Power And Influence - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

comprised 88 mergers and thousands of brand name products in 20 product categories. Including items such as vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, power drills, and washing machines,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

Platform for Dialogue

fashion, American and Indian cinema, Middle Eastern oil, Chilean minerals, Japanese and Greek shipping, and much more, to synthesize historical drivers of global change, I... View Details

Career Coach

earnings. Her secret power is finding cool job opportunities across a range of industries & company stages. Her mission is to help you secure your bag! Work Experience: Procter & Gamble. Kapor Startup Fellow (pre-MBA internship), WSC &... View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

artificial intelligence and machine learning, are disrupting operations and business models around the world. The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) launched... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation

If a blueprint existed for educational innovation in the MBA Program, it would be informed by one guiding principle: create opportunities for students to identify and pursue their passions and to make a... View Details

11 May 2021
News

Pitching to Win

“This year has underscored the power of knowledge to save lives, to save communities, and to help lead us into what we hope will be a more normal future.” READ MORE View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

into a very powerful motivating force. In a tough economic environment, when there is little money for bonuses and a lot of concern about layoffs, Katzenbach says it becomes even more important to... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

Portrait Project

Noah Brodsky

Make people smile. And laugh and play, and have wonderful vacations they never forget. I am going to build resorts that bring people together. Places that strengthen the love... View Details

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Jenny Tison

With her father serving as a Naval officer in Japan, Jenny Tison learned two important things about life, and herself, early on. “I learned to be an extrovert,” Jenny says, which probably helped with the second lesson. “It wasn’t easy... View Details

Portrait Project

Douglas Schillinger

compassionate to his enemies. I want to be the man from whom others seek counsel. I want to be the man who adopts a needy child. I want to add strength to someone fighting illness. I want to battle and endure for that which I believe in... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971

leadership skills became a matter of life or death. As the commander of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, Lovell and his crew were faced with a serious problem: a fault in the electrical equipment caused a loss of View Details

22 Oct 2018
News

Capital Murder

adapt. Why did you choose to write from the perspective of a young intern with no political power? I’ve read so many political thrillers written from the point of view of presidents and power brokers. I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through intense questioning about the system and the conduct of its actors. For example, in the latter part of the 19th century, the railroad, the telegraph, View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Profile

Fereshteh Zeineddin

entrepreneur," she says. Either way, HBS has given her a more powerful way of understanding her priorities. "Being in sales with over one hundred clients and a huge territory, I had thought time... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

and fund them generously. JOHN ALFORD (MBA 2001) Chief network growth officer, KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Foundation, the largest nonprofit network of college-preparatory charter schools in the United... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Equip our students to become leaders for racial equity. - Advancing Racial Equity

not only with HBS’s mission and values but also with our educational aims and heritage. HBS has long been a school of general management, focused on training students to understand View Details

Student-Profile

Sarah Wolfolds

When I was a senior in college, I planned to attend a PhD program in Economics to study industrial organization and potentially labor economics. I had always been interested in Economics and was intrigued by... View Details

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Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting

skills, and in the influence of an HBS education and network as a doorway to the kinds of companies I hoped to work for, so I decided to hold out for HBS. The wait proved... View Details

23 Mar 2020
News

Signal Boost

being influenced by women, yet they weren’t paying attention to what women wanted.” Giving voice to those who aren’t always heard has been a hallmark of Lara’s career. Today, she works as the executive director at Lakeshore Ethnic... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Sister Soldier

Author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) has been here before—speaking with palpable enthusiasm and urgency about women who have defied cultural norms and changed the world around them through acts of bravery... View Details

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