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25 Mar 2022
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Know Thyself--and Your Employees

Keywords: career management; employee management

09 Apr 2025
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exacerbated by the workplace flexibility of the COVID era has put increasing demands on businesses to offer or expand benefits that support family schedules. In this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White talks to Stephen Kramer (MBA... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Salter New Head of External Relations

J. Hill Professor of Business Administration. Salter (MBA ’64, DBA ’68), who assumed his new position July 1, joined the faculty in 1967 and has taught and helped develop a wide variety of courses in the areas of corporate strategy,... View Details

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

01 Oct 2001
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Books: Winning the Influence Game

"Managers who ignore the actions of government do so at great risk," warn the authors of Winning the Influence Game: What Every Business Leader Should Know about Government. HBS associate professor Michael Watkins, former congressman and... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2009
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Inciting Wonder

ROGERS: State dinners and Easter eggs. Stephen J. Serio/Crain’s Chicago Business As the social secretary for the new administration in Washington, Desirée Rogers (MBA ’85) will have a discreet hand in shaping the personal image that the... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

24 Apr 2014
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Empowering Japan through e-commerce

he developed a web-based shopping mall—Rakuten, which roughly means “optimism”—often called the Amazon.com of Japan. “We created an online marketplace where customers can interact with shop owners, and we empower our merchants to build View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Wan Heads HBSP

Wan Photo courtesy HBSP “I want Harvard Business School Publishing to succeed as the most authoritative publishing company focused on improving the practice of management and leadership,” says David A. Wan (MBA '81), who took the reins of... View Details

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global decorative-ceiling View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers

They became skilled at watching the bottom line, managing scarce resources, and forming relationships with government and business organizations outside the company. At Abbott, young MBAs most often were... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Apr 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief

the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series: Harvard Business Review on Customer Relationship Management. This collection of cutting-edge articles will help organizations... View Details

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

01 Jun 2001
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Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni

sustain the club’s newly expanded leadership structure. Of the forty volunteers currently working in officer positions or on one of several committees, ten graduated from Harvard Business School last year. To Kwiker, this proves that the... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg

01 Mar 2025
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Forward Thinking

private companies that have drastically lowered launch costs while pioneering new technologies. This infusion of competition and innovation has led to an increasingly symbiotic relationship between the government and the commercial space... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle

many future entrepreneurs - accidental or otherwise - in his faculty role as the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration. After graduating as a Baker Scholar, Brierley entered the DBA Program and worked as a research... View Details

Keywords: Charles M. Williams; Epsilon Data Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar

has to create a branded experience that goes beyond the purely transactional—one that aims to build a relationship with the customer and communicate the brand in an experiential way. There’s still a purpose for physical shopping in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

26 Mar 2020
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Oprah Winfrey and the Power of Empathy

01 Aug 2014
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Participation Guys

to play the 100 percent game,” says Sternfield. “Section C has always been a close section,” he continues. “With close relationships forged from our incredibly intense first year of business school as our... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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New Releases

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market

late 2010. He was satisfied with the quality of his care until, hovering above the spittoon, he spotted black fungal algae encircling the drain. Something about the entire business struck Singh, an entrepreneur with experience in... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

10 Aug 2015
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Support for the Healers

health,” says Sandford, who joined Point of Care in 2014. “Their burn-out rates are high and getting higher.” Recent breakthroughs in life-saving medical interventions mean that “more patients are living longer with chronic conditions,” Sandford notes. “The quality of... View Details

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