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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
management itself, the times seem ripe for reopening the question of what exactly this institution is for, what functions we as a society want it to perform, and how well it is performing them. Great... View Details
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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
approaches that may (or may not) work for you. Record and listen back to yourself to reflect on your conversational performance and progress. Become hypervigilant about conversation dynamics (this feeling will dissipate over time). Feel... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs previously ignored.” Leger is the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 16 May 2015
- Blog Post
Using an MBA to Reimagine the Music Industry
applicable in a business context but also in my personal life. Sometimes I think of HBS as “life school”! What’s your favorite memory? My favorite memory is when my LEAD professor, Ryan Raffaelli, wrote a song for our class on the last... View Details
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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
Events Recap Lex Schroeder Author tag Board Diversity HBS Alums on the Future of the Board Room (and How to Get There) Joining a corporate board can mean making a lasting impact on companies of the future.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
The Quantified Athlete “Athletes will always look to improve their performance and stay injury-free with technology. But the sports media industry is also starting to explore how to incorporate athlete data... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
sensitive to one's organizational capabilities and competitive priorities. And the same is true of improvement efforts. People (and too many books directed at managers) often appear to assume that the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Skooter, his wife of sixty years, as she accompanied him on work-related trips to foreign countries. A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry by David H. Gaylin (MBA 1979)... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
life plan), and CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas. Today Weinstein is the president and CEO of the Brevard Music Center, an institute and summer festival for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
services organization cofounded by Tierney and Jeff Bradach, then a member of the HBS faculty and now Bridgespan’s managing partner. The organization works to boost the performance View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
packaging. Resource Efficiency. In 2004, Grolsch had a beer-to-water ratio of 1:5.5, indicating a high water intensity of beer production. By 2022 they had gotten that ratio down to 1:3.8 and are continuing... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the health View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authors argue that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions, half of which are unsuccessful because this key factor is neglected. This practical manual helps managers optimize and streamline their growth... View Details
- Student-Profile
Rowan Clarke
and data, or to make determinations about who to supply with finance and how much to provide,” Rowan continues. These cutting-edge approaches might look at firms’ transaction histories to improve performance... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
question is: In the wreckage of a collapsed building, whose labels do you find? Often, the activist community will point their fingers at the brands for basically enabling those factories to exist and to View Details
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Latin America - Global Activities 2020
that question, which is, six months from now, of the people who were lucky enough to get emergency credit during the pandemic and could stay open, is there a persistent difference between them and those... View Details
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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog
spring course, Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) 1418, students cannot take both of them. Career Focus This course provides a general management perspective on corporate finance and is designed to View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
to do the same work as her. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of gender discrimination,” she observes. The knowledge that women across Australia have endured similar—and often far... View Details
Keywords: April White