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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Manjari supports co-chairs William R. Kerr and Joseph B. Fuller on all project priorities. Her research efforts focus on location choices by global companies, the role of business in making cities and regions more competitive, shared... View Details

03 Oct 2005
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The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

older ports witnessed the financial resurgence of port cities that had adopted containerization. His business got an additional boost when the Port of Oakland, California, invested $600,000 to build a new container-ship facility in the... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Recession – led the city to record job growth. After leaving City Hall, he resumed leadership of Bloomberg L.P. and expanded his philanthropic work through Bloomberg... View Details

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Senior leadership is crucial here. We discuss the importance of leading in a consistently inconsistent fashion. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025) - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Interested In Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business Essentials Finance & Accounting Business in Society Marketing 90% are more self-assured at work, 10x return on investment, 87% acquired new skills that were... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

- Holy Child Summit, NJ MA William Joiner Newton North High School Newtonville, MA FL Jennifer Jolley Palm Bay Magnet High School Melbourne, FL PA Pearl Jonas Science Leadership Academy At Center City... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

building “the world’s greenest battery” to fight climate change was a difficult—and perhaps unrealistic—goal. How much could Northvolt really contribute to the European effort against society’s greatest challenge? Leadership and Climate... View Details

22 Feb 2023
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Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

Rock, a Twin Cities based nonprofit focused on empowering young people through music education. Teresa Danso-Danquah (MBA 2024) - VP of Admissions and Administration I am a disability advocate, HR professional, and aspiring VC investor... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

(board member), the ELCA Fund for Leaders in Mission (leadership council), the Dartmouth College President's Leadership Council, and the Wake Forest Parents' Council, and is a guest lecturer at various business schools. He and his wife... View Details

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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online

impactful than other online programs (From a 2023 survey of participants across all HBS Online programs, conducted by City Square Associates). Better overall experience (From a 2023 survey of prospective learners, conducted by View Details

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Brandon Graves

fashion from an early age. I was her first “intern” and was fascinated to see how CADs on line sheets transformed into garments hanging on the racks of contemporary sales floors in NYC department stores. What is the best thing about your home town? I was born and... View Details

November 2007 (Revised March 2011)
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Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Irina Tarsis

In 2007, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, the CEO of Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), had every reason to be optimistic about the future of his home, Abu Dhabi, one of the emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The tiny, sandy, and dry emirate with a... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Economy; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalization; Leading Change; State Ownership; Diversification; Abu Dhabi

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social responsibility activities.... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

also theirs. To Rawi Abdelal, an HBS professor of international management who serves as faculty co-chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Dlodlo’s community-focused approach to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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Events - Business History

management and business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Dec 15 15 Dec 2023 Conference Using Oral History in Research This conference considered the ways oral history including the interviews undertaken by... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

the possibility of change. My current research examines solutions for cities and regions, including their surrounding vulnerable treasures—for example, an almost-finished case on the efforts of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians to save the... View Details

10 Jan 2023
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Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

fold it into a paper airplane and toss it from a city window or into the sea. Instead of writing, you could also use natural objects to represent things (e.g., an acorn to represent your tough outer shell or a dried leaf to represent... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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