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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Compare this with the American saying “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” and it’s clear that different cultures teach different values, which often translate into distinct ways of doing business. In today’s global business world, View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
business or investing in emerging markets. New half-courses The Art of Marketing Science is intended for students interested in gaining a deeper understanding of consumer behavior and, most importantly, gaining expertise in changing... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
viable.” —President George W. Bush (MBA 1975) in December 2008, on diverting $17.4 billion in government funds to bail out GM and Chrysler “I went to business school because I thought it was important that unions understand how companies... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
America, Lodge realized that ideology could be used as a multidisciplinary analytical tool for comparing countries and understanding change within a particular nation. The concept was pivotal in his award-winning 1975 book, The New... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Years That Created America: The Story of the Explorers, Promoters, Investors, and Settlers Who Founded America by Ted Lamont (MBA 1951) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Fault Lines: A Layman’s Guide to Understanding America’s Role in the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1800s, where we saw the roots of the venture capital industry. Then, of course, we found ourselves in Silicon Valley, where so many of the brands that shape our daily life got their start in humble garages. Silicon Valley has been the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
government or semigovernment agencies? Collecting and analyzing these data may be useful in the classroom and in understanding the impact that the School has had in this crisis. Peter Jensen (MBA ’79) Morgan Hill, CA Financial Crisis... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
GATHERING: Dean Bob Bruner (MBA ’74, DBA ’82) of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business was one of eight deans at the March colloquium on the future of the MBA. All photos by Neal Hamberg Such pessimism seems more than a little counterintuitive. In a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
in organizations. Can you offer an example? Sony's role in Japan's path to global conquest is probably the best example. In the wake of the devastation following World War II, Sony acquired from Bell Laboratories one of the first licenses... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
author emphasizes the contribution of his own mentor, Malcom McLean, the inventor of container shipping, and the links between American thought leadership and the extraordinarily efficient industry that subsequently unfolded. In addition to highlighting the industry’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
of making it more accessible to alumni as their needs change throughout their lives. This committee is also working with the Non-U.S.-Based Alumni Connectedness Committee to better understand the needs and expectations of this important... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
Rohit Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, often asks his students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable? And next: Should everything be brandable? In “Branding Yoga,” cowritten with HBS Global Research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
study as an undergraduate, and the intellectual and quantitative rigor of a candidate’s work experience. Leadership potential is assessed by looking at each candidate’s leadership experiences and accomplishments, as well as through recommendations. View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
of motives and identification with groups, norms, and culture. In economics we talked about the role leadership plays in coordination and how economic models can help us understand that. History points us to the role of the biographer and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
crowdsourcing, correct? Yes, you can post any sort of task—whether it's editing a document, providing website copy, or verifying directory entries—and people with the abilities and time available will bid on it. Companies like Elance and oDesk make it possible to find... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Leveraging the power of yes
Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) is chief innovation officer at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from poverty. “One of the things I’ve learned is how expressive and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value, students adopt different roles in a family business drama... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna