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- 01 Dec 2005
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Winning Legally
simply to accept responsibility and apologize. Few litigators go into a courtroom thinking they will lose — but examples abound of cases where they were wrong. When companies have an in-house general counsel, can’t managers assume that...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class discussions. I loved the case method as a process for testing ideas. It...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World -...
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- 02 Dec 2019
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A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
today’s students do the same. Supporting People and Programs Barry notes that when he was at the School, there were few students from abroad and only a handful of globally oriented cases discussed, whereas now the numbers for both have...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
And mechanisms exist to handle such contingencies both efficiently and effectively. Depending on the facts and circumstances, for instance, a job change could lead to a decision not to renominate an incumbent director. In a case of...
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Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
agenda of how we carry out our research. The papers presented will be our vehicle for discussing academic decisions, just as case studies are a vehicle for advancing our understanding of business decisions." The conference allowed...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
like to work with those types." Learned at HBS A ton. I was totally smitten with the case method, and I learned so much about how people work in groups. Role models My high-school Latin teacher was incredibly creative and passionate: She...
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- 11 May 2011
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In a Good Place
types: “My group always asked me to be the team leader, maybe because they didn’t want me to mess up what they were working on too much,” she laughs. From her time at HBS, Gehrke cites first-year Marketing with former HBS professor Marty Marshall, as well as the...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
Business School quite closely, and I’m struck by the things that we take for granted that were once considered great innovations. The case method, for example, wasn’t with us from the day Harvard Business School was founded. It took 20...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
with a “what’s in it for me attitude” and little patience. I have found that there is really no shortcut to success, and learning business takes time. Companies are different, industries are different, and the case method recognizes this....
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
(MBA 1969)—to careers in business. “He taught by the case method, and made sure we had real-life experiences,” Lambert says, recalling a field trip to General Motors in Detroit. “Professor Fitzhugh saw business as a way for the black...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The...
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- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
commons”: issues where stakeholders with different agendas and clashing cultures each own part of the problem and must each play a role in the solution. That makes collaboration essential, no matter how unlikely the partnerships might seem. A good View Details
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Ralph Ranalli
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
experiences and internships around the world. While in Boston, Shibayama became close with some Boston University students and was surprised by the prominence of the liberal arts at American universities, which was not the case in Japan....
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
politics? The work I did at the business school was extremely helpful, especially the problem solving you learn with case studies. They provide experience that would take years and years to accumulate otherwise.
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- 01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined
that maximizing profits is wrong, or that self-interest is morally repugnant. But things got out of hand. Consider, for example, the case of Wriston, who was really the father of financialization. As a top executive and later head of...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Leadership in the Digital Age
six HBS Global Research Centers, Hill and her Leadership Initiative team hosted a series of virtual roundtable discussions on the pressing issues that accompany digital transformation. The goal: to examine how leadership has evolved in the 21st century and to produce...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2012
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Speak English, Please!
spoke English at the time. Mikitani’s move was radical and divisive. He even coined a term for the conversion: “Englishnization.” “This issue is explosive,” says HBS assistant professor Tsedal Neeley, who tracks the company’s journey in her View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes
all, say Professor Krishna G. Palepu and Assistant Professor Tarun Khanna, authors of "Corporate Strategies for Business Groups in Emerging Markets," a working paper slated to be published (under a different title) in the July-August issue of the Harvard Business...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2016
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New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
Kitty Hawk. They were just two hard-working brothers, very unassuming, who helped change the world.” Harvard had been on Chad Losee’s (MBA 2013) radar since a middle school history trip that included a stop in Harvard Yard, but a post-college visit to an HBS View Details
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Dan Morrell