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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
Paine: The book had its origins in the preparations for celebrating the Centennial of HBS in 2008. The School was founded because important Harvard alumni discussed with President Eliot their observation...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
Four European entrepreneurs joined HBS Professors Howard Stevenson and Walter Kuemmerle to explore these questions in the Global Alumni Conference breakout session "Entrepreneurship in Europe."...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS View Details
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
COPPEAD/UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, who spoke for the Brazilian group, suggested plugging into the extensive network of Harvard and HBS alumni. "There are about 600 Harvard alumni in Brazil who could be a useful...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
How do real-world conditions and shifting personal priorities influence a young MBA's early career path—those first five to ten years that executives remember as being of such critical importance? To find out, Harvard Business School professor David A. Thomas gathered...
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by Julia Hanna
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
make HBS a vibrant, innovative, principled place, a place that our alumni will be proud of, and a place that will earn the trust and the respect of the society we serve. That's my commitment.
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by Kim B. Clark
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic...
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by Garry Emmons
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-122 Brent Grinna is evaluating different options for the technology development of his start-up's iPhone app, including hiring local programmers, finding a CTO, or outsourcing. He only has a little over two months before he...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
economic performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-108.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsRospil.info Paul M. Healy, Karthik Ramanna, and Matthew ShafferHarvard Business School Case 112-033 What should business leaders do about corruption? In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
history to the future improvement of business management, HBS on Thursday announced the creation of the Business History Initiative, a multidisciplinary research and teaching effort that will take its place alongside five other...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
High on every agenda as well, of course, is the use and impact of technology, and that was the focus of a Global Alumni Conference session hosted by HBS professor Richard Nolan. Titled "Technology and...
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by James E. Aisner
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
scale infrastructure issues on a global level. A related case, "Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City," HBS No. 210-085, contains more real estate finance and less water infrastructure finance material than this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
It's a pittance in the West. A loan of only $500 to $1,200, however, can make all the difference for a man or woman eking out a living in the developing world. Just that much—the typical range of microfinance loans, according to Michael Chu, a poverty expert and View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
deceptive veneer of familiarity, cultural gulfs and local differences often remain hidden. There is an increasingly international style of management.— John Quelch, HBS Amid these conflicting realities, however, Harvard Business School...
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by Garry Emmons