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- 01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family
involved, only about one-third of family enterprises survive in the same family's hands from the first to the second generation, he notes. For the second year in a row, Davis is teaching a new MBA elective, Management of the Family...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
program With the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, a massive humanitarian crisis threatens millions of lives. Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, discussed with Elana Gordon of The World the greatest...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
LEVITT The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time — not a minute more or less — a slight...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Each year hundreds of hardworking HBS students volunteer their time to arrange on-campus conferences that attract a wide variety of top-notch speakers, expert panelists, and enthusiastic audience participants. Working through student clubs, View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
second-year MBA course Reimagining Capitalism in 2012, Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, has been helping students explore the roles that the corporation and its leaders can play in addressing these...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
getting an MBA because he says he wants "a seat at the table." "Since our launch in 2008, we've had 110 students take the class," Schultz notes. "Except for one who's in an elite military unit, all have gone on to college, including 30 or...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck
exam at a testing center to receive the HBX CORe certificate. HBX Courses A second piece of HBX will comprise specialized courses, with an initial lineup of faculty members and courses that includes Clay Christensen's Disruptive Strategy, View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
skill transfer—the two charges that the new skills economy has laid out for any educational enterprise. Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game By Andrew Binns, Charles A. O’Reilly III, and Michael L....
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- 23 Oct 2019
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Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
adopted AI in some capacity. At HBS, faculty research and teaching reflect the growing importance of training leaders who can both leverage AI’s possibilities and avoid its pitfalls. Recently, Jan Rivkin, faculty head of the MBA Program...
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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
Anne Beitel, MBA 1993. I was not prepared for a case and the professor did a little kind of opening set of statements about it and then she turned to me and said, “And in a few minutes, Anne, I’d like you to get us started,” and I said,...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started the boom in retailing, while...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after graduation. READ MORE Gordon M....
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
necessary for effective management practice. A business case in each chapter illustrates key concepts and helps students place the material in the context of real-world practice. Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective edited by Rebecca Henderson,...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Christensen and Vernon Remembered
formally retired in 1990, he continued to write, teach, and offer seminars on case-method teaching until the last months of his life. Thousands of his students, including HBS professor Michael E. Porter, have never forgotten the impact he...
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- 15 Feb 2022
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Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
MBA student. “On my first day, in the first-year marketing class, we had a complicated 70-page case on a silverware company, and we couldn’t make heads or tails of it,” he said. In class the next day, McFarlan watched the professor cold...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
people often don’t have the financial wherewithal and broad general skills to leave behind a job where they are intimidated. Working in fear is a terrible way to live, and a secret ballot can ameliorate much of that fear. Michael A....
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
Brightest Young Business Leaders by John Coleman (MPA/MBA ’10), Daniel Gulati (MBA ’11), and W. Oliver Segovia (MBA ’10) (Harvard Business Review Press) Recent Harvard MBAs share personal stories about assuming the mantle of leadership in...
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