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- 01 Dec 2008
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Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
and create a community among individuals who are studying this phenomenon. Too often, leadership is not considered a legitimate subject of study in business schools, despite the fact that we face a pressing need for developing more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
collaborated with doctors and college students to produce information on sexual and mental health topics that was both accurate and interesting to young women. But as the Confi team talked with students about subjects such as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
subjects came to him naturally. He followed Fisher’s advice, enrolled in appropriate classes, scored well, reapplied, and was admitted. Becoming a Better Leader HBS, says Ferrara, was a growth experience, both academically and personally.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
partners, industry leaders, and guest speakers — to discuss and analyze two case studies. One subject for the February 2003 weekend will likely be the Irish economy. After five years of growth, Barry says, the nation is facing deficits... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
need and should not be subject to the vagaries of profit-driven management or the potential manipulation of markets. But it is these same market forces that could well drive crucial changes in water use. In theory, when water becomes... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
(MBA 1972) has parlayed a lifelong interest in the field of organizational behavior into two careers. Encouraged by HBS professors Jay Lorsch and Paul Lawrence, Nadler pursued a PhD in the subject at the University of Michigan and taught... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
investment of the right kind, in the right way, it would produce outstanding results, favorable publicity, and competitive advantage.” America is involved in several projects, including studying the progress of African-American managers and executives since the 1970s,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Regardless of subjective assessments by popular writers and literary intellectuals, statistics show that the average worker, under “an avalanche of consumers’ goods,” has a better material existence than ever before. In other words, “the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
learn about marketing from a business owner who says he doesn’t care whether or not customers like his product? HBS assistant professor Michael Norton’s interest in what motivates seemingly irrational consumer behavior has found a perfect View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Drawing on his extensive research on a subject he calls his "passion" - customer loyalty - Sasser led a lively discussion on the topic of customer retention that included a videotaped segment on... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
the worlds of technology and e-commerce gathered for the daylong "CEO Millennium Forum," an event jointly sponsored by HBS, Microsoft, Forrester Research, and the Wall Street Journal. The forum was also the subject of an hourlong... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
who might prefer guaranteed tax-free retirement income not subject to Wall Street market fluctuations. The Tanner Extraction by Frank X. Biasi (PMD 41, 1981) F.X. Biasi Falling in Love Backwards: An Unlikely Tale of Happily Ever After by... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
important role model in Rosabeth Moss Kanter, her professor for an organizational behavior elective. "The subject matter was fascinating, and I really admired her as a high-ranking tenured faculty member who was also a woman," she says.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Berolzheimer. “He was tough on students who didn’t use their imagination, and for that reason I didn’t like him at first. It was only later that I came to appreciate that it wasn’t personal.” Levitt’s habit of throwing chalk at the blackboard, he says, was a symbol for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
business policy and the role of the middle manager. He also examined the domestic and international economy, particularly the interaction between business and government, as well as the subjects of productivity, corporate profits, and... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
In 2000, Fisher founded ViaCell, a cellular medicines company that became the parent of ViaCord and the subject of an HBS case study. She took ViaCell public in 2005 and sold it to Perkin Elmer in 2007 for $300 million. Water and Beer Her... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
propose creating a government-owned corporation that would guarantee new well-underwritten mortgages when private markets fail. We agree that private markets, for the most part, can provide mortgages without government guarantees. But private markets are View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
hundreds of millions of dollars, the ALS grant to Cytokinetics is significant because it facilitates the collection of plasma samples from test subjects over an extended period of time. The samples will be shared with academic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg