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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate Breakdowns: The Nature and Extent... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
How-To Book for General Managers
Effective implementation often comes down to how well executives design, direct, and influence their organization's critical processes. HBS professor David Garvin's new book, General Management: Processes and Action (McGraw-Hill), provides a powerful foundation for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
When the stakes are high - in business, politics, or everyday life - it pays to take a page from the playbook of the world's greatest negotiators. And if you want to learn how to be a world-class negotiator, consider how Richard Holbrooke helped defuse the war in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
CHIP AND DAN HEATH: What makes messages memorable? Photo COURTESY THE HEATH FAMILY Everyone “knows” that strangers have tampered with children’s candy on Halloween. But actual examples of this are hard to come by. It is, however, an idea that sticks, as Dan Heath (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to walk beside Jim as he takes on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945 by Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) (Simon & Schuster) Noted presidential historian, author, and commentator Beschloss offers an insightful, comprehensive, behind-the-scenes account of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
Incredibly, no such guide to flavor compatibility has ever been published before. Do restaurant chef/owners have management lessons for the rest of business? Absolutely. One acclaimed owner assigns a mood rating on a scale of one to ten... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Launches Year Up 2012 Publishes A Year Up, which becomes a best seller 2013 Named Chairman, Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees 2014 Year Up will serve 2,100 young adults Gerald Chertavian takes the adage “what doesn’t kill us... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
Perfection (Sarah Crichton Books), published in September, from which this article is derived. Photo courtesy of Debora L. Spar Over the years, there's a phrase that's been lobbed at me dozens of times: "I don't mean to disparage or... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
time," Tumulty recalls. "The paper was owned by Hearst, and our chief competitor was published by Rupert Murdoch. It was a classic newspaper war, with dueling headlines along the lines of 'Baby Eats LSD' and 'Pregnant Cat Gunned Down.'"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story
Newspapers are missing an opportunity to boost revenues by barely tapping the online market, according to a new study by Assistant Professor Clark Gilbert and Borrell Associates Inc. In “Newspapers Miss Out on $300 Million in Online Advertising” (October 1, 2002),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Managing Change
Foundation Professorship. Narayandas will leave the role of Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education, but will continue to serve as Senior Associate Dean for Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). Narayandas begins this new leadership... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
In addition to her field research on creativity, Teresa Amabile is a keen observer and enthusiastic supporter of the creative efforts of her HBS students. To illustrate her belief that entrepreneurial success is driven by passion for ideas, Amabile recounts the launch,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
explore the dynamics of the rapidly evolving digital environment. Market Driven Health Care by Regina E. Herzlinger (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.) Informed and assertive consumers, powerful new technologies, and ferociously... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
larger community. I have to say, it was a spectacular event.” Certainly the release—on the same day as the club’s event—of a newly published case on the Bucks’ meteoric rise by HBS Professor Anita Elberse, may have added to the excitement... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
symposium will be collected and published at a later date. The following is a list of the papers' authors: Business History Professor Thomas K. McCraw and Assistant Professor Nancy F. Koehn Competition and Strategy Professors Adam M.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
about a blind student who photographed cracks in the sidewalk that impeded her progress, “became a pivotal metaphor that helped me define my calling in the world,” says Deifell. Since graduation, he has published a book and presented a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Joseph Stiglitz offering remedies for income inequality. Drawing on a historical study of the ebbs and flows of the US economy, he proposes ways to grow the economy faster, which will benefit everyone on the income spectrum. Harp by Nidhi Dalmia (OPM 22, 1995)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities
entire HBS community, and we are grateful for your involvement.” Das Narayandas, Senior Associate Dean, External Relations and Harvard Business Publishing Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration View Details