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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Wingspanbank's advertising campaign tapped). "Sometimes a new technology is so disruptive that the normal organization mechanisms are not adequate to get the change through fast enough," says McFarlan, noting that View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
political scientist Bond notes. “Based on the way the voters turned out last time, they appreciated that.” HBS Experience Helps Both Candidates CHALLENGER: Taylor (second from left) with buddies in Iraq, with Vice President Cheney, and on... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
Greetings from HBS! My name is Siri and I am a second-year student and a candidate for the joint MBA/MPP program between HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Before graduate school, I worked for three years as a management... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
photo by Jean-Marie Wecker photo by Jean-Marie Wecker Her interest in learning more about the role she could play in both the private and the public arenas inspired Kyarisiima to pursue joint degrees at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
fledgling campaign to talk about business, politics, and what we should consider when we think of youth in Baltimore. Why do you want to be mayor of Baltimore? I want to be a counterpoint for Baltimore and what our city has heard about... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
gain a better understanding of their migratory patterns. But that's just what Josh Haacker (HBS '03) did, in addition to strategic planning and numbers-crunching, as an HBS Summer Fellow at the Alaska Conservation Foundation, which placed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
Ultimately, says HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, the Yankees—who signed Tanaka to a seven-year, $155 million deal—were looking for what every team seeks in a free agent: a player who can help them win more games. But ever since... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
It's a pittance in the West. A loan of only $500 to $1,200, however, can make all the difference for a man or woman eking out a living in the developing world. Just that much—the typical range of microfinance loans, according to Michael Chu, a poverty expert and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
career in software engineering.Separately, I’ve always been passionate about entrepreneurship. When I was twelve, a friend and I built a neighborhood dog walking business—thanks to Wag, we now understand how much money we left on the table When I came to UCLA, I... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
by a capital campaign, which is what we've decided to do. What else should HBS alumni know about the campaign? I would like them to know that every single one of the priorities I've mentioned is critical to the mission of the School. As... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, HBS assistant professor Charles King III investigates whether, indeed, cigarette companies advertise to magazine readers between the ages of 12 and 17. As King and... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
of people in need. Ebru Kohen (OPM 43, 2013) in Istanbul is helping with coordination locally. “This is an example of the remarkable collaborative power of the HBS network. More information on this campaign... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
Mobilization By: Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri Abstract—Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Fall Reunions
reunions held October 3–6. Attendees took advantage of the opportunities to return to the classroom, mingle with old friends and faculty members, and make new acquaintances. In his welcoming remarks, Dean Kim B. Clark discussed the School's first-ever capital View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
That’s what we did at our 20th HBS reunion a few years ago. We decided to put aside the suggested section case discussion to instead share the personal challenges that no one escapes life without. It was unbelievably powerful to hear... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 17 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
If Marketing Experts Ran Elections
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.For all the coverage of the Presidential... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch