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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
were the reinforcements needed to staff the new organization and make it fully functional and credible as the collective voice of black students at HBS. We were the first student group at HBS formed on some basis other than professional... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
functioning — or not functioning — outside one’s country. Those differences spark insights. Every organization has its own particular needs and patient population, emphasizes Richard Bohmer. As a result, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
enterprise one day. I might start an NGO. I might start a nonprofit. I might start a company that’s focused on increasing social welfare.” That’s not by accident—it is in part a function of the creativity and the work of the SEI founders,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Books Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills that participants and their organizations demand, and those provided by their executive programs. This work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
will continue to be very tricky because revenues will be lower with fewer people dining out and restaurants operating at less than full capacity. There will be fewer restaurant employees. Compensation as a function of what restaurants... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
order, which shall include the organic and personal, and eventually embrace all the offices and functions of man,” wrote Mumford. “Only if we can project that image shall we be able to find a new form for the city.” View Details
- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
and principal owner of the Westmoreland Glass Company, a maker of functional and decorative glassware. Wilson still remembers the day when, as a four-year-old, he was taken by his grandfather to visit the factory. "I can still recall the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
nor is it the question around which many IT vendors design and sell their products. Instead, functionality continues to be king." IT decisions, however, should not be based on functionality, says McAfee, who takes an example from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
HBS in 1984. "My biggest priority has always been to ensure that my career and family life function harmoniously together," says Middlebrooks, who is now a controller for Chrysler's MOPAR Parts Division. "I love what I do at Chrysler and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
can't talk about Internet advertising anymore as one medium. It's not. We need to think of the different formats as serving different functions in marketing." Thus, John Deighton's total marketing environment provides a very... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, and a public school, Pine Mountain transitioned in the 1970s to a center for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Latin America and Europe in future years. The main function of the offices will be to facilitate and expand the faculty's research and course development efforts in distant locations. "At the present time, about 25 percent of HBS cases... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage test results and other clinical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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The New Global Business Manager
There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers, business managers, and View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
find that the boss isn't interested in their suggestions? These are very real questions for anyone making the transition from functional to general manager. Last October, in Professor David A. Garvin's elective course General Management:... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
tackle any process in any organization.” The article frames Malcolm Beck’s professional journey not as an accumulation of diverse skills, but as a focus on a few unique ones. [S]he didn’t become chief executive by getting loads of experience across functions. Rather,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New 1908 Society Embraces Senior Alumni
6f3368a93fbb4dc44496be5e9cf733e6 For the School’s most senior graduates, the new 1908 Society is a wish come true. In focus groups, they voiced a clear desire for more opportunities to get together. The 1908 Society’s chief function is to... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
Bucket Challenge to support the Phase 3 trial of a promising investigational drug that is designed to slow the loss of lung function and muscle strength in patients with ALS. “Clinical trials cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars,”... View Details