James Baker - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Sep 2021
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HBS Club of London: David Halpern on How to Apply Behavioural Science to Behavior

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

students began to attack these cases by working together. The goal was threefold, says Dr. James Young, executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: Watson was to help doctors get better at diagnosing illnesses and... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Feb 2001
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Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future

I knew there had to be a hitch when HBS invited its alumni volunteers — fund agents, reunion organizers, and my fellow Class Notes correspondents — back to campus in early November for two days of free food and learning. Sure enough, when I opened my registration... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; alumni; volunteers; conferences; cases; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

across the country. The opening day of the conference featured a welcome from HBS African-American Alumni Association president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA 1974). His remarks were followed by a management seminar, conducted by HBS professor emeritus View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019

Baker Library drew on its extensive Lehman Brothers Collection to launch an exhibit in the Library’s lobby and online examining Lehman’s rise, its reach into nearly every sector of the American economy, and the impact of its collapse.... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

telecommunications." McFarlan, in fact, was involved in overseeing one of the earliest regular uses of computers in the MBA Program when the "Business Game" became an annual exercise for generations of MBAs beginning in the mid-1960s. Originally introduced by then... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

most effectively. As a fuller illustration of a Level II negotiator helping the other side with its formidable behind-the-table challenges, I pay special attention to the end-of-Cold-War negotiations over German reunification in which former U.S. Secretary of State... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

curriculum for two decades. In 1948, Harvard's Research Center in Entrepreneurial History was established. The intellectual leaders of this scholarly group were Joseph Schumpeter, the Harvard economist, and Arthur H. Cole, a professor of business economics at Harvard... View Details

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

negotiations over German reunification in which former United States Secretary of State James Baker played a key role. Is a Nuclear Deal with Iran Possible? An Analytical Framework for the Iran Nuclear... View Details