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- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
(Lafite): Plus ça change Goldberg, Ray A., Arthur I Segel, Elie Ofek, and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 913-402 For centuries Lafite has been the most admired wine Estate in the world. How does Baron Eric de Rothschild... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
editor’s remarks in “The MBA at a Crossroads,” as well as the comments regarding the book Rethinking the MBA. My use of and admiration for the MBA I received decades ago remains, and I would not change it one bit. I see business being... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its focus on strategic priorities.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
transformation, so whether that’s a turnaround, or scaling, or a growth phase. It’s dynamic and usually that’s where you have the opportunity to have those exponential career expansions.” “Also, make sure you're surrounding yourself with people you View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
Ironically, we talk about the knowledge economy that taps every brain within the organization, yet this unbalanced compensation structure is absolutely antithetical to that theory. Q: Which companies do you admire for their outstanding... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
ship-from-store (SFS), to increase their store productivity and expand their integrated presence across multiple retail channels (i.e. brick-and-mortar store, web, and mobile; also known as omnichannel retailing). The Scale Of The Threat Nonetheless, we hold that these... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
countries. At the same time that the region was enjoying the spoils of admirably executed cluster initiatives, it was being threatened by the destabilizing violence of the Basque separatist extreme, a slowing global economy, and an always... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
research on admired companies from four continents, followed in over 20 countries, to derive six propositions about the role of humanistic institutional logic. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-119.pdf Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
“I was 95 percent sure I wanted to be a general manager. But after I got to HBS I recognized that you can stay in the field you love and be an academic at the same time,” says Gartenberg, adding that HBS professor Tarun Khanna made a “huge” impact. “I View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
for which they lack formal training, and facing painful uncertainty about what happens next, deserve our admiration and gratitude. But that is not enough. At some point (and none of us know exactly when), exhaustion will overwhelm duty.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
behavior shaped modern American business? A: American business history is chock full of man-of-action hero stories: Edison, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Ray Kroc, on and on. But the man-of-action hero receded in the postwar era through the seventies, when we particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- Web
Commencement 2016 Address | About
to summon help, leading rescuers back to his crew—all of whom, remarkably, survived. As I re-read his story on our trip to Antarctica, my admiration for Shackleton kept increasing. Even in a large modern ship, the seas were rough. How he... View Details
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
leaders experience can sometimes cause even good people — people who were once admired for their character — to go astray. The best insight I have gained into character is a quote from Abraham Lincoln I came across when I was teaching in... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
learning, the joy of education, the joy of pursuing ideas, of admiring beauty but also accepting the challenge of difficult ideas as presented over the ages by artists. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
sexism, risk-avoidance, obsession with social image, and lack of emotional vulnerability. I struggled to reconcile this with my broad admiration for the hard.working, polite, and virtuous Japanese culture popularly known in Brazil. Vocal... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
friendships you forged. As I reflect on this past year, I will remember you for the undiminished passion and exceptional creativity you brought to your HBS experience, as well as your humor, kindness, and generosity of spirit. And my colleagues and I will always View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
I’ve witnessed the lives led by our graduates. Many of our alumni currently lead some of the most admired and most valuable companies on the planet. They have been crucial to the creation and evolution of entire industries, including... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
against type: a double major in math and economics at Yale, a stint at McKinsey, and a joint degree in business and law from Harvard—all admirable accomplishments, but none a prerequisite for screenwriting. Singer acted and sang his way... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
chairman of the board. Politically, Tisch is a cofounder of No Labels, a nonpartisan group dedicated to restoring fiscal integrity in the US government. A member of the School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors, Tisch says his admiration for his... View Details