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01 Jun 2004
News

Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates

attendance at alumni conferences, and broader engagement in the alumni community. To expedite its work, the committee created three subcommittees with specific tasks. The Focus Group Subcommittee, chaired by Janet Clarke (AMP 111, 1992), View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Alumni Association Board of Directors; committee; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated View Details

01 Feb 1998
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A Joyful Noise

Boody organ builders. Peter Sykes, one of Boston's best-known organists and music director of the First Congregational Church in Cambridge, played pieces by Buxtehude, Bach, Brahms, and Sweelinck and performed an original piece by Edmund... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

call our focused portfolio) to many weeks (our longer, comprehensive general management portfolio), is growing significantly. Each year, these programs enable us to educate leaders who make the organizations they lead better. Our recent... View Details

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

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

the School’s Global Research Centers in helping faculty work on cases and find research opportunities. The LSP builds contacts, compiles databases, organizes seminars, and encourages and supports case writing across units to raise... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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5.2 Use of Harvard Name & Logo | MBA

not intended for sale, such as club or conference t-shirts. Specific information regarding student club marketing and merchandise is found on the MBA Clubs website (login required) . HBS students may not endorse donated products and... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

centered on developing more dynamic online resources, including an informative electronic newsletter and searchable, Web-based Class Notes embedded with e-mail hot links. Regarding delivery, the committee felt there should be more... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

June 2010 (Revised November 2011)
Case

Zensar: The Future of Vision Communities (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Rachna Tahilyani

Zensar is a rapidly growing, mid-sized Indian IT services company with a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies. One of its practices, Vision Communities, is an inclusive forum for innovation and strategy formulation. As the company grows,... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Cooperation; Information Technology Industry; India

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01 Mar 2012
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In Memoriam

Harvard Business Review article “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?” and then with his 1989 book, The Managerial Mystique, Zaleznik questioned a longstanding corporate paradigm. His assertion that managers are dedicated to maintaining order and efficiency— while... View Details

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

17 Dec 2018
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Tomorrow, Transformed

business leadership to accelerate social change COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE: What does environmental leadership look like in the age of global warming? CODE BREAKERS: Increasing the number of women in positions of leadership READY, SET, LAUNCH: Scaling entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: HBS Bulletin staff; illustration by Martín Léon Barretto

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

Press) People are drawn to, and influenced by, leaders who communicate authentically and connect easily with people—who "own the room." The authors believe anyone in an organization can develop a distinctive voice by doing two things... View Details

August 28, 2018
Article

How Intermittent Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence

By: Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore and David Lazer

People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces both benefits (higher average solution quality due to exploitation of existing answers through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a... View Details

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4.1 Student Travel | MBA

4.1 Student Travel Students are expected to review the Harvard University Graduate & Professional Student International Travel Policy for information on the Harvard-wide policy on student travel. The Harvard Global Support Services Office... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Reaching New Heights

First-year students in Section G raised nearly $12,000 toward the construction of a new primary school in Nepal after hearing a presentation from former Microsoft executive John Wood. After a trek in the Annapurna region, Wood quit his job and seven-figure stock option... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information; Information; Information

April 2010
Teaching Note

IBM: The Corporate Service Corps (TN)

By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason

Teaching Note for [409106]. View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Employees; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Global Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Ghana; Tanzania; Romania; Philippines; Viet Nam

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January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
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Ivy Academy: Blended Learning in Downingtown Area School District

By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg

In 2015, Downingtown Area School District (DASD), a suburban school district near Philadelphia, entered its second year implementing Ivy Academy, a blended learning program, in its two traditional high schools. Superintendent Larry Mussoline, having for several years... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Philadelphia

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March 2004
Teaching Note

ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth (TN)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Teaching Note to (9-503-007). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Globalized Markets and Industries; Nonprofit Organizations; Africa

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31 Oct 2018
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Preaching with a Choir

organizations in the world that has the ability to transcend cultural and generational boundaries through its performances. The music of the choir gives joy, peace, and healing to its listeners, and [there’s a] variety of ways that it... View Details

May 2000 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Sothebys.com

Sotheby's has taken 50% of its business by volume to the Internet. How do the economics change? How do logistics and customer support needs change? What leverage does the Internet provide this established bricks-and-mortar auction house? View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Internet and the Web; Auctions

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