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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
discussion forward by posing questions or drawing links between others’ comments, present relevant examples from personal experience or constructively critique positions, sharpen the class’s understanding of issues, or deepen an ongoing...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
and enhancement of the student residential experience, and a successful $500 million capital campaign that included the opening of the Spangler and Rock Centers, the construction of Hawes Hall, and the renovation of Baker Library. Shortly...
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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
Taking this added step can enable you to complete the task proficiently and respond constructively to the needs of those on the receiving end. Q: At a company level, did you find best practices around necessary evils? A: For companies,...
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by Martha Lagace
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Joseph Blair
It’s difficult to imagine Joe Blair standing still. A triathlete, currently training for a “half-Ironman” in the summer of 2013, Joe runs self-timed marathons. In his former life as an engineer, he took a great deal of pleasure tooling around the test grounds in a...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking took place in early June for Hawes Hall, a new classroom building that will be constructed adjacent to the northeast corner of Aldrich Hall, facing Baker Library. Dean Kim B. Clark opened the ceremony by welcoming the Hawes...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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what it might look like in the future. Challenges in Managing Large Projects by J. Ronald Fox and Donn B. Miller (Defense Acquisition University Press) How do the challenges of managing multibillion-dollar engineering, development, and View Details
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
And new road construction is promising. "Increasingly, rural areas are becoming more and more central to growth," he said. "Build a road into a village and increasingly that road becomes connected to the Indian...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 9
U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program with an Alabama assembly facility. In January 2009 it had just completed the construction of its first LCS, but the global economic crisis put the company in a difficult position. Its...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Raising the Barrio
vocational schools are scheduled to open in the barrio. They will be the first public schools in a community where only about 60 percent of adults have finished secondary school. A massive construction project is also under way to reroute...
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April White
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Carol Lauson
Carol Lauson's father owned his own construction company, an enterprise, she says, "that didn't necessarily pique my interest in business, but gave me an early exposure to it." As she got older, awareness turned into more direct...
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- 24 Feb 2022
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African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
infrastructure modernization, economic diversification, environmental resilience, social and cultural innovation. Like the work of O.W. Gurley and J.B. Stradford, founders of the historic Greenwood district known as Black Wall Street, I will build on their ingenuity to...
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
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self–determined, moral act in organizing ourselves to address such societal issues of racism, poverty, neglect, exclusion and tokenism," AASU co–founder A. Leroy Willis (MBA '69) wrote. 21 In December 1969, AASU students voiced their concerns about the hiring of...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America
environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2004
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Home Sweet (Modular) Home
drag on for weeks. Greentech’s solution? Stuntz plans to acquire a small finish-work construction company to guarantee timely completion of future projects. After an initial rush of orders, Greentech’s assembly line fell silent last...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Transforming Baker Library
that restored Mellon Hall. The project gained momentum in the late spring with the precisely orchestrated migration of library materials and over two hundred people from the building. As of July 2, Baker Library was empty, and the View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
my dad, and I listen to 15 minutes before bed every night. There’s a lot that goes over my head, but there’s at least one lesson that speaks to me every day. —Mira Mehta (MBA 2014) Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey...
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- 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016
spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency credit spreads are positive and sizable. Compared with credit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
the United States as part of its own self-contained region. Regional strategies can take a long time to implement. Leading-edge companies are starting to grapple with these definitional issues. For example, firms in sectors as diverse as View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat