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25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Professor of Business Administration Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

Oregon, when she was six years old, and her parents’ anxious search for a home in the best possible school district, which led to a full-tuition scholarship at the University of Oregon. Noting that the option to choose one’s neighborhood... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

empathize or understand the pain point. We were often asked by the investors to talk to their wives or their administrative assistants.” Eventually, Barna and co-founder Katia Beauchamp (MBA 2010) closed a $1.4 million seed round that... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate ourselves." Senior Lecturer... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

presents practical information about them, including whether they led to successful and unsuccessful outcomes. Faculty Books The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations by Tsedal Neeley (Princeton View Details

24 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

model that will draw faculty, students, and alumni from across the University to reinvent how companies compete and thrive in the 21st century. "How will we do this?" he said. "By focusing on big problems, on an open platform, with... View Details

23 Sep 2020
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HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

This week, Dean Nohria shared the School’s Action Plan for Racial Equity in a letter to the HBS community. “The horrifying murder of George Floyd, and an all too long history of similar injustices, has spurred our collective awakening to the grave and continuing... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

Preface by Augustus White III, M.D. (AMP 94, 1984) Harvard University Press Growing up in Jim Crow–era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute

approaching onset of the brain-bruising written assignments that were, for several decades, a requirement for first-year MBAs. These exercises came in several different incarnations, best known by their course acronyms: EA General (Elements of View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

to enroll at a local university. University was the bridge to who I am today. Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) Segment Head, Momentum Retail A dream grounded I’ve been intrigued by aviation since childhood. After HBS I spent several years... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

cliché that “money can’t buy happiness” and shown it to be false. MN: My collaborator, Elizabeth Dunn [of the University of British Columbia], and I started out looking at whether giving money to others makes you happier than spending it... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

200,000 qualified plug-ins domestically—a number that Tesla and GM could hit within the next year. Sales of all-electrics would undoubtedly slump were the Trump administration to end the federal tax credit program altogether, as some EV... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

in the "Basic Law," Hong Kong's post-handover charter, the territory's global position is constitutionally mandated and remains a special administrative region. Professor Ezra Vogel, director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Jun 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

of the School’s global journey than Professor Krishna Palepu, who arrived on campus in 1983. At the time, “most of the curriculum was based on materials that were developed using US company experiences in the US context,” recalls Palepu, the Ross Graham Walker... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2015
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The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events

Recent HBS Campaign Regional Events & Leadership Meeting Craig Harrison (MBA 1980), Ellen O'Hara (MBA 1980), Len Schulwitz (MBA 1979), and Janine Schulwitz (MBA 1979) enjoyed the general reception prior to the evening’s formal program of the Seattle Regional Event.... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men

professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2012
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High Honors

botanic gardens, pet shelters, and arts organizations near their Miami home, the Stampses have partnered with some two dozen (and counting) universities around the country to offer more than 300 merit scholarships to the very best and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara

economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details