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10 Jul 2016
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Georgetown Dean Thomas Returns to Teaching

Business Experience elective for undergraduates and the Global Fellows Program. He also developed an online Master of Science in finance degree and opened centers of study on markets and ethics and global business. Thomas also led a $30... View Details

19 Jan 2016
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The Three HBS Alumni “Defining the 2016 Campaign”

As anyone with a Twitter account can tell you, the marriage of tech and politics is growing ever tighter. The three HBS alumni who appear on WIRED’s recent “20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign” are good examples of how Washington is turning to Silicon Valley... View Details

23 May 2019
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Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966

the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees 1997 Publishes Bloomberg by Bloomberg 2001 Elected Mayor of New York City 2012 Launches Bloomberg Philanthropies 2014 Returns to Bloomberg LP as CEO 2017 Coauthors Climate of Hope Founder,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2017
News

The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation

Elective Curriculum, with both immersive and extended field course offerings that require students to deepen their understanding of the “knowing” and “doing” of business leadership. Innovation can also happen on a smaller scale, through... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual

U.S. Court of Appeals; made partner at Latham & Watkins, where he specialized in corporate finance; founded (with his father) a company that published an English version of the Russian newspaper Pravda; was appointed senior associate counsel to President Ronald Reagan;... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

Portrait Project

John Brown

failure. I've been rejected by some of the finest educational institutions and most prestigious companies in the world. I've lost public competitions like student elections in front of my friends and peers and been beaten on the football... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

New Post for Finnegan

HBS Fund Chair Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982) has been elected to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s principal fiduciary governing board. A past president of the Harvard Alumni Association and a current member of the University’s Board... View Details

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

Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.

Carpenter was only the second man not of the duPont name in the 145-year history of the company to have been elected president. Carpenter expanded duPont to include diversified chemical lines and grew sales to more than $650 million. View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

01 Mar 2015
News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

built,” she stresses. Currently at work on a book based on her globalization study, Neeley teaches several Executive Education offerings and the MBA elective Leading Teams in a Global Economy. Her case study “Language and Globalization:... View Details

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

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

communicate and made abbreviations like RT (retweet) and ICYMI (in case you missed it) part of the lingo of Twitter users everywhere. What to make of all this? Senior Lecturer Chet Huber, who joined the School's General Management unit after 37 years at General Motors... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

01 Aug 2001
News

George C. Lodge

election but was invited back to Soldiers Field by the new Dean, George P. Baker. He then turned his energies to teaching and to INCAE, which is still flourishing in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries. At the same... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Stanley F. Teele; Ezra F. Vogel; John W. Rosenblum

01 Jun 2009
News

Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development

Nir Barkat, a software entrepreneur elected mayor of Jerusalem last November, visited HBS in late March to take part in a roundtable discussion on the economic development of his city, Israel’s poorest. HBS professor Michael Porter, a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

June 2009
Teaching Note

The Rise of President Barack Hussein Obama (TN)

By: David A. Thomas, Laura Morgan Roberts and Stephanie Creary

Teaching Note for [409115]. View Details

Keywords: Value; Political Elections; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; United States

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2008
Working Paper

Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani

We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Political Elections; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Societal Protocols; India

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15 Nov 2020
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations. California Research Center When the pandemic forced people around the world to work remotely, use of the video conferencing platform Zoom... View Details

18 Dec 2019
News

A Recovery Squandered

01 Dec 2010
News

Wasserman Wins Award

Associate Professor Noam Wasserman has won the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management in recognition of his second-year MBA elective course Founders’ Dilemmas. Based on a decade of research, the... View Details

Keywords: awards

Robert F. Dee

During his CEO tenure, Dee achieved an 800% increase in revenues (over $3 billion) – moving SmithKline into the upper echelons of major pharmaceutical organizations. He introduced the anti-ulcer medication, Tagamet, which became the largest selling prescription drug in... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

01 Dec 2012
News

Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

knows quite a bit about the topic. "Capitalism has traditionally been about driving wealth and productivity through efficiencies in capital and labor," says Henderson, who teaches the MBA elective Reimagining Capitalism. "But in the 21st... View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

01 Mar 2009
News

Having a Ball

STAFFORD: Planning a memorable party, with help from his son, Earl Jr., and wife, Amanda. Tracy A. Woodward/Washington Post Long before the November election, sensing that something historic was in the offing, Earl Stafford (OPM 26, 1998) decided that wounded veterans,... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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