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Jenny Tison

right away. I persevered, believing I would ultimately succeed – I learned the power of positive expectations.” When Jenny returned home to Virginia, that power rose again when she tackled a sport not often... View Details

Platform for Dialogue

fashion, American and Indian cinema, Middle Eastern oil, Chilean minerals, Japanese and Greek shipping, and much more, to synthesize historical drivers of global change, I became convinced by the power of true Socratic teaching as... View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

In 2020, our faculty published 14 books that dive into their research and pull from their professional experiences on topics including the future of capitalism, managing time, how AI is transforming work, the power of experiments, a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

Editor's note: As traditional hierarchical organizations flatten, new ways of thinking about internal communications must be developed—news no longer flows just from top to bottom. In Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

the federal Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which was designed to protect competition by outlawing monopolistic business practices. This fear of monopoly power made Americans leery of business agreements that smacked of price-fixing. Yet... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

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Africa - Global Activities 2020

huge impact on my decision to return to Ghana immediately after HBS,” Kyei says. “Tuyee and I are excited that we’ve been able to help build this powerful coalition with Koby and accelerate the company’s growth. That would not have... View Details

23 May 2019
News

Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

customer base and needed the administrative and technical power of an established firm. In brokering the deal with Macy’s, the Becks were determined to remain part of the company. Marla serves as CEO and Barry as COO, and Bluemercury... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 May 2019
News

@Soldiers Field

PITCH PERFECT POWER SOURCE On March 8, Nina Bowman (MBA 1994) of Paravis Partners, former Johnson Publishing CEO Desirée Rogers (MBA 1985), and Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972) of the Wiley Group kicked off the 46th H. Naylor Fitzhugh... View Details

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

The computer age began some six decades ago with general-purpose machines with Star Wars-like names such as ENIAC and EDVAC. They were powered by vacuum tubes, big enough to fill an entire room, and developed by mathematicians under the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

01 Sep 2003
News

Globalization Revisited

however, they noted that marketing and the nature of globalization have changed in the last two decades, to a point Levitt could hardly have imagined. Thus, some of his ideas seem to have been overtaken by time, while other important phenomena, so View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2025
News

Patch Work

like-minded citizens to call it, ensuring that they were correctly directed to the right congressional office. But unless they rang during Capitol Hill’s business hours, they would never reach a live staffer. “We’ve learned the power of... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

03 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

what kind of infrastructure do utilities need to build, and importantly, when do they have to build it? Rebekah Emanuel: Conventional wisdom is that powering our electricity without carbon is going to be expensive, but you've said the... View Details

27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

(MBA 1980), president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit Green America, leverages the economic power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector

of growing responsibilities. On the USS Decatur, a guided missile destroyer, she led 18 sailors on the Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles team. She then studied engineering at the Naval Nuclear Power School and served on the aircraft carrier... View Details

May 2024
Teaching Note

The Meteoric Rise of Skims

By: Ayelet Israeli, Jill Avery and Leonard A. Schlesinger

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 524-023, "The Meteoric Rise of Skims." View Details

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Kirsten Hassert

I will unleash my own Inner Spiderman...with his motto: "With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility." I'll keep believing in the power of People, of 'Small' Things, and of Being Real – and use this to empower myself and... View Details

07 Jan 2016
News

Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation

generation. “The work that I’m doing now is trying to create a global organization that makes our kids what they don’t become necessarily at school: good, effective, world-improving people. We want to do this through liberating the new View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

fairly won.” The balance of the war had shifted again and with it, Lincoln’s possibilities for a second term. Rachel Carson The Power of Quiet Born in 1907, Rachel Carson grew up in Springdale, Pennsylvania, on a 65-acre farm. “I can... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 May 2013
News

Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977

studies at Harvard College and HBS. He has been a dedicated and creative fundraiser on both sides of the Charles River and was the first HBS Fund Chair to match the class gift of each year’s graduating students, a tradition continued by his successor Paul Finnegan (MBA... View Details

01 Aug 2017
News

Finding Purpose in Profit

the work that I am fortunate enough to do every day,” she observes, “is inspiring people to use the power of business as a force for good.” (Published August 2017) View Details

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