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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
leadership. The writing team also added business executive Kent Lineback, whose executive experience included roles at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Harvard Business School Publishing before he... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
with investors? After Ballmer left, the relationship with Wall Street needed tending to. The shares had given up a third of their value during his tenure, even though sales almost quadrupled. Fritz Foley, who attended Harvard Business... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
lauded by some for defending the integrity of its products and the security of the owners of its products. All of this makes for a classic Harvard Business School case problem. We should be well prepared to discuss it. And now the story... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
service as a director and lead director on multiple nonprofit and corporate boards. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, Associate Editor Julia Hanna talks to Barron about board service,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
information (street, telephone number, etc.), and batches of filled-in forms were sent to the keypunching center in the basement of Baker Library. Piles of keypunched cards (each somewhat smaller than a size 10 envelope) containing the new data were regularly taken... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
ultimately interviewing hundreds of parents in the corporate sector, as well as in medicine, the military, nonprofits, education, performing arts, academia, and in frontline service jobs. In 2016, Dowling used her findings to launch... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
strategy beyond markets. Very few studies have shown that a firm’s strategy increases policy performance; almost none have demonstrated a link between policy and firm profitability. Third, the topical areas of analysis appear to be limited. Environmental issues and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
much effort, with excellent results, into assembling the CRC steering committee. The thirty members of the committee, all but three of whom are HBS alumni, are a high-powered group comprising leaders from the venture capital and academic communities, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Alex Roth
thinking I'd learn models and techniques — like a cash-flow analysis. I didn't realize I'd get a structure for thinking about the moral dilemmas in business and leadership. I just finished the Leadership and Corporate Accountability... View Details
- Fast Answer
IFC: LA/Hollywood
fundamentals, press releases, transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles, and investment bank analyst research. See our Fast Answer "How do I find... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
larger forces that, taken together, have helped fashion business and society today. Overarching themes of her book tackle the corporation writ large, the changing nature of work, and defining moments in technology. What can business... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
Walter J. Salmon Photo: Harvard Business School When he died in March at the age of 84, Walter J. Salmon left behind a legacy that included seven books, several hundred case studies, and thousands of former students taught over the course... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
he's the exception. The man-of-action hero myth provides tremendous inspiration for the American economy, and also shapes how we do business. At Harvard Business School, we love to teach cases of renegades who pull the rug from underneath... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Harvard Business School's mission to bring cutting-edge business practice to the classroom." According to Dwight B. Crane, senior associate dean, director of Faculty Development, a number of factors are exerting new pressures on the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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Entrepreneurs Promise Signers - Alumni
Giving Entrepreneurs Promise Signers Giving Entrepreneurs Promise Signers Entrepreneurs Promise Signers The Entrepreneurs Promise is a special community of HBS entrepreneurs—founders, builders, and investors—who have made a commitment to be philanthropic to View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first clients was launching a drug... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie Calder-Wang. This disparity in representation... View Details