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04 Aug 2015
News

Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

hosted “A Vision for the 21st Century” as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. Contemporaneo 8076 was View Details

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

In their new book, The Innovator's DNA, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen, and Clayton M. Christensen build on the idea of disruptive innovation to explain how and why the Steve... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

18 Sep 2014
News

Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground

consulting firm Shaldor, documents the specific strategies various companies pursued. As examples, by focusing on a neglected market segment, Netafim became the world leader in... View Details

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

organization defining its role and finding its niche and space in the world will find it easier to communicate and achieve that super stretch goal. They start with a blank piece of paper. They do not have to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Mar 2025
Blog Post

WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley

and the fast-moving world of tech. Beyond the individual insights, the experience as a whole resonated deeply with students. Ali Amin (MS/MBA... View Details

Keywords: Technology

2011
Working Paper

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States

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01 Dec 2020
News

HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years

GARRETT: The School has been such a powerful force in both our lives, and we wanted to honor that as well as support the School’s mission and excellence. JONES: We’re living at a time when View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause

long the centerpiece of the HCA's activities. The prestigious scholarship, founded by former HCA president and current World Bank president James... View Details

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

15 May 2020
Blog Post

Words from an HBS Partner: Reflections on the Partner Experience

different world - we all play a part in developing a beautifully diverse experience at HBS. As an artist, I was able to work with HBS student clubs and use my design skills for campus conferences. I brought that same talent to my Product... View Details

13 Dec 2022
News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

classmates, alumni, professors, and business leaders. It's the only place in the world where I could spend time with investors, former US senators, CEOs of global companies,... View Details

Blog

Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application

learning." Barnes accepted the invitation and did an amazing job. She's since become part of four more sessions, two online and two in person. In delivering lectures, Barnes has tried to channel HBS professors. "Seeing some of View Details

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HBS Engagement Across the Region - Global Activities 2020

coordination of regional participation in HBS’s Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, which brings together academics from around the world for an on-campus program that inspires innovative... View Details

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

business leaders could, through US-led innovation, bolster American manufacturing and create thousands of middle-class jobs. Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor and the founding chair of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

Twitter soared high on its first day of trading on Nov. 7, with its shares closing the day at $45 for a value of $25 billion. Even though TWTR has yet to make money, investors flocked to the stock in droves,... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

25 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

the Harvard Divinity School. She is a world expert on pilgrimages and the author of definitive books about the rivers of India. Prof. Rahul... View Details

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

03 Apr 2015
News

Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Vision for the 21st Century” events in Dallas and Houston as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. View Details

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

they probably didn't do a good job." Learning By Doing For decades, Harvard's case-study method has been the gold standard in business-school education, emulated around the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

papers, and invoices, as well as personal letters, diaries, and journals that cast light on the world of doing business in nineteenth-century China. Heard Family business papers Mss:766 1754-1898 800... View Details

28 Nov 2022
Blog Post

College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

include a career workshop, mock case sessions, and an alumni/current student panel! You’ll have the chance to interact with students from around the world to collectively... View Details

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