American Well - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2003
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Student Conferences, at a Glance

Lee-Chin, chairman and CEO of AIC, a Canadian mutual fund company. “Our behavior today will be our history tomorrow,” Chin said. “We have to make sure it is well written.” Panels included alumni from recent MBA classes discussing the ups... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival

whether companies here will continue to be competitive in developing flat-panel display innovations. So exporting manufacturing ultimately drains away American innovation? Pisano: Absolutely. That’s the heart of our argument. That’s what... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

to take the reader into meeting rooms and boardrooms to experience management challenges and solutions. More Alumni Books Got Results, Respect, Revenue? Innovative Strategies from 60+ Succeeding Leaders by Betsy Allen (MBA 1984) (Gaining Results Inc.) The New Legions:... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2014
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Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

Fariborz Ghadar (MBA 1972, DBA 1976) could have walked away from the American dream at any point. It could have been the moment his fraternity brothers at MIT decided they couldn't pronounce his name and called him "Bob." It could have... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Oct 2000
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Three Promoted to Full Professor

Differentiation: Implications for Corporate Strategy." Reinhardt, who joined the faculty in 1991, currently teaches the required MBA course Business, Government, and the International Economy as well as the elective Business and the... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World

patents. If you look at the PhD workforce for science and engineering, the immigrant share is even higher at roughly 50 percent. The math and science skills behind many of these innovations are relatively easy to port across locations—they aren’t as reliant on having... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019

‘How did you get there?’ ” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Jahn Karsybaev (GMP 26, 2019), CTO at ProSource IT and host of The Ivy Podcast MUST READ Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein “Pearlstein challenges what has... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

19 Jun 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers

make global specialized healthcare accessible to anyone, anywhere. Trustedoctor “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey, before customers become in-patients of a provider” explains Jarzabek, who remembers well... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Books

carrier-based jet fighter program. When introduced, the first jet aircraft were underpowered and in many ways inferior to propeller-driven aircraft of the time. This book examines the Navy’s internal struggle to adapt the jet engine to its style of warfare as View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Oct 1999
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Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

organizational values and business ethics, Paine has long focused on American companies engaged primarily in domestic U.S. business. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. corporate... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Feb 2000
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New Releases

time when 30 to 40 percent of Americans switch religions during their lifetimes. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School, McLennan is a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain at Tufts University who has spent... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading

about what exactly it means to be human. When it comes to just pure juicy reading, it is hard to beat Anderson Cooper’s dive (with historian Katherine Howe) into his ancestors, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. I... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Feb 2008
News

The Right Stuff at HBS

us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Brighton kids and coach celebrate a job well done. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Sep 2021
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Back to School

students. It’s huge. At the federal level, our value add is providing resources like the American Rescue Plan, as well as the guidance and partnership for spending those dollars. We accumulate and share best... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account

idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

that kind of one-sided knowledge. The Farmers Business Network (FBN), cofounded by Baron, agriculture investor and entrepreneur Amol Deshpande, and several farmers, has emerged in a period of particular crisis for the American farmer.... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

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