Informal Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jan 2015
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Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

the Grand Hyatt Tokyo for a Japan regional event. The evening featured remarks by Dean Nohria, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi, Regional Chair Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993), Campaign Managing Director Janet Cahill, and Thierry G. Porte (MBA... View Details

March 2006
Book Review

Book review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies

By: Rakesh Khurana

Keywords: Economic Systems; Information; Society; Management

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01 Jun 2010
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Faculty Books

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Crown Business) Professor Moon examines what it means for a company to offer something that is fundamentally, comprehensively different. She identifies iconoclastic companies like Apple and Google that have... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management

01 Jun 2013
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Leadership Fellows

LEADERSHIP FELLOWS: This past winter, 19 Class of 2013 MBAs were chosen for the School's Leadership Fellows program, which supports graduates as they serve in yearlong management positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations.... View Details

15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

David Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus; Herman B. Leonard, George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management and Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration; and Lynn S. Paine, John G. McLean Professor... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2002
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The Campaign for Harvard Business School

practice of management worldwide. The influence of the campaign is already visible throughout HBS, from Spangler Center to Hawes Hall to the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. The campaign has also raised significant unrestricted funds to... View Details

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

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

in an Omnichannel World, Vol. 8 edited by Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno, Sicupira Family Associate Professor, Technology and Operations Management Unit Springer Series in Supply Chain Management The... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock

and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that manages to steer clear of that fate.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2025
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Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

Creating Brand Value, Ofek and his co-authors look at the company’s evolution from toy manufacturer to IP franchise manager and the reinvigoration of the famous and famously fraught brand. It wasn’t just the considerable hype around the... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; Illustrations by Miguel Porlan; Educational Services

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Other Student Organizations | MBA

Members of this group are a support to one another, sharing strategies for managing academics, family, and all that falls under the work/life umbrella. Leadership Leora Sutton, lsutton@mba2025.hbs.edu Milly Krysil, mkrysil@mba2025.hbs.edu... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

going to be taught this year, and we’re asking students to focus on how Apple and Google managed a public health crisis, where literally millions of people were dying from COVID-19 around the globe. Was it okay for Apple to say to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA

2011, Harvard College banned ROTC—but Harvard Business School has long recognized the synergy between military experience and business education. In fact, the Executive Education Advanced Management Program was founded in 1945 as a war... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

10 Sep 2020
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Ken Powell Named 2020 HAA Award Recipient

Ken Powell (MBA 1974) Ken Powell (MBA 1974) Executive coach and management consultant Ken Powell (MBA 1974) was one of six Harvard alumni named a recipient of the 2020 HAA Award. The awards are presented annually to recognize alumni for... View Details

December 1999 (Revised September 2000)
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Excite@Home: Betting on a Broadband Revolution

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Matthew Sandoval

In January 1999, @Home, a high-speed Internet access provider, announced the $6.7 billion purchase of Excite, the second largest of the major Internet "portals." This purchase marked a continuing consolidation of companies in the Internet "content" and "access"... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Joint Ventures; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

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01 Jun 2012
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A Better World, One Idea at a Time

Pacific, which plans to use modern agricultural technology and management to enable people living on remote Pacific islands to grow fresh vegetables and fish to replace unhealthful diets high in calories and low in nutrition. Second place... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; cosmetics; Crop Production; Agriculture; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

10 Apr 2008
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The Sum of Our Own Greatness

As birthday parties go, this one was special. The faculty canceled classes, and the administrative staff collectively stepped away from their desks to join in daylong festivities marking the School’s 100th birthday on April 8. A big-top-style tent erected over the Shad... View Details

Keywords: Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

13 Jul 2016
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From Money to Ministry

Photography by Tori Soper Rodney Quainton (MBA 1970) had always wanted to be a banker. At Yale (Class of 1962), courses on money management and banking attracted him. “At that time,” he recalls, “banking was considered an honorable... View Details