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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
by his example. He grew up in a very small village in India and was one of the first people in his family to attend college, where he studied engineering. He then went to England to get a diploma in management from Manchester Business... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
father and English mother, de Carvalho attended school in Switzerland and became such an accomplished skier that he represented Great Britain in the 1968 Winter Olympics, and again in 1972 and 1976, both times in the luge. By then, he had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Image by Jezper by Regina E. Herzlinger Health care now represents some 18 percent of the American economy. With its costs continuing to rise, and with tens of millions uninsured, we in the United States are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
the less government involvement there is, the better,” says Oberholzer-Gee. “In fact, a number of the competitive advantages enjoyed by companies have come from the regulations that governments impose on markets.” In the course’s last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
would affect that relationship? Is it about culture, leadership, perspective? How do organizations such as Deloitte, McKinsey, IKEA, and Bank of America think about gender diversity? Which practices work, and which don't? By the way, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
have serious ailments unnoticed during primary care exams. White learned the lesson early on. As a young medical student in Memphis, he watched a black woman being operated on for uterine cancer, a procedure botched by the white surgeon... View Details
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
progress." 68 Many students from his Manufacturing course went on to assist Doriot during the war, work by his side at ARD, help found INSEAD, hold positions in top corporations, and start the second generation of venture capital firms.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
When Raghu Yarlagadda (MBA 2014) visited his native India in 2009, signs of a persistent energy crisis were everywhere: villages going dark to conserve energy, youngsters inhaling fumes while studying by kerosene lamp, and candles posing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
Joan Levy and Ted Levitt on August 1, 1948. The couple married six months after their first date. Photo courtesy Joan Levitt Boris Levitt was a Russian shoemaker who lived under Stalin before he was captured by the German army and brought... View Details
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
for consumer goods.” James D. Norris, Advertising and the Transformation of American Society , 1865—1920, 1990 52 Advertising reached consumers through wholesalers and retailers as well as traveling salesmen who operated as middlemen between manufacturers and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
consequences in the future." Supported primarily by the Dean's Fund and some early leadership gifts, the BEI has already posted significant accomplishments since its founding in 2010. In addition to launching new MBA courses such as... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
generations of the Heard Family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, constitute the most comprehensive and detailed collection held by Baker Library on the China trade. Engaged in the China trade principally from 1840 to 1877, Heard & Co. records... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
by excesses in diet and lifestyle.” Lessons also emerged from “failure.” After weeks of training for a climb to the top of Papua New Guinea’s 14,800-foot Mount Wilhelm, Ehrenberg abandoned her quest within sight of the summit to care for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
When he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1990 with a degree in aerospace engineering, Eric Feagler (MBA 2001) had already been accepted by the Navy’s elite flight training program. After a brief postgraduation return to... View Details
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
lived together so many years, and I had seen so much of his noble traits, that I had the highest admiration for him.” 39 During this time the brothers experienced transformations in the firm and the China trade itself. By the 1870s the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
they enjoy a five-hour meal of thirty-some completely original, whimsical dishes prepared by Adrià and his team of thirty to forty cooks. The meal costs roughly 230 euros and represents hours of laborious research, testing, and... View Details
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Seven Lessons from the Section Experience - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
which had historically been very manual in nature. CEO Juan Villarzu's initial turnaround attempts introduced a customer-centric corporate culture to his ranks, but he was still challenged by how to create... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
Photography by Robert Schoen If I take one overall impression away from HBS, it's that everyone here has a powerful story to tell,” says Martin Gonzalez, a lanky Chilean whose own life story took a dramatic turn during his first year at... View Details