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Richard G. Hamermesh
Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative and of the HBS/Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator. As chair of the Healthcare Initiative, Richard was instrumental in expanding the role of healthcare in MBA education and research. Today, over 12% of students...
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Richard S. Tedlow
Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia in 1971 and 1976 respectively. He came to the Harvard Business School on a fellowship in 1978 and joined the faculty in 1979. From 1979...
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Richard L. Nolan
Professor Nolan earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Production and Operations Research in 1962, and his M.B.A and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1966, respectively. Upon graduation in 1966, he joined Boeing Commercial Airplane Company as an Information Technology manager in the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company 737 Program. In 1968, he joined the Harvard Business School as an Associate...
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Richard S. Ruback
Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially on corporate-control transactions and valuation. His course development work parallels his research interests. He has taught a variety of corporate finance courses...
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Richard H.K. Vietor
Professor Vietor is Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He teaches courses on the international political economy. Before coming to the Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the University of Missouri at Columbia. He received a B.A. in economics from Union College (1967), an M.A....
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Richard F. Meyer
Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a consultant to major corporations both in the U.S. and in Europe. He has been on the faculty of the Harvard Business School since...
- December 2005 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
Cynthia Fisher and the Rearing of ViaCell
By: Robert F. Higgins, Richard G. Hamermesh and Ingrid Vargas
Describes the start up of Viacord, a Boston-based medical services firm founded by Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA) in 1993. Told from Fisher's perspective, the entrepreneur details the conceptualization and launch of the business and the many obstacles and expenses faced in... View Details
- October 1982 (Revised September 1988)
- Case
Steven B. Belkin
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Steven Belkin, 26 years old and 2 1/2 years out of HBS, has decided to leave a group travel company he has run for the last year to start his own similar business. In the course of several months he has written a business plan, attracted several partners and employees,... View Details
- January 2008 (Revised January 2009)
- Teaching Note
Cynthia Fisher and the Rearing of ViaCell (TN)
By: Robert F. Higgins, Richard G. Hamermesh and Erin Seefeld
Teaching Note for [806002]. View Details
Keywords: Management
- September 1994
- Case
Marks & Spencer: Sir Richard Greenbury's Quiet Revolution
By: Joseph L. Bower and John B. Matthews Jr.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is one of the world's greatest companies. In 1994, its management was chosen the most admired in Europe by 637 peers. The case explores how Sir Richard Greenbury, appointed the new chairman of the company in 1991, transformed his inheritance into... View Details
- February 1988 (Revised November 1994)
- Background Note
Note on Fundamental Parity Conditions
By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
Provides a simple framework for analyzing expected exchange rate movements. Basic parity and equilibrium conditions are presented including purchasing power parity, forward parity, interest rate parity, the domestic Fisher effect, and the international Fisher effect... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
operations intertwined. Working Together in Crises Authors:Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch", and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:Crisis Response Journal Abstract No abstract available. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2016
- Working Paper
Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War
By: James K. Sebenius and Eugene B. Kogan
President Richard M. Nixon was elected in 1968 with the widespread expectation that he would bring about an end to the costly and unpopular war in Vietnam. The task largely fell to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. When the negotiations began, North Vietnam... View Details
- September 2008 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Traversing a Career Path: Pat Fili-Krushel (A)
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
Pat Fili-Krushel, CEO and president of WebMD and past president of ABC Network, contemplates accepting Richard Parson's offer to become the first executive vice president of administration at AOL Time Warner. Accepting this position would be a move back into mainstream... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
continual streams of requests for personal information and by the equally unavoidable barrage of personal information about others. Read the paper: http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/acquisti_herding-out.pdf Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2008 (Revised March 2009)
- Supplement
Traversing a Career Path: Pat Fili-Krushel (B)
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real estate and facilities, and other administrative roles for the combined company. She... View Details
- February 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
On January 5, 2010, 48-year-old Richard Canny was on his way to meet the governor of Indiana. He was reading his newly issued press release announcing that THINK planned to start automobile production in Elkhart County, Indiana to launch its THINK City battery-operated... View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
Working PapersFrom Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark Authors:Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member of the Technology and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
on math increased math scores by 0.47 standard deviation. One year after the programs were over initial gains remained significant for targeted children, but they faded to about 0.10 standard deviation. The Rise of In-Store Clinics—Threat or Opportunity? Author:Bohmer,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
for Competitive Advantage, edited by Jeffrey Word. Jossey-Bass, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470528346,descCd-tableOfContents.html Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship Authors: Ramana Nanda... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Improving Infant Mortality Rates: The Impact of Front-line Staff Collaboration on Neonatal Care (revised) Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Jeffrey D. Horbar, and Joseph H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
rate. We discuss the implications of our findings for retail inventory and assortment planning and for the design of retail stores. Working PapersDoes Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
demanding a custom feature that would be unusually disruptive to develop. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811075-PDF-ENG Utilis: Designing, Producing, and Selling Rapid Deployment Shelters for a Troubled World Herman View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
markets place on the pinnacle of quality, the enduring nature of reputation, and the effect of endogenous quality choices on status effect estimates. August 2013 American Psychologist J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013) By: Wageman, Ruth, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12
transaction costs and supplier hold-up. The (A) case closes with the question of what GM should do about supplier Fisher Body. The (B) case summarizes the shift to all-steel body stamping and engine manufacturing as the core technologies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne