American presidency - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

Business School and Hongyi Li (HBS PhDBE '11) of the MIT Sloan School. (An article in the forthcoming April issue of Harvard Business Review, cowritten by Wulf and Booz & Company Senior Vice President Gary L. Neilson, will discuss... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7

Chairman and CEO, Emeritus. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910419-PDF-ENG Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk Aldo Musacchio, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer, and Carolina CamachoHarvard Business School Case 710-012 By mid-2009... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

was an account executive on Eastern Airlines back when Eastern Airlines was still flying. And I worked also for American Cyanamid which at the time was Old Spice products and Formica products, worked in their consumer products division... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Alumni Achievement Awards

people will all mentor others, which amplifies my actions by my choice to invest in you. Chris Howard (MBA 2003) President, Robert Morris University My narrative is the American narrative—from the great-great-grandson of slaves to the... View Details

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

management control and health care. Her latest book, Market-Driven Health Care, won the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Herzlinger opened the conference by reporting on the forces driving... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

View from the Top

entire companies and the driving force behind the turnaround of the American economy, is suddenly under siege,” the New York Times declared in June. In the months since, the chorus of voices questioning today's business leaders has only... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

the North continued to suffer crushing numbers of casualties. Pressure grew on the Union side to end the conflict, even if it meant foregoing universal emancipation. Facing the prospect of an upcoming presidential election against a popular Democratic candidate, George... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

entrepreneurs. That's what "bringing society in" means. It's more than thinking that the organization should be customer oriented. It means, "Let's think about our community." Q: President Obama: vanguard leader? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Some refer to the post-crash era as a paradigm shift for commercial real estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

EU Commission President Juncker sees “the wind [ ] back in Europe's sails.” Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55046 Harvard Business School Case 518-034 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

(MBA 1980) Crown This book is a fresh, intimate look at a series of American Presidents who took the nation into war and mobilized the country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most... View Details

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which seeks fast growth of its own. To... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

K. SebeniusHarvard Business School Case 912-003 Roger Caracappa must negotiate a cost-saving, innovative proposal from a potential French supplier that could displace the otherwise satisfactory, long-time incumbent supplier. Shortly after being promoted to executive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2021
News

A Playbook for Progress

critical moment in history. The first woman and the first woman of color has been elected vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. And over the past year, there has been significant unrest around equality and rights, whether... View Details

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a veteran of doing battle with much larger Microsoft, has some words of wisdom on competing against a market giant: "If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, don't play chess." Glaser, president and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co.,... View Details

15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book provides detailed accounts of a... View Details