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- 01 Oct 2001
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Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
Before you make that next big deal — to buy a car, hire new staff, or acquire a company — you'd better brush up on your ballroom skills. In business today, negotiating is more like an intricate dance than a cold transaction, according to... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual fall Alumni Board Meeting in late September, bringing together its members for a three-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA/MPA 2007) founded a business that improves the health and hygiene of millions of women. But her goal is much bigger: empowering women by fostering entrepreneurship. Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) brings... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
John Jong-Hyun Kim (MBA 1993) saw the School pivot its entire MBA and doctoral curriculum to an online model in just ten days—a move informed by years of experience developing HBS Online, the Harvard View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs go down the road less traveled to work with entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs with humility and curiosity, and lending our skills, experience, and energy to the task of improving our communities and our economy," says Singer. The team provided advice on everything from operational improvements to View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a search for the right View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
moment of her diagnosis, an unexpected silver lining from her own experience, her career pivot, and how she sees her work evolving in the future. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Parul, can you take me back to the moment when you received your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
organizations know, R&D is an expensive proposition, but when done right, it can be an enormous competitive advantage. HBS’s unique business model gives the School a leg up, says Senior Associate Dean and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
that personalized medicine brings. This is particularly important in fast-moving diseases, where the window for a positive outcome is small. What aspects of their business model do pharmaceutical companies... View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
Old Boys team photo with the Keio Rugby Club (photos courtesy HBS Rugby club) John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) was in his first year at Harvard Business School when he heard a New Zealander trying to recruit new students for the rugby club. The... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
renewables compete very well with expensive oil-based energy and are more reliable. A domestic focus on efficiency and renewables can reduce domestic energy bills and create diversification. A favorable business climate for renewables... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Royster spends them overseeing strategy and business development. “I’m into this physically, emotionally, and spiritually,” he says. “What we’re doing hasn’t been done before in this part of the world, and it has the power to transform... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
evolve in the years you’ve been teaching at HBS? Tom Eisenmann: In the past 25 years, the Entrepreneurial Management academic unit, the group in which Bill and I work, has grown to include more than 30 faculty members who are engaged in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
International, a pioneer in microfinance investing. “I was completely taken with everything he said,” says Rodríguez of the origins of their friendship, which has evolved from mentor, to collaborator, to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
Protecting the country’s conservation land while also turning a profit guides the business model at The Lyme Timber Company. David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996), managing director at the timberland... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
passion.” That passion didn’t become a business for Corsello until 2016. The idea had come to him as he drove home from an OPM unit. On the expressway he saw signs for McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s. Why, he wondered, was there no... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
have a “guilty pleasure” author? James Michener. For some reason he captured my imagination years ago. Another guilty pleasure is Sports Illustrated. Nancy Koehn is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration and a View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
how business is done in Colorado and to make it the leader in responsible business practice,” she says. “There are more than 1,800 Certified B Corporations, in more than 130 industries and 50 countries.... View Details