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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
sexual harassment and double standards, the gender gap continues to hinder the advancement of women in the professional world. In Digital Goddess, Victoria Montgomery-Brown shares her story in an entertaining and educational light. Told... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
total) and presents them in audio form, narrated by one of several professional readers. For any busy person who loves great journalism from a range of sources it is a godsend: I often listen to articles while traveling, commuting,... View Details
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
the horizontal model, smaller competitors are sustaining themselves on discrete pieces of the business. RAMBUS offers the core technology, NVidia specializes in design, and TSMC offers fabrication services. "The key strategic question is where to play in the value... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
world: dot-coms, dot-com enablers (technology and service providers), and "wannadots" (established companies seeking to incorporate the Internet into their activities). These organizations must find ways to thrive in a digital age that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
graduating from Harvard Business School, Ronnie Cohen made a smooth transition to the high-powered world of McKinsey & Company. Thus, it came as a surprise to his colleagues when he decided to depart two years later to cofound a firm that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
“Business Solutions for Inclusive Prosperity.” The intersection of business and society is a topic Chu has been immersed in, as a practitioner and a researcher, for almost 30 years. He is a partner emeritus of the IGNIA Fund, a venture capital View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
From Beats to Tweets
MC Hammer, the 1990s rapper known to his mother as Stanley K. Burrell, visited HBSin February in his latest incarnation: expert on social-media sites, music, and business. According to the Harvard Crimson, Burrell noted that social media, more than any other, excels in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
Edited by Linda Kush Fifty years ago, two Scotsmen started an HBS rugby team to help relieve the stress of studies. A look back at one of the School's most storied traditions. Photo courtesy of Mike Rush (MBA 1972) When the game of rugby first came to Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Wizard to the Rescue
Just how much is the famous HBS brand worth? Quite a lot, it seems, from the humorous turn of events in this year’s HBS Show, The Wizard of Hawes. When Dean Clark takes HBS public, savvy students become overnight billionaires. But the good times don’t roll for long... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
new part of the country where opportunity and access were more open. Sometimes that path involved significant education—in essence, building social mobility through professional credentials. Sometimes the path involved entrepreneurship.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library
offered real opportunity for women and this seemed like a good opening for them," she asserted. (5) The program began in the waning years of the Depression, and Stedman understood the value of professional training for women as "an... View Details
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
Gabriela Ramos, a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, was honored with the annual Harvard Club of Mexico Award, which recognizes a member’s professional and personal career and contributions to Mexico and the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
well as the breadth and depth of talent at HBS. Joshua Mbanusi’s Road to HBS Joshua Mbanusi grew up the youngest of five children raised by a single mother and his earliest days shaped his career decisions and professional passions. “To... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
Hekman, 2016). A few CEOs have initiated firm-wide discussions of race, such as Tim Ryan (PWC), Michael Roth (Interpublic Group), Bernard Tyson (Kaiser Permanente), and Randall Stephenson (AT&T) (see Johnson, 2017, for other examples). Yet, among young black View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time horizons of many successful... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
programs. “Those funds,” says Cox’s Camargo, “are drying up.” The Chinese market is evolving quickly in the face of sun-setting subsidies. Shen, for example, is using technology developed by a German firm he acquired to produce two basic... View Details