Knowledge Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Books

while also respecting humanistic values. They lay out the positivist, social constructionist, and postmodernist perspectives on the theory of educational organization to help readers develop new ways of thinking about organizational... View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

knowledge of a market tends to make it more efficient and to intensify competition," Sprinkle noted. "This means that each of us had better start experimenting in this realm right now." At lunch the next day, Vincent H. Tobkin (MBA '75)... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Jun 1998
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Generation Next

November, the School offered a new Executive Education program, Families in Business: From Generation to Generation. The five-day program, designed for teams of two to eight members of a family business, examines pivotal issues and provides state-of-the-art View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

involving the development of a “Center and Museum of Tolerance,” to be housed at the University of Mississippi; and, most important and personal, Hope for a Cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Berman provides a blueprint for realizing... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full

limited upside (no chance of brand extension, no reselling to existing customers), but you have to pay for customer acquisition even inside Amazon. Shopify requires you to invest in many things beyond product development and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Aug 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

direction the School is taking. There is also a wealth of resources online to bring you closer to the School's resources, such as Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu) and eBaker, a video library of faculty presentations... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

importance of respect and personal affection for one's business colleagues. In 1986, his trust in his own business partner was violated in an incident involving the sale of SABO stock without his knowledge or approval. Mindful of the key... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

22 Feb 2022
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The Well-Healed Athlete

healing remains underdeveloped. Athletes, from the casual joggers to elite ultramarathon runners and everyone in between, often rely on untested hypotheses and folk wisdom to develop training and recovery regimens, Wu Tsai explains.... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 1996
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New Releases

Promises by D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen (HBS Press) What happened to IBM? That is the question posed by authors Quinn Mills, the School's Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, and Bruce Friesen (MBA '85), View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice

Whether or not game theory has applications for business strategy remains unclear - to date, empirical studies have been too limited to yield any definitive conclusions. In Games Businesses Play: Cases and Modules, HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat addresses this View Details

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

the Racial Equity Plan (REP), which was developed last summer by members of the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and launched in September. “There always have been people dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion at HBS, and the new... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

forum for discussion. But as knowledge of life sciences develops alongside even swifter advances in technology, it seems inevitable that biotechnology's influence will be felt to a profound degree well... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2000
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Capturing Human Capital

expansion of the service-based economy, rapid technological innovation, deregulation and privatization, and today's knowledge revolution as forces that are "driving companies to fundamentally rethink their business models and radically... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

mills in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and examined the company’s milling equipment. (photo by Mariana Cal) Alvarez spent time in Argentina working on “Molino Cañuelas: Serving Customers from Seed Development to the Kitchen Table,” a case he... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their careers, students who take HBS elective courses in... View Details

28 Jan 2011
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HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation

With overwhelming support, the HBS faculty in mid-January approved the most significant changes to the MBA program in decades, affecting both the Required and the Elective curricula. Beginning next fall, first-year students will take a yearlong Field Immersion... View Details

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

31 Jan 2025
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New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

organizations and advocates like the New York City Department of Small Business Services, nonprofits that support small businesses, and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program, a national effort to nurture small businesses.” As the program grows, Meurer says... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

who are examining a wide range of climate- and sustainability-related topics. Contributing to this body of knowledge will be the work generated by the BiGS Climate Fellows, who will collaborate with the BEI next year. Additionally, BiGS... View Details