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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Blackley (MBA 2007), Frank Williams (MBA 1995), and Harvard alumnus Tom Peterson with the backing of the UPMC Health Plan and The Advisory Board, a global research, technology, and consulting firm founded by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons explains how managers can identify holes in their planning... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
William H. Draper III (MBA 1954), one of America’s first venture capitalists, financed hundreds of high-technology companies. He also was chosen by President Reagan to be president and chairman of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
A new Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), directed by Michael E. Porter, opened at HBS in July. The interdisciplinary ISC is dedicated to enlarging and disseminating the body of research on competition and strategy pioneered... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Williams, a home furnishing manufacturer; Karen Kaplan, CEO of ad agency Hill Holliday; and Felix Rappaport, CEO of Foxwoods Resort Casino. The event opened with a cocktail reception in the Spangler Center’s Williams Room, followed View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Experimentation Matters by Stefan H. Thomke Becoming a Manager (second edition) by Linda A. Hill What Really Works by William Joyce, Nitin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“It is not at all clear that when firms expand abroad they contract at home. If anything, you see the opposite.” — HBS professor MIHIR DESAI noting that foreign profits made by American firms put them in a better position to grow at home.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) American businesses can’t afford to ignore the reality: The nature of work is changing. If companies hope to hire and hold on to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
on the board to illustrate human interactions. Hunt Greene's high bet wasn't looking too promising until Lawrence, bewildered by Hunt's off-the-wall comments, offered him the chalk to illustrate his theory. Much to the amusement of the... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted it would fail. Former chairman... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
often blindsided by their classmates’ differing interpretation of characters or situations. In other words, your Antigone may not be my Antigone. “The most important thing that leaders need to know how to do is understand individual... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
it also aims at Amherst College, Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Smith College, Tufts University, Wellesley College, and Williams College. Across the country, 67 other colleges and universities... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
though, and you’ll find that Hamilton has been renewed by a marriage of technology and environmental sustainability. “Basically, the only thing we kept was the building’s exterior shell,” says Jason Carlson, project manager for contractor... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
to the program’s success, including learning how to think outside the box to solve complex problems, as well as developing strategies for marrying the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. He cites Professor William Sahlman's principles... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Oakland to inquire about franchise opportunities. Founded during the Depression by William Dreyer and Joseph Edy, Dreyer’s had established a Bay Area reputation for premium quality and inventiveness, dating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
Georgia. In their travels, they discovered numerous abandoned churches—and many small but thriving congregations. The duo photographed and documented their histories, first on a popular website and now in a coffee-table book, Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, with a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
VC Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Today's World
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
Inspired by HBS’s distinctive pedagogy, it would be unlike anything else offered online. In addition to launching its first program, CORe (Credential of Readiness)—which teaches the fundamentals of business—HBS Online has created... View Details