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21 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
News

Lisa Frankenberg

she had serendipitously met when he was visiting Prague. With Luther's financial support, the Prague Post, a weekly publication emphasizing local and regional business news, went on the newsstands in October... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso; photograph by Webb Chappell

01 Oct 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

HBS. Opportunities for engaging in professional "redipping" currently include reunions, global conferences, and club-sponsored lectures and programs. To expand upon these offerings, the committee will look... View Details

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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India - Industry specific research

manufacturers. Automotive Advisory Service Ernst & Young's India... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the... View Details

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Deborah A. Farrington

followed an atypical path to success in the male-dominated world of finance and venture capital. She co-founded StarVest in 1998, which was built upon investments in technology-enabled business services on... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Groundwork

River,” O’Brien explains, “Baker Lawn was the central green. By the 1950s, the campus had a southern edge bordered by Morgan, Baker Library, Aldrich, the Dean’s House, and Kresge—all still following the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Educational Services

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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

advertising. Although the collection's date range covers 130 years, several hundred catalogs date from the 1920s-1930s. A wide range of products and services available to the trades are represented during... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

intellectual capital and strengthened its relationships worldwide with important constituencies, including alumni, academics, and emerging and established companies. The School... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

Bulletin), perhaps it is time to proclaim the success of Dean Wallace B. Donham's "experiment" in keeping alumni in contact with each other and with HBS. Donham would have been pleased to know that the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2008
News

The Making of a School

Library, among other nearby landmarks, won the architectural competition with its overall design of Georgian-style structures. Charles Killam, a professor of architecture at Harvard, noted that the “compact,... View Details

Keywords: George Bates MBA '25; Dean Wallace Donham; George F. Baker; Bishop William Lawrence; Lawrence Lowell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

informativeness and credibility, we also document that the information content of management earnings forecasts, as measured by the strength of share price responses to forecast news, increased in 1993-1996... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2003
News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

and great-grandmothers in the African-American community have always taught young people to help others in need. That's the sort of wisdom that anyone would do well to follow." Lillian Lincoln Lambert, the... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

he too emphasizes that making facilitating payments for essential documents and services is a routine fact of life in many countries, so much so that facilitating payments are not barred by the 1977 U.S.... View Details

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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library

1980s. Lehman Brothers, like other major investment firms, compiled these large bound volumes to record its business transactions such as mergers, initial and common stock offerings, View Details

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

etc.” Several responses questioned whether there was damage to the consumer, often at issue in antitrust. As Shoshanna Zuboff pointed out, in “free” high-tech services, the consumer benefits and resulting satisfaction are highly visible;... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service; Service; Service; Service; Service; Service

01 Apr 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

serve recovering cardiac patients and other individuals who may have potential heart problems. Reis, a medical doctor and former emergency-room physician from Israel, explained... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

enabling him to get his kicks out of helping others and the School in ways many of us will never know.” — HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett “Howard has contributed so much to the School in so many different... View Details