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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
in Latin America. The two-day event featured a case discussion (on Embraer, the Brazilian commercial aircraft manufacturer), presentations and analysis of new research, and discussions on the complexities of case writing throughout the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
me is the ability to communicate in a compact, compelling, and concise way. When you’re in a class with super-smart MBAs, and you have maybe 45 seconds to air your point of view, that’s a unique exercise in concentrated analysis and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
who may have private relationships with intelligence officials.” The President’s executive order also set in motion the creation of specific information sharing and analysis organizations, which would allow for anonymous distribution of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Kim B. Clark talked about the School's efforts in areas such as entrepreneurial studies, information technology, and the recruiting of more women students to the MBA Program. Day three's sessions offered a mix of business analysis and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
and other firms that employed what became known as the SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) in addressing the challenges of client organizations. In 1987, the Academy of Management recognized Christensen’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing differently." His in-depth financial... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
embracing diversity as an asset. The immediate priorities—partisan gerrymandering, voter participation, and campaign finances—took shape out of Leadership Now’s own data analysis and build on research from across Harvard, such as HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
William Lawrence University Professor. "This is a tremendously exciting undertaking," declared HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. "Under Michael Porter's leadership, the ISC will quickly become a highly valuable and visible source of important ideas, information, and View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
effective business life," they write in the book's preface. "In most cases, it is not." In their analysis of this separation between spirituality and work, Nash, a senior research fellow at HBS, and McLennan, a Unitarian Universalist... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
consult its resources monthly, and its aggregate data has spurred policymakers to consider disparities in the government’s procedures. In an analysis undertaken before the pandemic, Boundless found that the average processing time for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
changes in the law that may have made filing easier. The authors base their assertions on an analysis of historical data involving bankruptcies and consumer credit. "When consumer credit expanded dramatically in the 1920s," notes Moss in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
patterns of corporate governance and finance between the early 20th century and the 1990s. To attract investors, the statutes of companies organized before 1910 often included stronger protections for small shareholders than what the law mandated. View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
analysis at HBS. Since then, I have been a big advocate of this objective method of examining the potential benefits and costs of any decision." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Seize the opportunity to live, work, or travel in Asia; that's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
do and what not to do) so that the analytics actually makes a difference. Books on customer analytics exist mainly in two categories: academic texts, which discuss theoretical approaches to data analysis problems, and technical texts,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
or competitive strategic analysis could measure. I learned that, as with so many things in Africa, the context was everything. It is hard to put a number on the “value” of reconciliation, but it is here where measures like social return... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
Keith Butters in first-year finance, Charlie Williams on banking, and Ray Goldberg around the “invention” of agribusiness. “But the single most useful course was Written Analysis of Cases (WAC) because it combined the need for crisp,... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
maid in Olympia, and I used a lot of formal and social analysis to suggest that the name of that painting, which is Portrait d’une négresse, négresse bring the French word for black woman, a term that is a racialized, generic, and in many... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
and style and meeting deadlines, six days a week, three cases a day. By 6 p.m. on Saturday, your Written Analysis of Cases paper had to go down the chute [at Baker Library]. If it was 6:01, that chute just discarded your work. I needed an... View Details