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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
share computer-generated results of the chaos and inefficiencies produced by inadequate information. “The level of dysfunction in such a simple supply chain is extraordinary,” says Assistant Professor Andrew...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
After three years, the pair sold their portfolio to Sutter Hill Ventures, and Johnson looked for a company to buy. Instead, he ended up back in the venture business, founding Asset Management Company in 1967. Over the ensuing decades,...
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- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
community,” says Andrew Falzone, director of campus and food services. AUGUST 6 This chronicle of the HBS’s Re-entry Pilot Day by Marketing and Communications writer Shona Simkin offers an inside look at how...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
I am thrilled to address you in my new role as president of the HBSAA Board of Directors. I look forward to using this vehicle to update you regularly on the work of the Alumni Board as well as other programs of note to the greater alumni community. Because the work...
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- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Waste as...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
Andrew Carnegie asked a congressional committee: "Do you really expect men engaged in an active struggle to make a living at manufacturing to be posted about laws and their decisions, and what is applied here, there, and everywhere?"...
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Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
investors, or other members of development teams. Firing Back by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (MBA ’78, DBA ’81) and Andrew Ward (HBS Press) The authors lay out a novel five-step recovery process to rescue a career:...
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Joe Stenger
Earth. You’re surrounded by the most accomplished, yet humble, people in the world. Because of them, each night I go to bed believing that anything is possible. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? When I was 9 years old, I...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Photographed by Melissa Golden David Bradley was painting a picture with words. The owner and chairman of Atlantic Media had gathered about 400 staffers in a small Kennedy Center theater near the company’s Watergate offices. It was the...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture across the river during this...
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- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
HBS heavy-hitters Clay Christensen and Michael Porter closed out a recent conference organized by HBS and Harvard Medical School. Held on the HBS campus November 14 and 15, "Healing Ourselves: Addressing Healthcare's Innovation Challenge"...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Leave it up to HBS alumni clubs in Texas to plan events that leave big impressions on their members. Houston Club President Andrew L. Waite (MBA '93), now in the second year of his term, rattles off the high-caliber speakers his club...
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
collapse.” It’s a very nice feel-good story, but how cell phones are going to bring a tribal culture dominated by religious extremism, corruption, repression of women, and a lack of access to education and commercial infrastructure into...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30...
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Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton;
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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog
open for limited cross-registration, and enrollment will be limited to 50 students. Enrollment by application only: To apply, please submit your CV and a paragraph of interest to this survey by January 5th,...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA...
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- 30 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reflecting on AASU50: Advancing African American Business Leadership
Frederick Douglass. “In line with AASU’s mission, our personal vision for the 2017-2018 academic year has been driven by the goal of strengthening the bonds within the community by investing further in the...
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- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system to rate tires on tread wear, traction, and temperature resistance had been rebuffed by a U.S. appeals court. Although the court found...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that...
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