election - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Dec 2019
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A Recovery Squandered

01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006

in New Orleans, where he traveled with other HBS students earlier this year to assist with the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. Kennealey is also interested in working in politics and maybe holding elective office. Whatever he is... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

She developed Intrinsic's blended-learning model, with students learning online and in the classroom, while serving as one of the Fund's entrepreneurs-in-residence. In Boston, Unlocking Potential cofounder Scott Given (MBA 2010) found inspiration in the MBA View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

new electives - Negotiating Complex Deals and Disputes: Real Estate, Sports, Public-Private Partnerships, and Litigation, taught by newly promoted Professor of Management Michael A. Wheeler, and Dealmaking: Financial and International... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2013
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14 for '14

1.0. But food is one of the biggest industries on the planet, and the tech that supports it hasn't changed in 30 years. Stay tuned for big innovation." —Nick Taranto (MPA/MBA 2010), cofounder, Plated Karen Tumulty "History—with the recent exception of 1998—suggests... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Government; Information; Retail Trade

25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of China's labor shortage of migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations, next spring. California Research Center—When the... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

a lowercase "i" as well. Every year about 20 percent of the cases in the MBA Program are new. So innovation could be a new elective that’s introduced. Or innovation could be refreshing one of the first-year courses that we all took many... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2011
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A Growing Drumbeat

is just one entrepreneurship elective that has seen a jump in enrollment. When HBS associate professor Noam Wasserman initially offered Founders’ Dilemmas in 2009, 42 second-year MBAs signed up. Two years later, Wasserman and Senior... View Details

Keywords: Contests

07 May 2025
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Scaling New Heights

second-year MBA students in HBS’s field course Scaling Minority Businesses. Launched in Fall 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice reckoning sparked by George Floyd’s murder, the elective was designed to help Black-owned... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2015
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Lessons from a Megacity

with Senior Lecturer John Macomber’s new field method course Building Cities, part of the Immersion Experience Program (IXP) in the MBA Elective Curriculum. That’s how Schultz and her three teammates found themselves navigating between... View Details

Keywords: April White; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Oct 2001
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The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision

hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product Development, Houghton started... View Details

Keywords: eyeglasses

01 Mar 2013
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Two Decades of Social Progress

research and teaching. More than 500 students have enrolled in social enterprise electives this year, and more than 300 are currently involved in the Social Enterprise Club—one of the largest clubs on campus. Alumni, too, continue to... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

staggered boards at all companies (boards traditionally elect one-third of their members each year); requires that all directors receive a majority of votes cast to be elected; mandates the creation of a board risk committee; and forces... View Details

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

01 Feb 2000
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Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders

woman's election to the American presidency. In 1997 I cofounded the White House Project - with Barbara Lee, a civic activist working out of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Marie Wilson, president of the Ms. Foundation. We ran a ballot in... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

18 Dec 2019
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Thinking Smart About Numbers

Victorian architecture, a grand marble staircase, and glittering chandeliers. “It was the evening of our country’s General Election so we were very lucky to have full attendance,” says the club’s VP or Programming & Events, Julie Mulcahy... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Apr 2019
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Leading Schools That Change Lives

elected Wilmington mayor and a $16 million gift from a Salesianum alumnus (the third-largest gift to a U.S. Catholic high school) put construction of a new, city-owned sports facility on track for completion in 2020. Kennealey calls the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 2000
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Books

and read a twelve-month operating cash flow statement. Many HBS readers will recognize "The R&R Case," by HBS professor Howard Stevenson. Introduced in the 1980s, the case focuses on one of Reiss's business ventures, and for many years it was the first case taught in... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights

A student team pitches its venture to a panel of instructors, entrepreneurs, and investors on the final day of the Startup Bootcamp program. (photo by Susan Young) MBA Program Startup Bootcamp This is the first of a new January Wintersession being offered as an View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers

C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), is the only HBS alumnus among the eight candidates running in this year's election for the Harvard University Board of Overseers. Spangler, a prominent leader in both business and higher education,... View Details