Power And Politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2015
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Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

powerful ways as a School, as a community, and as individuals, as we strive to embody the mission of the School to ‘make a difference in the world’.” As part of the Campaign, the School has created a website... View Details

22 Mar 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Tuesday, March 21, more than 100 alumni in Southern California gathered to celebrate View Details

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

working to eliminate systemic racism. “My dad and my brothers and I, we feel so strongly about the potential and power of this fund,” Josh Kraft,... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity

experience organizing the conference highlighted the power of the HBS network. “We drew on the Rolodexes of all our club members to find panelists and speakers, and the faculty... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue

accident, which means they are “worse than dead” because they lose their earning power and become a burden for the rest of the family to support. Raju floated the idea to various colleagues, including his... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500 scene—first growing eBay from a staff... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Jun 2001
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Books: Judo Strategy

by David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak Harvard Business School Press By mastering the principles of movement, balance, and leverage, practitioners of judo, a centuries-old martial art, learn to overcome more View Details

Keywords: Microsoft; Netscape; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Mar 2019
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California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

Webster, Alumni Engagement Manager at BEI, the major takeaways from the event emphasized both the opportunity and the urgency that the business community faces in confronting climate change. “There is an opportunity, if not a requirement,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

going to happen in an accelerating way over the next seven to 15 years in the U.S. And as we start to see a few states really become exemplars and people can see how powerful... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Swimming with the Stream

just a jogging soundtrack. “How can I be the person people think of when they think about power and inspiration? How can I be the go-to destination for music and feminism?” she... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Herman I. Safin

political reforms of perestroika -- Safin's educational and professional background has prepared him well for a career in the global economy. The winner of the first public elections ever held at his high... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Nov 2013
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Selling Crafts with a Story

craft by employing the powerful effect of storytelling. It's proven powerful enough to put an end to those "pre-work" work meetings. In late 2012, Koss and Paranjape were able... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; crafts; hobbies; ecommerce; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2005
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A Star in LA

SOHN: playing it safe in 2005. His star power is such that he’s been called “the Korean version of Alan Greenspan,” and indeed, when Sung Won Sohn (PMD 35, 1978) was named president View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

see was frustration. I began to realize there's a greater power at work in society than we humans possess even in our most influential posts. So I started thinking, reading, and trying to discover for myself... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

arm’ s length, that inherent cronyism makes it difficult to clean house when high-level insiders turn out to be bad apples. A CEO once said to me, “Business is the last monarchy.” All the recent disclosures about the incredible privileges, perks, View Details

01 Mar 2012
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How to Close the Health Gap

In developed countries, tuberculosis has been nearly eradicated, thanks to good nutrition and antibiotics. But those remedies are not available to 90 percent of the world’s population, and 1.7 million people... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

sustainably,” he says. “That’s what powers us and powers our entire team. The dream behind Lidya is it should be easier for the next generation to follow their dreams.” But the... View Details