Activities - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

address: that salespeople promoted innovations; that they acted as brokers of information; and that their activities "embodied the spirit of capitalism in popular culture." Could you elaborate on the importance of these themes? A: In the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

seen a variation on this story? Getting the Bosses' Approval From Ted Watson The general idea—hardly unique to us—was to do business consistently across all of our operating units. We would have the same approach to conducting any View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen

11 May 2021
Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

which has a suggested stakeholder, that we’re passing along to the various teams. For example, this summer I interned with the Admissions and Financial Aid office, and my work was solely dedicated to attempting to center some of those recommendations. We’re seeing that... View Details

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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

without a lost time accident.” Another image documenting employees’ rights to file complaints captured management and union representatives together at a grievance committee meeting. Pictures of baseball games and other leisure activities... View Details

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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Archives Processing Team. Process faculty papers and contemporary business manuscript collections with a specialty in web archiving. Active member of New England Archivists. Elizabeth Szkirpan Collections & Discovery Specialist Curriculum... View Details

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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

identified a few board members with whom she could build a relationship and invited them to coffee. “It’s not rocket science. You create coalitions and keep your balance because you’ll always get pushback.” Early on, she also did an View Details

05 Aug 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

Cushing, considered the father of modern neurosurgery, was operating at Harvard Medical School nearly a century ago. And even with all the activity Amadio describes, the bench-to-bedside time for new treatments has averaged more than a... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

emerging initiatives. Without these funds the School's ability to advance pathbreaking new programs and activities is severely limited. Gifts to the School's endowment strengthen the ability to fund established commitments such as... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Class Notes Extra

about the possibility of doing good, whatever one's circumstance.” Banthoon and family East Meets West Despite his distance from HBS, Banthoon Lamsam has issued fairly regular reports on his many activities and challenges as president of... View Details

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Entrepreneurship by country

How can I find data on entrepreneurial activity in different countries? Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): GEM is a consortium of academic institutions responsible for collecting data and producing reports. ... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Gift for MBA Global Reach

activities overseas,” stated Rubenstein, who has ties to the School through his wife, Alice Rogoff Rubenstein (MBA ’78), and through service on the Board of Dean’s Advisors. Said Dean Nitin Nohria, “This extremely generous and important... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

(reported revenues before they were earned) or otherwise manipulated the books to make their earnings look better, were more likely to cast a call. "If you've been engaging in somewhat shady activity in your accounting books, the last... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

project will be to ask a similar question of the private sector: Does private-sector economic activity create or crowd out additional private-sector opportunities? Put differently, did Bill Gates's decision to relocate Microsoft to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

that the markets between the very rich and the poor are disappearing. Those firms are losing the middle ground, where a lot of consumer activity has traditionally taken place. Companies also must compete for skills and talent. That has... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

28 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

but, in general, China has discouraged or actively undermined local entrepreneurship in favor of an foreign direct investment-dependent approach, they say. India, on the other hand, is building an infrastructure—however slowly—that allows... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

beverage business incubator when it opens later this year. Located right next to a public transportation stop, the new facility will spur economic activity in one of Chicago’s highest need neighborhoods, East Garfield Park on Chicago’s... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

19 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5

conversations needed to learn more about the role race has played in your life and how you can more actively fight racism wherever you are. Here are some questions to get you started: What was the first time you realized that people were... View Details

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Historical Research - India

Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80 India, Raj and Empire
Diaries, letters, maps, sketches and official and private papers relating to the East India Company's activities... View Details

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Video Management Policy | About

the video policy, cameras procured with audio detection and recording features may not be activated or configured to record audio Cameras are used to support facilities and operations management across campus. Live video may be provided... View Details

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Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff | About

formats. The use of social media by students, participants, staff, faculty, or class visitors is not permitted in any form during course-related sessions. This is intended to ensure that class-related activities remain confidential.... View Details

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