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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
written about the status of women in academia and business—Herzlinger notes, "I am not someone who studies women. I believe you gain strength by being who you are and by being good at what you do." You became involved in research on health-care management well before... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
recipients of the School’s highest honor demonstrate the many paths to success, be it in government service, finance, or social enterprise. For the Records In the midst of Austin’s buzzy music scene, Caren Kelleher is finding her harmony... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
they had lost in the last five years and current owner-operators, impatiently awaiting a salve. For the latter, buy-in took a bit of pot-sweetening. Historically, when McDonald’s offered to partner on upgrades, it would View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake the topic. It wasn’t just a professional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain problems including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
When she joined the new private-sector team at Oxfam America as a freshly minted MBA in 2007, Roshini Moodley Naidoo was essentially given the following directive: All those great ideas we’ve been discussing? Make them happen. It was a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
1953, and he completed his degree in forestry in 1957. At age 23, he and Natty — who had made it clear that she had no intention of spending her life in the Canadian north woods as the wife of a lumberjack — came to Cambridge in pursuit... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
criticized its corporate governance. Laxey voted borrowed shares at the AGM. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208064 Evaluating M&A Deals—Equity Consideration Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
rewarding and valuable to society. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, who conducted the survey, met many of its respondents at Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, a prereunion program she launched last spring. Hart... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
ecommerce company often called the Amazon of Latin America, was founded in 1999, five years after Amazon itself. We also find that entrepreneurs will imitate startups from other emerging ecosystems. WeChat became the first superapp when View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
such behaviors led to undesirable consequences, even if they saw those behaviors as acceptable before they knew its consequences. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that a rational, analytic mindset can override the effects of one's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from... View Details
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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
its goal of preventing the onset of AD before symptoms arise or progress, and how we are now poised to take a giant step forward in preventing and curing Alzheimer’s disease. Capital Markets and Investing in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
HBS! 2000D had three students who looked very similar to the uninitiated: brown-haired, glasses-wearing men with similar haircuts. One day we had them all dress the same and switch seats to see if we could catch any of the professors. It... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
interview with NBC-10 Boston, noted the potential economic impacts of the invasion of Ukraine. "We will see it in fuels, natural gas, gasoline, also in food prices," Shih told the channel, noting that natural gas is also used to make... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
Mature companies understand that to compete today they need to innovate. But finding sources of innovation while still paying attention to the current business can be a struggle. The good news, says Harvard Business School professor Lynda... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
("product" functions i.e., marketing, R&D) increases as firms become less diversified, while the number of functional managers farther from the product ("administrative" functions i.e., finance, law, HR) increases with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
efficient and higher quality. After I left McKinsey, I went to GE, where those two ideas came together. I saw the way that GE was doing high stakes face-to-face negotiations for materials, things like metal components, plastic components, and electronic components, and... View Details