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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Len Blavatnik Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989) The Blavatnik Family Foundation is catalyzing Harvard's efforts to translate basic scientific discoveries into new therapies and cures. The Foundation, led by American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details
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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
country offered apprenticeships, including Sylvania Electric Products, General Electric, Bloomingdales, American Optical Co., American Broadcasting Co., Metropolitan Life Insurance, and R. H. Macy.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
Competition had on their business. Parker Treacy (MBA 2012) Founder of Cobli, 2016 Alumni Track Grand Prize Winner Cobli, based in Brazil, is a vehicle fleet logistics business tapping into the South American market of 50 million... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
women - has climbed well above the competition. With some two million visitors to its Web site each month, iVillage attracts more than twice as much traffic as its nearest competitor. "We've established a commanding lead," Carpenter... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm, View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
It's no coincidence that the new book America the Principled is coming out just as the U.S. presidential election gets into full swing, says its author, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. She wants us all to rethink the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School, including an extensive collection of student reports from the Manufacturing course. This collection also contains documents from Doriot's involvement with American Research and Development (ARD), including his... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
percent decline in Standard & Poor's last year, the median CEO pay is up 14 percent this year. Moreover, there's been an incredible diffusion of what some people are calling the stealth-wealth pay system. This was evident, for example, in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
as well as door prizes and a surprise video greeting from HBS Dean Srikant Datar. “We’ve been here since 1947, which is pretty amazing,” says the club’s president, Megan Stidman (MBA 1999). “It was a lot of fun to celebrate being here for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
describe collaborative problem-solving. The "advocacy" process they mention is more of a contest among multiple points of view.Lagace: What leaders come to mind as people who use or have used the inquiry process to great advantage? Garvin and Roberto: Harvey... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Thaddeus Mosley Illusory Progression 2020 | About
materials and local sawmills, as well as fallen logs sourced from Pittsburgh’s Forestry Division, Mosley’s carved abstractions, or “sculptural improvisations,” as he calls them, show the influence of jazz on his artistic process. He often... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
“We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg and sperm... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
around the world, Nohria observed. "That causes people to ask, 'How well prepared is this great American institution to be a leader in this new global century?'" However you define inflection... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
international competition. That was a sign that the US was not doing well in businesses that have to compete internationally. The data also showed what many had known—that wages started stagnating well over... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
at home. At a January “Insourcing American Jobs” forum at the White House, Ford, with Fields as its representative, was recognized for its “insourcing”—returning jobs to America from overseas, and building new plants at home instead of... View Details
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion
entrepreneurial skills and the Lebanese business community is competent and well known around the world,” says Ingea. “Despite the current hardships, she remains hopeful and optimistic about the future of Lebanon.” Ingea says a lively Q&A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back... View Details