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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

of the program. Ragnhild "Rags" Roberts served as the associate director. Students studied under the case method system, in which they solved problems identified in hundreds of real business situations. One of the core courses of the... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

into domestic banking. In fact, its founders aimed to create both a commercial bank and an investment bank under one roof—that is, a "universal bank." By the end of the nineteenth century, the Deutsche Bank was not only the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the world's six billion people still live on less than $2 a day; a fifth get by on less than $1. At times, foreign aid has even worsened the plight of the... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

it and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long-term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative data on almost 10,000... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

the US just hasn't been improving the basics nearly as fast as some other countries. It's a knotty problem because competitiveness is sort of everybody's agenda. That's one reason you have to be strategic: there are so many things to work... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

rich topic of study and an immensely powerful policy tool.” "The problem is this: The government can't tell whether it is easy or hard for a given person to earn income, because it can't measure 'ability.' What the government can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

biggest problems we are facing in society. Issues like inequality seem so daunting that it can be tempting to sit back and wait for government and policy-leaders who will legislate or regulate solutions. I’d urge you to resist this... View Details

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

and the fluidity of most work structures mean that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

chronicles the Mutiny's rise to prominence, explains how its fall mirrored the end of an era in Miami. READ MORE April White: So I don't think I'm going to give too much away if I ask you to start all the way at the View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

getting his MBA in 1963, Platt joined Doriot at ARD. I was shocked and very upset. Doriot continued, “Did you know of any problems with investments or circumstances of his employment at ARD that might have caused him to take his own... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

diffused into the market. The debate was this: Did Microsoft win because its Internet Explorer was the technologically superior product to Netscape Navigator, or was Microsoft just more successful at the distribution end by convincing... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

individual leaders truly responsible for the end result, or do they just happen to be there—for better or worse? Is history made by forces outside our control, or can leaders make a real difference? With Lincoln, questions like this seem... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Important Life Decisions by Jaja Jackson (MBA 1999) and Jennifer Grimes (Jennifer Grimes) The authors demonstrate that it is really how we make important decisions that will determine how happy we are. A special set of information about... View Details

26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706504 Improving Performance: Boat Building Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 606-147 Provides a framework for team problem solving and process improvement following... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

diplomacy, are not innate talents but can be learned. It lists problems that research has shown often occur in the process of seeking or giving advice, including being overconfident about one's own perspective, failing to seek advice from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

however, when I realized the limitations to the coach’s drive to always win big. As usual, they’d made it all the way to the championship game. But this year, the team they were competing against was playing particularly well. By the end... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

already being practiced by some far-sighted US providers, reversing the typical flow of innovation in the world. Reverse innovation has worked in other industries. We need it now in health care. Not Fade Away: Staying Happy When You’re... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

No matter how many brilliant thinkers a company may employ in-house, sometimes the most innovative solution to a problem can be found from seeking answers outside–from the crowd. “Crowds appear to reliably produce cheaper, faster, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

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