by Paul Healy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

today. Many of the field studies are oriented toward problems faced by small companies. Running and Growing the Small Company, an elective taught by Paul Marshall and Kent... View Details

22 Dec 2022
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LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway

regularly for support around personal, family, and business matters. Modeled on the concept developed by the Young President's Organization (YPO), the forums were pioneered over 20 years ago by Bob Halperin... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

sponsored concurrent fact-finding trips to the area. Designed both to introduce students to northern California's booming industries and to help them in their job searches, the January trips also included a networking event with HBS professor Steven C. Wheelwright and... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

evaluation began when he was a graduate student in applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and intensified in the late 1960s, when he went to MIT to study economics under Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. At MIT, he... View Details

02 Mar 2011
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Last Look - March 2011

class is being taught by General Mills.” David Krieger (MBA ’00) and Beth Ferguson (MBA ’01) agreed. Beth provided details: “These chorus women were the troops to General Mills (Andrew Vogel)Â as he sang ‘I am the very model of a modern... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

Edited by Jennifer Gillespie FOUR FOUNDERS From left: Clifford Darden, Lillian Lincoln Lambert, Theodore Lewis, and Leroy Willis (photos courtesy of HBS Archives) Just over 50 years ago, at the end of a summer that saw race riots across... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products, firms, and markets are all derived... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

capital. For more than a quarter-century, the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

socialism succeeds and fails, and to grasp its evolution and potential horizons, we must do more than read manifestos. We must attend to history. Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies By Ranjay Gulati, View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

observer at all corporation board meetings. However, in order to be effective, the guidance provided by law should be more detailed than it is at present. In addition, the SEC ought to give guidance on remuneration of executives. Monroe... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

Floor hand Ray Gerrish works to make repairs on a drilling rig outside Watford City. Employees work around the clock at Raven Rig No. 1, one of more than 150 oil rigs in the Bakken. (photos by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Press... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Games 1972J. Section A started our bingo game in the second term of our first year (1971). Cards had the names of roughly a third of the class (24 of 75) on them (5 each for B, I, G, and O and 4 plus... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization

Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

degrees, apprenticeships, and occupational learning. Faculty Books Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy by Paul B. Brown, Charles F. Kiefer, and Leonard... View Details

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

CEO and cofounder, Saeju Jeong, accepted the award and shared the company’s success story during the online “fireside chat” organized and cohosted by HBSANC board member and dinner chair Ben Dubin (MBA 1997) and HBSANC president and board... View Details