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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) In early March 2020, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) could point proudly to the growth of the online math company. In the last nine years, since the startup pivoted from consumer...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
When Kathleen Cooke Ryan took up her new role as executive director of the HBS Global Initiative last March, she joined a thriving organization. After the successful 1999 launch of its first international research center -- the Asia-Pacific Research Office, in Hong...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
When Jan Rivkin talks about what the US educational system must deliver, he lays out the challenge in stark terms. "For young Americans to succeed in today's workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world's best," declares Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
CGLV Plenary Session
Last May, a plenary session was held to summarize and integrate the findings and recommendations gleaned from four workshops held at HBS during the academic year. Known as Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values (CGLV), the workshop series featured participants...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Cheers to Volunteers
Senior Associate Dean for External Relations Rob Kaplan, John Whitehead (MBA 1947), and HBS Fund Chair Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982) celebrated the fundraising efforts of alumni volunteers at a reception at New York City's Metropolitan Club in March. The annual event drew...
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- 01 May 2012
- News
Best in Show
Parrish: To counter a down economy, laughter was the best medicine. Long an occasion for high jinks and good laughs, the HBS Show was born in dark times. Oil shocks, inflation, and high unemployment were the order of the day when Joe Parrish (MBA 1974) pulled together...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Entrepreneurs’ Fund
Dan Rumennik, Jess Bloomgarden, and Andrew Rosenthal (all HBS ’12) are the driving forces behind the establishment of a new initiative, funded by the Rock Center, that offers a total of $50,000 to HBS student entrepreneurs. Awards of $5,000 each to ten selected teams...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
groups don’t learn naturally—because of interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding—Edmondson shows how to overcome these barriers. She explains how collaborative...
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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
With the launch of the Gender Initiative in spring 2015, HBS is poised to become an important resource for research on gender. “So much of what people think they know about gender is simply not substantiated by empirical evidence, but instead is based on stereotypes,”...
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- April 1997 (Revised May 1997)
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Mercer Management Consulting's "Grow to Be Great" (A): The Growth Initiative
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In late 1994, James Down, member of Mercer's Executive Committee, has to decide whether or not he should push ahead with the writing and publication of a book on growth--at a time when the more successful business publications focus on reengineering and cost cutting....
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Organizational Culture;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Knowledge Management;
Product Development;
Information Publishing;
Books;
Consulting Industry;
Publishing Industry
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. Mercer Management Consulting's "Grow to Be Great" (A): The Growth Initiative. Harvard Business School Case 697-084, April 1997. (Revised May 1997.)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
that will make anonymity an afterthought. I think the Bitcoin public ledger will eventually hold so much valuable information that some very interesting analytics companies are going to emerge to make sense of the data. Has there ever...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
you get used to losing—a lot. You also learn how to read people. It’s not like some guy twists an Oreo, like John Malkovich’s character in the movie Rounders, but there’s valuable information if you are paying attention. My goal is to...
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- 1982
- Book
Managing Business-Government Relations: Cases and Notes on Business-Government Problems
By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords:
Management;
Business Ventures;
Government and Politics;
Relationships;
Information;
Cases;
Problems and Challenges
Fox, J. Ronald. Managing Business-Government Relations: Cases and Notes on Business-Government Problems. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1982.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
In an innovative complement to the case method of instruction, the entire Class of 2013 spent the 15-week Winter Term practicing what they were learning from their required courses as they worked in small teams to build viable microbusinesses. The business-building...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
Investing in HBS Giving Through HBS Giving Together Jump-Start FAQ Renowned as the leading authority on disruptive innovation, Professor Clay Christensen attributes his remarkable success as an entrepreneur and as a scholar to his humble beginnings as a fellowship...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Rags to Riches
Husnu Ozyegin (MBA ’69) is the richest man in Turkey, and he’s enjoying his wealth by giving lots of it away. Since 2000, he’s doled out some $50 million, building 36 primary schools and girls’ dormitories in Turkey’s poorest regions, the New York Times (December 14,...
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Management
- March 1993 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Chemical Bank: Technology Support for Cooperative Work
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard
Describes the organization and IT environment that Bruce Hasenyager found when he arrived at Chemical Bank. Goes on to explain his decision for implementing Lotus Notes as an "indispensable" management tool. Software is available: Order No. 9-196-701 (Windows version)...
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Organizations;
Decision Making;
Decisions;
Management Style;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Applications and Software;
Information Technology;
Information;
Information Management;
Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Donna B. Stoddard. "Chemical Bank: Technology Support for Cooperative Work." Harvard Business School Case 193-131, March 1993. (Revised September 1995.)
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
“helps businesses provide this increasingly important information in a more rationalized way.” Massie's energy and output is even more remarkable given the fact that some twenty years ago, he acquired HIV in the course of his many...
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- 18 Nov 2010
- News