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- 01 Jun 2006
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Managing Family Assets
I feel extremely fortunate. I also feel I was handed a responsibility to be a steward of the wealth that was created by my great-grandfather and my grandfather and perpetuated by my father. Why is discussing financial matters difficult... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance.” Koehn’s response follows. First, there are many important lessons for business leaders to be found in areas outside business. When we look at enduring works of literature, for example, we... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
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Men [sic] and machines - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details
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Gabriel Handel | About
Collection Advisory group, the HBS Information Security working group, and Joint Degree steering committees, among others. Recent areas of focus have included the Digital Transformation task force and Digital Transformation implementation, the Harvard University... View Details
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Connie Walsh
team for $5B Staples Brands Group at Staples, Inc. She was responsible for marketing & developing product lines and brands across retail, contract, online and catalogue businesses and for the packaging strategy and production of over... View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
Limits To Leadership Being the chief executive of any company is a demanding job. Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position lacks the inherent power and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Bagley: Legal literacy should be a priority for managers. In her new book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk (HBS Press), Associate Professor Constance E. Bagley contends that managers who delegate View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
behavioral self-control. Finally, Experiment 5 showed that the absence of a self-control conflict eliminated the effect of rituals on behavior, demonstrating that rituals affect behavioral self-control specifically because they alter View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
develop effective strategies for building new leadership roles in business and nonprofit organizations. Many participants, whose careers had diverged from more traditional business paths when their family-related responsibilities... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
skills needed to grasp and implement the general managerial responsibilities required to be a successful entrepreneur. The text provides an innovative approach to teaching the core general management skills via the lens of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
drivers, nursing homes, and homeless shelters. “We’re running twelve-to-sixteen hours a day, seven days a week.” Lessons in Leadership For Patel, both the intensity and the complexity of the pandemic response offer important lessons in... View Details
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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA
specifically interested in the area of biological sensors and the power they have to convert a biological response into an electrical signal. Through this conversion, analysis and research can be performed for improvement in medical areas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
into a leader, and the roles leaders play as they take on expanded responsibilities within their organizations. HBX was conceived to bring the engaged learning of the HBS class-room to an online platform. Video cases in an HBX course “not... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
Bines to help turn Letts around. Once again, Bines found himself taking on responsibilities he had never held before - this time as an operations manager - and rising to the occasion. So when Letts was sold to a large commercial printing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
poll. This spring, the second annual poll garnered an impressive 92 percent response rate among first-year students. Moret was first drawn to student affairs at Louisiana State University, where he had been admitted on a music scholarship... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
needs and expectations, using valuable information from the ongoing MBA and Executive Education surveys. Those surveys helped the committee identify program ideas targeted to specific age groups. The committee also developed a set of “alumni engagement metrics” to... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
George P. Baker offered him a full-time faculty position at the School. Shortly after that, the Pentagon called again, this time asking Fox to be assistant secretary of the Army, the senior government official responsible for Army... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
Russia, now 9 and 12 years old. Recently divorced, Olson married Candice Carpenter (MBA '83), the former chairman and CEO of iVillage, in September. With the future of print publishing in a digital age an ongoing topic of debate, one of Random House's View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
net in their career search. We need to ensure that they continue to have a broad set of opportunities to choose from and help them consider those options - it's a way to explore and confirm their interests." In response to this year's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
HBS, led a successful alumni event last year titled “How I Leveraged My Harvard MBA,” which featured a panel of alumnae from the Classes of ’70, ’80, ’90, and ’00. Afterward, she says, she was tapped to help further with the Women’s Initiative and soon took on the... View Details