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- 01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
company's marine products department, watching over the export of salmon and crab. Makihara's credentials were far from traditional by Japanese standards. Although his late father had been a Mitsubishi manager and his wife was the...
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- 14 Nov 2019
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Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
implement the changes, then you make the big remodel change and become visibly different. And we're actually right at the point of making that transition where we've gotten the new initiatives in place and are beginning to remodel and...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
1911 HBS establishes the Bureau of Business Research to write cases. 1922 Founding of Harvard Business Review (HBR). 1930s Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger conduct pioneering studies establishing the importance of field-based industrial research as Mayo’s The View Details
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Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton;
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- 14 Feb 2018
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A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
development. In both, she watched as many qualified women were passed over for the promotions they had earned, were paid less than male colleagues in identical positions, and were disregarded and dismissed because they were female. “Great...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,...
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Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2022
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Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
developed our courses,” said Bower. “The field of marketing developed around case writing in retail and consumer goods companies. The field of management accounting developed from cases on the use of numbers for managers to use for control. And the whole field of View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2014
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Willing Hands
Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers
biotech industry. At HBS, Higgins currently teaches Self-Assessment and Career Development in the MBA curriculum and Strategic Human Resource Management in the Executive Education Program. What is a career imprint? Organizational career...
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- 30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise
opportunity, was the grace of a friend. And I often say, if it’s not right for you, take the call from the recruiter, pass it on. I think that’s a really good thing. I had always known how awesome Reddit was. I mean, it had grown over the...
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- 16 Feb 2022
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Holding Business to Account
returns but who also use the unique access and voice we have as investors to engage management and redirect corporate efforts toward long-term sustainability.” The firm has been active in encouraging companies to be leaders on issues from climate change to View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures
fight for “what was right and good” in books he’d read as a child, like Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. It was a way of seeing the world Singer absorbed from his parents and the synagogue they attended as a family in suburban...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script
is the secret sauce behind this new franchise? Two alumni on different sides of the process sum it up the same way: be true to the brand’s core value of creative, open-ended play. Movie producer Dan Lin (MBA 1999) got the idea for making a Lego movie by View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business
involved here, and we need to take care of that. We also need to decide whether reproduction is some sort of human right or whether infertility is a medical condition. If the answer is yes to either of...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
could tell right away if he had a couple of tickets for the Giants game on Saturday,” Baer recalls. “He’d give me a little nod, and I’d know — yes! — we would be going to Candlestick to watch Willie Mays...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Book of Esports: The Definitive Guide to Competitive Video Games by William Collis (MBA 2011) RosettaBooks Almost overnight, esports—or competitive video games—have exploded into the largest entertainment and sporting phenomenon...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
course in human behavior didn’t strike him as particularly relevant in 1976, but when he started running Bulova, the watch company that Loews owned for many years, he realized its value. “I found that in...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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An Advocate for Women's Equality
Even with Nixon's backing, pressure against her came from inside the administration. When Barbara Hackman Franklin (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964) was appointed to recruit women for leadership positions in the Nixon administration, there was a problem View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Notes from W50
Fortune 500 companies." —Dean Nitin Nohria "Eighty-two percent of women believe that prioritizing family over work is a barrier to success. Let's not let our humanity be a barrier." —Professor Robin Ely "Do women need to do more leaning...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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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...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters