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- 01 Dec 2001
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Faculty News
and the MBA elective The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. Koehn's research and writing focus on branding, business strategy, and connecting with customers and on the broad range of economic, social, and organizational transitions that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Faculty Updates
real estate in particular, Poorvu began teaching Real Property Asset Management and Field Studies in Real Property and writing cases at HBS in 1965. A former faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Poorvu is the author or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
of design thinking—which is where you find the creativity, empathy, and human-centered work. But creative solutions need good testing. Without it you’re going to waste a lot of money scaling solutions that won’t work. And that’s the hole in design thinking: testing. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
created value in the for-profit marketplace and want to take a similar approach with philanthropy," Emerson asserts. Joining this group of philanthropists are baby boomers, who are "entering their retirement years very engaged," Emerson notes. "They are not going to be... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
school, something I didn’t know anything about. After leaving Grand Bank, I started Grand Angels to help local entrepreneurs. We’re here not only to write the checks but to mentor companies we invest in. Many entrepreneurs will tell you... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?
write to the government, and that started me thinking about America’s tax policy. Specifically, I recalled Warren Buffett’s observation that his secretary paid a higher tax rate than he did and that it was hard for him to justify that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Powered by the HBS Fund
alumni.hbs.edu/facultyresearch to watch: Professor Jan Rivkin talk about his passion for case writing and the origin of his case on LEGO’s return from bankruptcy. Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun discuss how she uses data to explore... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
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Jeffrey Immelt: How I Remade GE
“For the past 16 years GE has been undergoing the most consequential makeover in its history,” departing CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) writes in Harvard Business Review. “We were a classic conglomerate. Now people are calling us a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice
the ways in which game theory can help explain actual patterns of interaction. Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In a new book that draws on nearly two decades of her View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
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Pointing the Way to a Better World
to research and write the book, film the documentary, and promote both projects on a speaking tour last fall. While she returns to her financial work this year, she knows the book’s work—to inspire change—is far from over. Whether it’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
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Courting the Poor
assistance of LARC senior researcher Ricardo Reisen de Pinho (PMD 74, 1999), Frei was soon on her way to researching and writing “Magazine Luiza: Building a Retail Model of ‘Courting the Poor.’ ” “Magazine Luiza has made a business of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Books
Jay Lorsch and the Boston Consulting Group’s Colin Carter (MBA ’71) argue that corporate boards have made progress in the last decade, but are being pressed to perform unrealistic duties, given their structure, processes, and membership. “Boards are trying to raise... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Inside Executive Search
source will become a candidate for a search. Developing and Presenting Candidates. After determining a candidate’s potential interest, we arrange a confidential meeting to assess the person against key selection criteria. We then write... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Back to School
you can ride three miles. If you can ride three miles, you can ride 30 miles. If you can ride 30 miles, you can ride 300 miles How to: Write a Song Our instructor: Amrita Sen (MBA 1999), professional singer-songwriter I’ve been singing... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
this episode of Skydeck, Schwarzman and I discuss the origins of his audacity, his path to success, and what he’s learned from the low points. READ MORE Dan: Why did you write this book? What impact did you want it to have? Steve: I wrote... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Fast Casual
Privately owned, with 1,350 locations in 37 states and $1.4 billion in annual sales, PRG is in the “fast casual” sector of the restaurant business — that’s shorthand for not selling hamburgers — and is best known for its Panda Express outlets. Greatly influenced by the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
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Running Man
And he kept running after that, too—weathering miles, years, and COVID. Just this summer, at 77, he competed as the oldest runner in the renowned 100-mile Western States Endurance Run. Today, still interested in inspiring runners and non-runners alike, Spector is View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
They are playing songs that everybody knows and the crowd will be singing along.” These students—“probably the best guitarists in the area”—are the next generation of professional musicians, the people who will be invigorating traditional bachata, View Details