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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
the knowledge and skills gained from their on-campus MBA coursework first-hand. A cornerstone of these courses is the expertise of faculty, who develop course content focused on teaching objectives achieved primarily through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
to me in our first meeting. “There are skills, attitudes, and a fundamental base of knowledge that education and experience can provide,” he said. “You won’t turn me into a world-class athlete by sending me out to practice with a coach,... View Details
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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
Health Services clinicians may have special knowledge of the University context to which students will be returning. In all such cases, the decision whether to allow a student to return is made by the View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
good, but your question was: What do leaders in firms do? And so this is, this is part of the big reason that I wrote the book. Anybody who's in a leadership position now, or even aspires to be in a leadership position within their company can leverage the View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
handwritten checks. They had burned it all down. And now they needed someone to help them rebuild it. In hindsight, Rothrock says, the answer to Sony’s break-in was to isolate and treat the affected area, not tear it all down. But he gets it—executives and View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly managed firms in the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2
since the human genome sequence was completed-has changed the way we think about, study, and approach the development of novel therapies. However, these advances in knowledge have so far not been reflected in substantial medical progress... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
Editor's note. Organizations are living, growing, learning things, but this depth of experience and knowledge can be difficult to tap into. The secret, according to the authors of Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
accreditation. Also, the use of the LEED standard increased among private builders in the same local markets. "Our paper describes several different ways in which these policies might stimulate private markets for greener building," says Toffel, an associate professor... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Everest. Vescovo had reached that summit on his second try in 2010. The battered ice axe he had relied on during the climb was now secured within the the submersible’s body. It reminded him of the intense physical strain of those days on the mountain, the punishing... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
excitement generated by the public source case made Koehn's team even more committed to filling in the gaps with personal feedback from Harpo management and, ideally, from Winfrey herself. Finally, events began to move very fast. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
The flight deck had taken a beating from takeoffs and landings and needed to be resurfaced. Being a supply officer is like managing a small city. At the Naval Academy I was intrigued by the glamour of being a pilot or a ship driver, but... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
British Parliament replaced common land with private property--a process that prompted better management and made Great Britain the leader in the Industrial Revolution. I then began to think about the relationship over time between new... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
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 single, simple portal and an... View Details
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
mission, highest standards, and values of the School. Alumni Achievement Awards Press Release Peter O. Crisp, MBA 1960 Co-Founder & Former Managing Partner, Venrock Associates John B. Hess, MBA 1977 CEO, Hess Corporation Desiree Rogers,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to share her latest thinking. Her new book, Clearing the Hurdles, co-written with Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia G. Greene, will be out in May 2004 from... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
and planned to get her money's worth." Keep those cards and letters coming! February 1, 1928 Theodore Sander, Jr., has resigned his position with Goldman, Sachs & Company and has been appointed assistant sales manager of the Royal Baking... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry