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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
Kayla Brochu (MBA/JD 1999) deployed business and legal strategies to combat some of the world's worst crimes as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Expert on Technology-Facilitated Child Abuse, Exploitation, and Trafficking.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
The authors propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming a business in the face of imminent disruption. They build upon the lessons of Xerox, Apple, and Barnes & Noble... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Harvard Management’s El-Erian Steps Down
Mohamed El-Erian, the president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) and a member of the HBS faculty, announced in September that he would step down from HMC at the end of this year and return to California and his former firm, Pacific Investment Management... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market might be ready for the introduction of a particular category and brand .The practice of using deodorants, for example, was much slower to spread in Europe than in the United States. There was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
emotional context of business decisions,” Andrews noted. “The addition of personal values and aspirations became an integral part of his philosophy of management.” As his interest and influence in the Business Policy area expanded,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
help patients at the time, in a procedure, how to cope with pain while they have a chance to still get drugs, to practice that while you guide them, it changes the way they process pain. “If you look at the uses of hypnotic interventions,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Emmons Heads Christensen Center
In addition, the center will conduct and disseminate research on best practices and innovations in case-method pedagogy, and serve as a convener for symposia on teaching and learning. Funding for the center has been an important goal of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
common to both major corporations and mom-and-pop shops, and offered practical solutions based on his research. One case Narayanan used to illustrate his point involved a family-owned video store. Generally in the past, he said, as many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding
for the Dean's Fund provides a bridge between our remarkable past and what we hope will be our extraordinary future. Robert Steven Kaplan (MBA 1983) Professor of Management Practice Senior Associate Dean for External Relations See "Campus... View Details
Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan
- 05 May 2011
- News
Breaking Ground in Manufacturing
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
traditional forms of career advancement. After eight years with the company, he decided to go to HBS. “The idea came from my time as an intern at Digital Equipment Corp. in the United States while I was a university student,” he said. He... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
affiliated with firms here in the United States. Venture capital has been practiced in a deeper, more profound way in the United States than anywhere else in the world for... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
prosperity,” says Elumelu. “That is at the heart of Africapitalism.” The retired chief executive officer, now chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) and the founder of Heirs Holdings, Elumelu has put the tenet of this... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Students take part in "living cases," where they work with an active social entrepreneur. The course concludes with an exploration of the role of business leaders on nonprofit boards. Offered three times since the spring 1995 semester, the course has received high... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
original pilot for CBS (“a comedic drama about a woman who is a lawyer and a doctor and manages to practice both”) and completing a rewrite of a pilot for Bravo set in the diamond trade. Best fuel for a marathon writing session: “The... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
alumni like former IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti (MBA ’64) brought customer service best practices from the private sector to government (http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2000/april/qanda.html). Of course, a new generation of HBS... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
Partnership (TPP) with the United States, Singapore, Australia, Chile, and seven other countries. “Strong political sensitivities over comprehensive tariff elimination—a TPP negotiating principle—made Japan’s participation extremely... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
There are over three million corporations in the United States today. From my experience working with a range of businesses, I am sure there is no cancer of immorality among them. The vast majority of our alumni and business leaders are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
women It's important to remember that HBS has been global from its founding: Our very first MBA class included students from Brazil and Canada. Today, 34 percent of our students and 42 percent of our faculty hail from outside the United... View Details
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
combination of analytical and intuitive reasoning we practiced has been invaluable in growing a company.” Looking to the future, Ayers currently is envisioning what IDEXX would look like as a $2 billion firm. Even with IDEXX’s leap in... View Details