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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
the ground up, Jenrette's restorations have met the highest standards. "Most of the people associated with my projects have been working for me for twenty years or more," he notes. "They're in their businesses because they love to work... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs (2012). Has your own definition of career success evolved over the years? Cynthia Montgomery Throughout my adult life—and the early years of raising children—I've believed that with careful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold. Friedman, who is coeditor of the... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
of us to navigate the coronavirus crisis by conveying to employees, colleagues, friends, and family that “I’m here for you.” About the Authors Howard Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Professor Emeritus of Harvard View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
School gave me the ability to have a broad overview that focused not only on the financial dimension of a business but on its many other facets, including management, strategy, manufacturing, and marketing. I began to rely increasingly on... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
listen to podcasts detailing their impact, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE For more than 50 years, Harvard Business School has recognized a number of outstanding individuals by conferring on them its... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
Cases & Course MaterialsAcelero Learning: Building a Culture of Performance Harvard Business School Case 307-048 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307048 Cintas y... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
you've got to believe that some good always accompanies the bad and vice-versa. For at least a period of several months, September 11 has united Americans and others against a common enemy, brought families together, and encouraged many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
marketed its products as family food, targeting its messages to children as well as adults. Expanding slowly also gave Pujals the chance to work out and test his business model. He was able to determine... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
Books; bookstore and publishing house founder I fell in love with reading when I read Charlotte’s Web as a little girl and it made me cry. I realized then that books can really make you feel. But it can be hard to make time for books in a View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
business and society. Two new ventures led by HBS alumni are leveraging the power of philanthropy in the fight against racism. By retooling traditional philanthropic models in distinctive ways, the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and... View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
has had a storied business career. In the 1980s, she became the first female partner at Booz, Allen and helped build the consulting firm’s pharmaceutical practice. In the early 1990s, she was a deputy commissioner at the Food & Drug... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
by his example. He grew up in a very small village in India and was one of the first people in his family to attend college, where he studied engineering. He then went to England to get a diploma in management from Manchester View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
eliminate wasted fabrics. “I want to eliminate waste from the past and waste from the future by creating new clothing designs from leftover bolts of fabric that would otherwise be thrown away.” – Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Shelly Xu is a 31-year old whirlwind. While studying... View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
focus on employees and more on business and profitability." Phil Clark posited that knowledge work that deals with intangible results and hard-to-pinpoint accomplishments "just isn't as satisfying" as work used to be. John... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
actually enable the kind of economic growth that we generally measure and read about. It's reasonably obvious, for example, that growth in such things as the rule of law, so-called transparency, and ethical behavior foster trust in View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
for.” That helps explain how it was that Rice managed to graduate with honors from Yale with a degree in Latin American studies, but without employment. He did eventually land a job after college, spending two years at AT&T in a management-development program before... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
resumes than candidates who reveal their race—and this discriminatory practice is just as strong for businesses that claim to value diversity as those that don’t. These research findings should provide a startling wakeup call for View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
remote interactions in order to counter the unconscious bias which can put candidates at a disadvantage. The following recommendations for creating inclusive events are based on research from Harvard Business School faculty. They are... View Details
Keywords: All Industries