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- 01 Jun 2008
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Letters to the Editor
had no idea that it would become the most important class in my work as an Episcopal priest. I enrolled in seminary five years after graduation from HBS and discovered that real care for people was not taught nearly as well in seminary as it was View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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In Review
reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd. We formed a Dean’s Anti-Racism Taskforce to examine what we need to do and announced a plan to advance racial equity at the School. We must now implement...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking and Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow, saw another catastrophe on the horizon: widespread...
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April White
- 01 Jan 2003
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
Lambert sold Centennial One, the building services company she started in her Maryland garage 25 years earlier had twelve hundred employees and annual revenues of $20 million. Although her family and friends had initially been surprised View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
of smart people. Koehn: As these forces gather steam by the early 1960s, you're now attracting all kinds of interesting people, right? From the names we recognize like Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
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HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
Faculty George F. Baker Professor of Administration Das Narayandas Senior Associate Dean, External Relations and Harvard Business Publishing Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration Dear members of the HBS community, As a...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Rothschild, creator of the modern bond market; and William Lever, of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. Wicked Strategies: How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors by John C....
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
First and foremost, innovators are good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor
anything they can eat or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus — nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy — are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Q & A: Herb Kohl
one hundred grocery and department stores. Kohl focused on philanthropic activities after selling the business in 1979 and purchased the NBA Milwaukee Bucks in 1985. Elected to the Senate seat vacated by View Details
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Susan Young
- 18 Sep 2008
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HBS Olympians
Paralympics, Golden Age Olympics, Senior Olympics, Junior Olympics, Special Olympics, or HBS Section Olympics. But I did mine the following nuggets about actual HBS Olympic athletes from the HBS Web site and the Harvard College list. The nuggets are arranged below...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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On Credit
also be a bank cashier, postmaster, sheriff, or even another businessperson. Each was known by a number or initials. While no key exists to their identities, it’s believed that Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with...
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- 21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is...
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Agriculture
- 05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
of African American artists,” she says. Over time, Joyner’s collecting has evolved to include pieces by mid-career American artists such as Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, and Lorna Simpson. More recently, she has sought out...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the...
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- 20 Sep 2013
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Connections Add Up
by the stories she sees at the grassroots level. At a recent visit to Ariel Community Academy, a magnet school in Chicago, she watched kindergarteners learn principles of trading and fifth graders doing analyses of companies. "They were...
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- 22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
getting out of it. And there's this enormous line that's snaking by the pool side entrance to the club. The club is the first two, three floors of the hotel. It's just varying levels of exclusivity. Who do you know? Is the doorman going...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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School Ties
strategies that upgrade education in specific cities or towns. A second report released in February of this year examined the results of the first-ever nationwide survey of school superintendents on the role of business in America's education system. Completed View Details