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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 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
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Watkins, an expert on leadership transition, presses his case for “accelerating” the critical transition period that begins when a new CEO — or a new manager at any level — is hired. Watkins estimates that more than a half-million...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
program's first case discussion, led by Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration. Using the case of BMG music-industry executive Rudolf Gassner (38th PMD), Hill instigated a...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 25 Jun 2018
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An Unfinished Story
grout that hold it together. Without this bond it is nothing but a pile of rocks. You argue that immigrants are essential to the cultural fabric of the nation, but you also make a strong business case for immigration. We need immigrants...
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April White
- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back on campus. Her experience,...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
might easily convince anyone that the old adage is true: “Business ethics” is a contradiction in terms. But ironically, says HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine, it may well be the steady rise in expectations for corporate behavior that has helped bring such View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
phrase industrial internet. And there was nobody really to work with when we started. So you know, we invested money and things like that. So again, I go back to the point on stamina, where, in the case of GE Digital—sure there was...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
is that their employees have a sense of emotional safety and can bring their best selves to work. The same is true in sports, especially when you have younger athletes performing under immense pressure.” Decision point: “I was cold called on a View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved being in the classroom and was...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
republic was failing,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration. Moss is the author of the acclaimed 2017 book Democracy: A Case Study, which grew out of a popular Harvard course he created on the history...
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Deb Blagg
- 23 May 2018
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John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
business, across the different types and functions of business,” he says. “The case method made learning exciting and instilled a problem-solving focus.” After earning his MBA as a Baker Scholar and spending two years with the Boston...
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Susan Young
- 13 Jun 2014
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The Art of Effecting Change
to create successful frameworks. "At VIA, we're doing the same thing." A case in point was artist Doug Aitken's high-reaching Station to Station, a "cultural happening" that took the form of a nine-car, cross-country train ride that...
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- 24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business
crowd-funding and the end of the prohibition of solicitation for private placements." What the iCrowd founders have learned, however, is that laws may be passed quickly, but their implementation can take time. In the case of the JOBS Act,...
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