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- 25 Aug 2014
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Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
the time, Deng Xiaoping was beginning to modernize the Chinese economy. “I was there about 30 years too early,” says Nelson, who left in 1980 to move to Sweden, where he married his girlfriend. Nelson came to HBS to gain the tools to transition into the industry now...
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Susan Young
- 12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
He recalls this moment in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts. “Up until that point,” he writes, “the only thing I had managed were a couple of donut shops—replacing...
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career;
Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
that has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions, and other forms of assistance to small businesses. She leads a team of 3,000 employees who help small businesses across the country. The agency also...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Orientation Teamwork
FIRE AWAY: Each Learning Team built a catapult that was intended egg at a target 25 feet away without breaking the payload. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL It may have looked like all fun and games, but the MBA Class...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Faculty Books
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy C. Edmondson (Jossey-Bass) The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Edmondson says that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well their View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Escape from Alcatraz
taco bar—but local businesses have already discovered that it can also be a learning experience for professional teams, requiring real teamwork to advance through obstacle courses and solve absurd puzzles. It can take 10 to 20 or more...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2011
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Welcome to the Future
Batten Hall, on Western Avenue, is the totally renovated and redesigned building formerly occupied by the PBS television station WGBH. Batten Hall’s top two floors, reserved for HBS, are devoted to 10 curved, modular learning spaces...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Students Negotiate a Victory
complete the third year of the four-year program. Describing the factors that contributed to their success, Chung credited tactics learned during the first year of studies in the classroom of HBS professor Max Bazerman, a negotiation...
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- 02 Dec 2010
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Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
skill in assembling stakeholders who can survive the loss of the assets they contribute if the worst happens. 7. Learning to lead requires a lifelong effort. Most entrepreneurs aspire to grow their small start-ups into large ventures, but...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest
think housekeeping is anybody’s first pick. But I wanted to learn the business from the ground up.” Smith says that early experience taught him lessons in leadership, management, and execution. After conducting numerous room inspections...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA
Issue Focus: Leadership Illustration by Craig Frazier What HBS Learned from West Point The Evolving Case Method Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Making the Leadership Case Related Faculty Research What Top Scholars Say about...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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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 View Details
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- 23 Oct 2019
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Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
the case method by giving students the opportunity to take action and see the consequences,” says Vicky Keirnan, who oversees the creation of these and other learning tools at HBS. Keirnan and her staff work with a software development...
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Educational Innovation
- 15 Nov 2016
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Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
CEO. Currently two trucks are in operation. The students brought their individual strengths to the project as each took turns in leadership roles. The team experience also gave them the opportunity to work on skills they wanted to...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
next level. She learns from three different organizations—US Special Forces, NASCAR, and a local restaurant—that all successful teams have three elements in common. Miller discusses how to change entrenched...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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MBAs go down the road less traveled to work with entrepreneurs
America (MBAxAmerica), which sends students out on the road to learn from and work with entrepreneurs. The MBAxAmerica team provided pro-bono consulting to small-business owners in eight cities in the summer...
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- 01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal
Soldiers Field? Says Swearengin, “The team approach at HBS, from study groups, to Crimson Greetings, to section intramural sports, offers great lessons for those who have not been lucky enough to be a part of a successful View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Think Tank
A faculty team charged with designing the new yearlong FIELD course — short for Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development — in the first year of the MBA Program has been meeting regularly since January. The walls and panels...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
Across Harvard University, rapid innovation and technological change, among other factors, are prompting important collaborations that enhance learning and deepen understanding. Under the mantle of “One Harvard,” students, faculty...
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