Power And Influence - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

company’s mission and values. When these values are violated, even by someone as powerful as the president of the United States, they are obliged to take a clear stand. In this era of instant global... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

Considered one of Wall Street's most influential young executives, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA '93) has gained that stature by working hard at what she has always loved. “My father was an investment banker, and I think my interest in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Profile

Jonathan Arena

five." Jonathan’s grandfather worked at the Heywood-Wakefield Furniture Company in Gardner, Massachusetts; his father “is an amateur photographer and professional writer – and he had his own business,... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

in a given field, what the central ideas were, and where the field might go from here. And, of course, they talk about John McArthur's role, which was powerful and often... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

making specialized hospital beds and power tools for orthopedic surgeons. It provides a case study of Elfers's dictum that the venture firm's forte should always be "strong support of portfolio companies... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

single largest reform initiative is the Strategic Compact. Its goals are to make the Bank more user-friendly and client-responsive by moving more resources, personnel, and budgetary View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2007
News

Looking back; looking forward

with power in practice, a remarkable campus, and an alumni community more than 70,000 strong. Equally important, it’s a chance to help set the agenda for management education View Details

Keywords: Jay O. Light; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

still in progress. The idea is “making the most powerful data tools practical and accessible to practitioners,” he says. To do that effectively, they need to be as close to the process as possible, Paul... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Jun 2003
News

Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus

gift will ensure the continuation of the School’s unique residential campus, where living, classroom, office, and gathering spaces create a powerful community. “I believe education is the best means for... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

01 Jun 2006
News

Job One: Alumni Engagement

examining expectations for programs and ser-vices, evaluating what HBS already offers, and helping to improve marketing and communications. From the School’s perspective, the... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

prior, arriving here with no contacts and no English, ready to start a new life. Seeing her would have been an emotional experience no matter what, but having been supported through chemo for the prior few months, arriving together on the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

Student-Profile

Fanele Mashwama

financial markets, and will influence how willing financial intermediaries are to mediate markets for sovereign liabilities.” Both research interests are ultimately informed by a desire to understand... View Details

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5-Year Data Summary - Annual Report 2014

extending the reach and influence of the School. 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Applications 792 816 868 830 931 Percent Admitted 4% 5% 4% 5% 4% Yield 76% 71% 68% 68% 69% Enrollment 150 143 137 132 125 Executive... View Details

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Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Case Writing & Industry: Header Case Writing & Industry Case Writing & Industry: Quote The case method is powerful because it allows students to grapple with problems as if they are the decision maker. In the end, they can actually... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Funny Business

document we’re all typing into at the same time. The head writer picks the ones we’ll talk about some more—and we might influence the select by saying, ‘This idea would be great if we also did this.’ From there our picks go to the field... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Aug 2021
News

Cracking the Code

applications, connecting data sources and other software together in one place. Its tools are designed to be as powerful as they are straightforward. In fact, the company’s proposition is that many large,... View Details

Profile

Mariano Bomaggio

Born and raised in a small town in Argentina, Mariano Bomaggio has always been interested in exploration—of the world and its cultures, and of the opportunities to accept new... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Manufacturing/Energy

15 Dec 2015
News

Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)

on long-term contracts, which led to the development of the Iroquois pipeline in 1992 and the advent of the first large-scale, gas-fired US power plants. Clearly, Makowski’s entrepreneurial achievements... View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

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