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- 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
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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library
for creating winning brands , Brand aid : a quick reference guide to solving your branding problems and strengthening your marketing position. Wileman, Andrew: Retail power plays : from trading to brand... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
a firm that invests only in women-owned companies,” says Mills. “What we've done is build a network — beyond our usual network — of powerful women executives, including HBS classmates Orit Gadiesh and Ann... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
That’s what we did at our 20th HBS reunion a few years ago. We decided to put aside the suggested section case discussion to instead share the personal challenges that no one escapes life without. It was unbelievably powerful to hear... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
Tom Volpe Prior to earning degrees from Harvard College and the London School of Economics, Tom Volpe had worked as a furniture mover and paperboy, among other occupations. "I never had to wear a jacket... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
Almost fifty years before HBS developed a broadcast presence with its own Web site in 1996, the School had a rather limited one: the radio station WHBS, which was in operation from 1948 to 1964 or 1965. It was limited because the broadcasting was done via HBS’s View Details
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A Eureka Moment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
that this term, ‘networking,’ is so much more powerful in a place where faculty have an open-door policy and are willing to tap into their personal networks to provide support View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
its board of directors — a quirky but powerful 23-member group that includes 11 annually elected Harvard and MIT students — on a restructuring plan that eliminated most nonbook merchandise. Barnes & Noble's... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
Olmsted Teisberg. Key Learnings 1. The U.S. health care system is a paradox in that it has competition yet fails to deliver improving value. Competition has been shown to be an incredibly powerful force in driving increased quality View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society
Do corporations do well by doing good? Or do firms that engage in environmental and social initiatives destroy shareholder wealth? George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, has studied how... View Details
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Jeremy Andrus
fundamental to what we do. We play at this very powerful intersection between consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. The more mobile phones, streaming media, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
principles we espouse for taking control of one's life - steps such as being proactive, putting first things first, and establishing clearly what you want to achieve. The universality of these principles resonates with people. Which habit... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lindsay McGregor
facing barriers outside my control – some unavoidable, but many that were within people’s power to change. Eventually, I found workarounds, like operating a mouse by foot and "typing" with... View Details
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Arthur Rock
with it a surge magical new hardware, software and services that lead directly to the current world of the Internet, powerful mobile devices and a hyper-connected globe where... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
closely during the School's technological revamping. He credits both with influencing his decision to enter the MBA Program. Over the last eighteen months, in his role as student chair of both the MBA Academic View Details
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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment
instead, emitting fewer GHGs. [45] Water Consumption Industry accounts for about 20% of global water usage , the second highest usage after agriculture. [46] Except when powered by renewable or nuclear energy, pumping View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
on the shaky side. That difference is a critical concern in Eastern Europe and Africa. On an optimistic note, I think that entrepreneurship is going to be the most important economic driver in a lot of countries. The U.S. will continue to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
wanted the city back about its regular commercial business. "The business community's number one concern," he says, "was getting the power back on," so that computers, elevators, office lights, and heating... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
studies at Harvard College and HBS. He has been a dedicated and creative fundraiser on both sides of the Charles River and was the first HBS Fund Chair to match the class gift... View Details