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- July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Supplement
United Rentals (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Board Committees; Chairman; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; North America
Lorsch, Jay W., and Kathleen Durante. "United Rentals (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 414-031, July 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- 2007
- Book
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. (Winner of Association of American Publishers Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management. Winner of Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship for the book which makes an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work presented by American Sociological Association.)
- 14 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022
texts created a foundation for a friendship, and that friendship turned into something more as summer turned into fall and we found ourselves back in Boston. Now here we are some six years later, engaged and getting ready to graduate... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
general who was a wine buff. In 1970, after nine years as a fighter pilot, he traded his cockpit for a seat at HBS, where he gained the credentials and expertise to pursue his entrepreneurial dream. Initially rebuffed by financiers on Wall Street, Jones finally View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
frame and articulate that value. Second, price-testing is increasingly important. In his autobiography written in 1963, ad man David Ogilvy noted that, “Most people assume companies use scientific methods in pricing, but throughout my career, I have View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
ICHOM - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
framework, Stefan Larsson at the Boston Consulting Group and Martin Ingvar at the Karolinska Institute were exploring the potential of outcomes measurement themselves while studying the impact of Sweden’s extensive disease registries. View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022
did during their deferral years. Read More>>> LEARNING FROM THE ENTREPRENEURS-IN-RESIDENCE AS A HARVARD MS/MBA STUDENT I have found during my first year at Harvard Business School that there are an infinite number of ways to... View Details
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
It was founded by Rockefeller and Ikea foundations and the Bezos Earth Fund. GEAPP launched at COP26 with aligned investments of $10B+. It is an alliance of preeminent philanthropic, government, donor, multilateral development banks,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
his own research, he has spent hundreds of hours studying a similarly fraught industry—high-risk medical transport teams—to learn how they acquire knowledge that can literally mean the difference between life and death. He found that much... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
similarly strive to develop and quickly market a minimum viable algorithm. This approach may take some convincing; the DNA of founding technical teams is often around solving technical puzzles and increasing accuracy from 90 percent to 95... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
value freedom—they say, people have their own agency,” Rouen says. “Therefore, it’s their responsibility if they get sick or not, so governments have less fear of being blamed.” Healthcare woes linked with higher underreporting The researchers also View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
networked and got things done. But no one ever asked him to lunch. Many of the Black executives found their peers standoffish, perhaps because they were not used to being around black people. They concluded that their colleagues were just... View Details
- Profile
Ramya Sundar
for the first time here. Being part of the HBS community is like... ...being part of a truly global community. I’ve met some incredible people here at HBS. Even though social interactions have been impacted to a certain extent due to COVID this year, we have View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
Does Gender Diversity in Management Enhance Performance? Why? A variety of explanations for the positive correlation between gender diversity and better business performance found in a recent McKinsey study were advanced in responses to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
how powerful it was," he said. "People shared our CSR report with their friends, their parents, their kids as a way of saying, 'Look at how we're helping to build a better world.' " And ultimately, Conant found that as CEO,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
beyond a few photos on the course website, but several gadget aficionado blogs found the photos and linked to them. The buzz went viral, eventually garnering Clocky a photo on the front page of the L.A. Times, a mention in Jay Leno's... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Podcast with: Interviewer: Running Time: Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whom many credited with founding the discipline of business history, died at age 88 on May 9, 2007. His work is legendary, but so too was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
tailored therapies based on gene targeting feels like the promised land. A patient doing what she can today While potential therapies for HHT feel more tenable today than ever before, I found I could not sit on the sidelines. I never... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
Fellows program . Both ECs also mentioned that the program both found and paid for intern housing, which was an incredible benefit. I decided to apply, while still looking around at different opportunities at health care startups or... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details