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Maxeme Tuchman
hurricanes, plus three different principals in one year." "Teaching in the classroom has a great impact," Max says, but by her second year of teaching "I knew I was made for district... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
people have become disillusioned in their religious beliefs and are leaving the church in great numbers. They are doing so mainly because they find church dogmas and traditions lack credibility. The church has not maintained pace with... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Instead of losing them, we developed immensely loyal customers. Sahlman: I took advantage of the opportunity to avoid upheaval by pursuing the only job from which you can't get fired! Actually, my colleagues and I try to focus on great... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
case study, as relevant today as it was then, of society breaking down under the brutalizing effects of war. For many subjects, from history to philosophy, from ethics to aesthetics, our intellectual inheritance from the ancient Greeks is so vital that those of us who... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
which help to provide explanations behind the divergent performances of the two countries, especially the higher levels of productivity seen in the Dutch economy since the Second World War. The Netherlands... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Constant Inspiration
partner organizations to work with students in Chile, where she has lived since 1997. In the second module of the required yearlong FIELD course, small teams of students develop or improve a product, service, or experience for their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation—a new kind of business book that isn’t as much about creating a vision as it is about shaping a context. Over time, it became clear to Hill that Pixar’s leaders didn’t profess some View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
to correct that market failure by investing in minority stakes in private companies or lending at subsidized rates to such firms." At the same time, many Communist and former Communist countries have gone to great lengths to overcome the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
into false states of euphoria. But, by and large, you've been able to keep your people grounded by helping to develop their strategic and financial wherewithal, by sharing company news and data with a strong sense of the larger context, and by giving your teams a View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
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Constanza Oliveira e Sousa
issues I didn’t know anything about—that’s when I first thought about getting an MBA. Why the MBA? My country, Portugal, is in big trouble—in Europe, it’s second from the bottom from Greece. The best thing I can do for Portugal is create... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
have included divergent takes on such topics as: Ep 16: Is the Job of the Presidency Too Big for One Person to Lead effectively? Moon: “A corporation is designed to enable the company to be led, whereas when you look at the presidency,... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
"Moonshine Shop," a group of plant-savvy creative generalists, is helping a great industrial company become more innovative. Chronicles the history of the Moonshine Shop, its successes and failures, and describes innovations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
But to what extent can mentoring—the old veteran teaching the young pup—speed up the process? DL: Well, I can't answer that with any authority because we didn't match the companies with entrepreneurs who didn't have coaches. What we do see is that there's a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Ann Lucena
with an interest in psychology, I thought it was a great way to educate an entire nation." Driven by a desire to know "how a world-changing company does what it does," Ann took her second... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
next technology that would unleash this cycle of market creation, market exuberance, and then, eventually, demands for regulation. After giving this question a great deal of thought, I became convinced that the next View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
a product that has 15 million users or reaches a market value of $100 million or $500 million, that’s a great feeling. At Google, the scale of your impact is much bigger. The first day we launched Social Search, we reached a billion... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II. In this turbulent era, he developed a distinctive focus and pedagogy that helped define business as a profession and grew a pioneering Harvard venture into... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
created, developed, and refined at HBS during the past century. The second was to illustrate the variety of ways in which those ideas have influenced students, the business world, and the academy. And the third was to encourage future... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”
a second two years at Yale “taught me the importance of liberal arts,” says Josh, “and I started to ponder bigger questions. What could I do that was important?” On his first day of business school classes, both interests collided in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
myself and my struggles in middle school. We need to have the same love and high expectations for the kids we serve. There can’t be two sets of rules.” Gospel truth: “I sing with a group at my church. I’m a solid alto, now and then I can hit a View Details