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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
This spring, while the Class of 1998 was preparing to leave HBS to launch promising careers in business management, they, along with the entire HBS community, were also struggling to come to terms with a disturbing situation that existed... View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
increase in information technology purchases. Wulf notes that the 1986-1999 time frame was especially significant in terms of corporate technology. The 1990s marked an era when PC prices started falling, when dot-com companies started... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
courage to finally do so myself. The Social Enterprise Fellowship has provided tremendous resources that have allowed me to improve the program and guided me toward the longer term thinking that is necessary to scale and continue the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
through education. Armed with a great education, it doesn’t matter where you came from. What I would say to younger people who are thinking about what they want to do in life is do something you’re passionate about. And then you’ll achieve success and happiness on... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
has more than paid off, in terms of their pioneering work in muscle biology and professional development.” Family and Lifelong HBS Friends The winner of the 2014 Lou Gehrig Iron Horse Award from the ALS Therapy Development Institute, a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
United States's third-largest trading partner, and Washington has loaned Mexico billions to rescue its economy. In terms of Mexican population, Los Angeles is second only to Mexico City. On these two fronts alone, the next crisis in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
second-largest private employer in the United States. Will the current crisis drive improvements in pay and benefits? CC: In terms of numbers, it’s hard to see an environment where there will be meaningfully more people working in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
institution; a number of volunteer student organizations were formed to reach out to the surrounding community; and the term "social responsibility" found its way into case discussions with some degree of regularity. "Looking back, those... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
inequality is measured in terms of opportunity or the actual accumulation of varying levels of income and wealth. Inequality is inevitable and perhaps necessary in a free society, according to one line of thought. As Guy Higgins put it,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
for leaders who want to make wise decisions, rather than simply beat the other party. Which would you prefer? Most people choose Option A—the benefits of the tradeoff are quite clear. Yet the U.S. government, yielding to what psychologists View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
It’s amazing how many providers are striving for the same thing: to serve all patients, all needs, and through all channels. Professor Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg in their book, Redefining Health Care, use the term... View Details
Walter C. Teagle
Teagle rose threw the ranks of Standard Oil after joining in 1901, making a name for himself through his managing of the company’s international operations after the anti-trust breakup in the early 1910s. Throughout his term as president... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
behavior: the promotion of good deeds or the prevention of bad deeds. It turns out that employees tend to act more ethically when focused on what not to do. That can be problematic in firms where success is commonly framed in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- Profile
Janina Motter
an operations manager with a team of six. As the company expanded to fifty people, “I saw a bit of a plateau in terms of how much I could contribute. I needed skills that fell on the MBA side: how to raise funding, how to manage human... View Details
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Jeff Bernstein
terms of the roles I can play in a team environment. I know when to lead, when to follow." "HBS is also second to none in resources," Jeff says. "You get a world-class faculty, extraordinary interactions with your... View Details
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How to Apply | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
have a US bank account you are also able to enroll in electronic payment via Zelle. Instructions to do this will be provided through the Buy2Pay payment portal. For spring term participants: please submit your Expense Form and related... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
Martin, associate director of MBA Recruiting Services, notes that 88 percent of students report that the job they accepted was their first choice in terms of function. “We ask students to prioritize their career search relative to three... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
leads the loan syndicate (parent-financed deals). Bank-affiliated deals are similar in characteristics and financing to stand-alone deals but have worse outcomes if consummated during the peaks of the credit market. Parent-financed deals enjoy significantly better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
production methods. But the payoffs have not been nearly as dramatic for service industries applying lean principles. HBS professor David Upton and doctoral student Bradley Staats look at the experience of Indian software services provider Wipro for answers. Key... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
When You Speak, This Group Listens
succeed those whose three-year terms have expired. For information on nominations, visit the board’s Web site: www.alumni.hbs.edu/volunteers/alumniboard.html. — Saquib Shirazi (MBA ’95) is CEO of Atlas Honda in Karachi, Pakistan, where he... View Details