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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A talent scout for tomorrow’s Africa
Williams talks to prospects, writes to them, reviews their resumes and essays, and, as part of Prospective Students Day activities for the annual Africa Business Conference, meets with them personally. “I help them put their best foot... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
When Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever prepared to write The Capitalist's Dilemma for the June issue of Harvard Business Review, they took an approach rarely tried on the same scale: They outsourced it with 150 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. As part of a first-year required course, MBA students are asked to imagine that it’s their 10th reunion and write an alumni profile—detailing their first decade... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
individual’s preferences. Regardless of their decision, the patent examiners were 4.4 percent more productive than their work-from-home peers. The future may be entirely remote for some companies, says Choudhury, who is currently writing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
his business background may also be a valuable asset in what he sees as the "tough times ahead" for health-care management. "Insurance companies used to write a check for just about anything a physician wanted to do, but today medicine is... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
young, Wiley was a pioneer in negotiating a flexible schedule for her public policy consulting work with Urban Systems Research and Engineering. "Of course, as a working parent, any choice you make is demanding," she cautions, remembering late nights of research and... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Relations in Organizations The workplace remains the primary locus of racial interaction in American society; as such, it is a valuable, albeit neglected area for research, write HBS associate professor David A. Thomas and Karen L.... View Details
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Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library
We recognize that transparency will be the ultimate measure of our progress. Write ethical and inclusive description that gives voice to those who may have previously been omitted, underrepresented, or marginalized in our description.... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
School’s Hong Luo, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit, studies entrepreneurship in Hollywood. Like other entrepreneurs, screenwriters struggle with the decision of how to advance their product. Should they pitch just a story line for a film or View Details
- 17 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
If Marketing Experts Ran Elections
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.For all the coverage of the Presidential... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 05 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service
and culminated in writing a proposal for an in-house summer program to replace a state funded initiative that was suspended due to COVID-19. John Laydon (MBA 2020), Faith Lyons (MBA 2020), Daniel Ocampo (MBA 2020), Darius Onul, John Poppe... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Exploring Cleantech at HBS
write a case on a challenge they are facing, or do a high level industry scan to explore a broader trend. Cleantech can be a risky career choice – businesses are often highly capital intensive and vulnerable to commodity prices and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
the HBS community are already familiar with Lynn and her capacity for leadership at the intersection of business and social and environmental issues. Lynn initially joined HBS in 2017 to write case studies for a new course in impact... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
can respond appropriately to demand, lean inventories, and the rapid replenishment of stock. "The old way was to gear planning and production decisions to forecasts and guesses made months in advance of a selling season," write Hammond... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
and the MBA elective The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. Koehn's research and writing focus on branding, business strategy, and connecting with customers and on the broad range of economic, social, and organizational transitions that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
real estate in particular, Poorvu began teaching Real Property Asset Management and Field Studies in Real Property and writing cases at HBS in 1965. A former faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Poorvu is the author or... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
New Year, New Career Goals: Coaches Offer Advice for 2019
a priority this year! Do you want to develop a skill that needs some work? Are there strengths you have that are not being developed in your current role? Are there new systems you'd like to learn? Identify an area for improvement and put together your own training... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
while working at McKinsey. So he began tinkering with stories, eventually making a pact with himself during business school: “I decided to write two hours a day—and if I actually had something to say, maybe I was a writer. By the end of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact
explains Bradach, who also served on HBS's faculty from 1992 to 1998. He and the firm continue to have close ties to the School, and, through the years, Bridgespan has assisted HBS professors in writing several social enterprise cases.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
words on a piece of paper will not stop unethical behavior, where steep fines and prison have failed to do so.” Writing in BusinessWeek.com’s online debate over the oath, INSEAD finance professor Theo Vermaelen warned that signing it was... View Details