Management Of Business And Political Risk - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

combination of technology, psychology, and human coaching, Noom is backed by more than a decade of user research and product development. Its... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 1996
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The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions

looking for in applicants? Wheelwright: The vision of the MBA Program is to develop outstanding business leaders who contribute to the well-being of society. With this... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Action Plan: Role-Play

investigator trying to suss out other employees who are guilty of committing fraud, theft, or some other workplace misconduct. Before her career path took a turn from the business world to private... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photo by Christina Gandolfo; detective; private investigator; undercover; acting

04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Allston

Dean Nitin Nohria. “This generous gift will support future leaders who will bridge the worlds of business and engineering, spurring innovation View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services

Robert S. ("Bob") Gardella cheerfully admits that he found his position as assistant director of Alumni Career Services (ACS) in the most unlikely way: through an ad in the newspaper. Now his job is to help give HBS alumni the skills... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

15 Jul 2024
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A Sporting Chance

starting Harvard Business School in fall 1993. His mishap—a freak accidental fall—cost him the use of his legs and delayed his entrance to HBS by a year. But once there, he... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off

director of joint degree programs at HBS. It takes full advantage of greater Boston’s position as one of the world’s largest biotech clusters. The joint degree integrates the... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis

adds, springing back into the driver's seat. Someday, he acknowledges, he will not be able to manage the work on his own. For now, he says as he takes in the expansive view of rolling hills View Details

17 Mar 2017
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Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)

engaged network was—and continues to be—a big part of the HBS experience for me,” she says. Hawthorne remembers many HBS moments that continue to have an impact on her life. One was a case discussion a Technology View Details

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

public, very global moment began quite simply and humbly, in Depression-era Nebraska. BW: I was born in this little town of Geneva where my family had a paint mill, they had a View Details

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Dec 1999
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Dan Fenn

society in the United States and abroad. True to Teele's vision, as the Bulletin reported, HBS became involved in a variety of ways with management training programs at home... View Details

Keywords: Dan Fenn

01 Oct 1997
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Cathy A. Nichols

keeping an eye on capital costs are among the major challenges ahead. Of her goals, Nichols observes, "My desire is to build something I'm proud of - an excellent management... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

07 Sep 2021
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Growing Home

and began the modern era in Japan. “This is the only city in Japan where the price of land has not gone up since the bubble burst. But now, gradually, Mito has seen an upward trend, with more View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

07 Feb 2018
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Helping Startups Give Back

“If you really want your company to be associated with giving back and having a social mission,” says Janie Goldstein (MBA 1991), “it needs to be baked in from the start.” But while most startups want to be philanthropic, Goldstein, the... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Mark Tatum

In the case of Mark Tatum, medicine's loss will surely be the business world's gain. Almost since the day he was born in a war-torn village in Vietnam, his Jamaican-born father View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell

01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

success in running an established business or entrepreneurial venture." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "Have fun. Try to balance family, career, and society—something that is, in fact, very difficult to accomplish. For... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

altruistic reasons for serving, many also reported that such participation allowed them to practice business skills and make professional contacts not always possible through their everyday duties. "One... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

businesses and middle-income employees to New York City.) On the lower end of the wage scale, companies are forced to pay bonuses and to bus... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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