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- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
affect positive change.” Do you apply some of what you learned in the military to The Mission Continues? If so, can you tell us how? “Absolutely. Going to a community meeting in Los Angeles, Phoenix, or Seattle is not at all unlike... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
United States and Mexico have shrunk dramatically, its system is still somewhat foreign to a private businessman from the United States or Western Europe," adds Maurer. "The culture of a country like South Korea may be alien to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
class. He re-upped after 9/11 and spent seven months in Afghanistan before moving on to Iraq. For his “professional and heroic” actions of March 20, 2003, on the Iraq-Kuwait border (described below), Gurfein was awarded the Bronze Star. We’re View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
students was given four assets to sell to classmates, and I constrained the deal process so that they would have to either auction or negotiate. But despite my efforts to keep the two mechanisms pure, auctions regularly devolved into View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
and style and meeting deadlines, six days a week, three cases a day. By 6 p.m. on Saturday, your Written Analysis of Cases paper had to go down the chute [at Baker Library]. If it was 6:01, that chute just discarded your work. I needed an... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
the sophisticated human resource levers his predecessors left him. Immelt questions whether the changes in place will foster the development of the next generation of GE growth leaders. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
we’ve completely gutted the right of workers to organize in the private sector, to be heard in the workplace, which is a fundamental human right. That needs to be restored. Not just because it’s a fundamental human right, but because it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
sometimes tragic personal life. “Light and chipper in public,” McCraw writes, the charming and generous Schumpeter “lived an altogether different life in private — a continuing, desperate internal struggle with melancholy.” Excerpts from... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
health care system could similarly gather and publish relevant data on health care prices and outcomes. Then corporations could see which clinicians, hospitals, insurers, and others provide the best value. The good ones would thrive, and the bad ones would have to... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Leadership and Diversity at HBS
City. His determination and grit from the football field translated well to the workplace, and he later went on to work in private equity before applying to HBS. We checked in with Bruce to learn more about his time at HBS and his... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources for International Students
international students and the global job search outside of the U.S. While we are based in Boston, we continually build our global network of organizations that would like to hire HBS MBAs, from a mid-market private equity firm in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
President’s singling out manufacturing for “special treatment”—something they say no industry should get. But the reality is that special treatment has always been a fact of life, and it would be naive to think that’s suddenly going to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
for a significant “rebirth” against my wife’s giving up a highly successful career that she greatly enjoyed. We also wanted to go into a situation where both of us could be highly productive and effective, so finding a country where... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
George: I teach governance and serve on many corporate boards, and I can tell you that once you make the decision to go from a wholly-owned private company to go public, you're... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
moment Vescovo was the only one who knew that—at 10,928 meters below sea level—he had traveled deeper than any human before him. His name would go in the record books alongside others who had pushed themselves to the extreme: Roald... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
across multiple types of necessary evils: Have pairs or teams perform these tasks together. Create ample time and space after these tasks for people to decompress and debrief. Provide the right physical environment—a quiet, private area... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Urban Waste Entrepreneurs John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 211-086 Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
his analysis of our low-mindedness is right — and right it seems to be in the light of such statistics as he can muster — our craving for entertainment is so insatiable that most of us give ourselves up wholeheartedly to joy-riding, dancing, games, sports, listening to... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Location Strategies to Strengthen Competitive Advantage No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715418-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-416 Why Do Firms Go Abroad? Strategies to Create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne