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- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
conduct business. In fact, consumers vote with their checkbooks if they feel that transnational companies aren't acting as stewards of public health, worker rights, and the environment. As infamous cases have filled the airwaves—Nestlé's...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch...
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- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
linear, making you linger and pause and consider, rather than an easy search-and-grab. If you think about the origins of Starbucks, it was a process filled with friction: The barista would ask about your family and educate you about coffee growing regions View Details