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01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

FDA to work 1 million acres of forest, a concession worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Every word of the company’s forty-page proposal was plagiarized from a U.S. Forest Service report on woodlands 7,000 miles away. And even though I... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

members dependent on the person they’re supposed to supervise for compensation, information, perks, committee assignments, and, often, their very presence at the table. More Regulations Not the Answer America’s most successful investor, Warren Buffett, has long been a... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

Publications January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken, and F. Gino... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

Healthcare Limited Grow your organization’s new product or service effectively with limited budgets and resources. "HBS Online courses are excellent for anyone who wishes to learn more about a particular subject area or further develop... View Details

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2021
News

Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 1997
News

Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

"Multimedia and the Boundaryless Organization." With the creation of services such as online newspapers and television home shopping, information has become a commodity itself, replacing physical products and services. Associate Professor... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

01 Mar 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

public services and infrastructure have been most directly affected by an influx of Syrian refugees. The refugee crisis is a global problem, not just that of a few countries.” Native tongue: Igbo. “My... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

across a dozen jurisdictions in Asia. Being educated and having worked in Asia, the United States, and Europe has given me a measure of appreciation of the diversity in cultural and business practices. Moreover, serving on various public... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

June 2018
Supplement

Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (C)

By: Marco Di Maggio, Benjamin C. Esty and Gregory Saldutte

Analyzes Snap’s value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the (B) case. View Details

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12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

31 Jul 2012
News

Lessons from Building a Business

Keywords: Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services

01 Mar 2013
News

Sir Martin Sorrell on What's Next

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Profile

Deborah A. Farrington

When Deborah Farrington and her two sisters were growing up, their mother and father made it clear to all of them at an early age that they could do anything they set their minds to. Her father worked in financial services at Lehman... View Details

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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

global economy. From the beginning, the significance of the theory and research being developed by the School was evident. Communicating the leading business issues of the day began with the publication of the first Harvard Business... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Fall Reunions

the classroom, with topics ranging from business opportunities in emerging markets to biotech to management challenges in public education. And once the cold-call jitters were over, there was ample time for catching up with old... View Details

Keywords: reunions; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

cannot be successful unless they show vulnerability, are consistent, take time to be balanced, have a vision, and embrace their role as decision-makers. In the 2010 case “Toby Johnson: Leading After School,” Johnson, with military service... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers

into public stock offerings capitalizing on the boom, only to experience financial heartache when the bubble burst. Sound like the Internet revolution of the 1990s? Try the radio revolution of the 1920s. In a presentation to alumni at a... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Microsoft; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

11 Aug 2011
News

Heard on the Street and the She-E-Os

students. Although the current groups do not perform at the Boston Pops concerts as the Tycoons had, their music is publicized by means of a CD recording every year. According to Laurent de Vitton de Peyruis (MBA 2003K), recording that... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

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