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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Decide by Dave Ramos (MBA 1989) (Advantage Media Group) The way for an organization to win is to become differentiatingly great at one thing. Every executive team must decide... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
a wheelchair handball player for the Dutch National team and competed at the European Handball Tournament in Croatia. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, offers insight into what it means to be a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
medicine, and without insurance, these procedures are often cost-prohibitive. Are there some unusual AKC competitions for dogs? Dogs that are bred to scent raccoons compete in an event called a “Coon Hunt.”... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
alike. "Now that we all have access to the same information, the emphasis has shifted from collection to analysis," he explains. "And that's a sea change. It allows a small firm like ours... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
absolutely central to the ultimate success of those ventures. As the cost of starting a company has gone down, and so many first-timers and much younger entrepreneurs are starting companies, how do you identify, in a 25-year-old without... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small companies to View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
goodwill and signals to people that we are genuine about what we’re trying to do. We are contemplating a capital campaign that will give the academy the staying power and the ability View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
today will become the traditions of tomorrow, says Nohria. Ultimately, the curriculum innovations set in motion this year aim to educate 21st-century leaders who possess competence (knowledge and skills) and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
legacy evident in her “Osaka-ben” dialect. For centuries, merchants from the city have spoken the regional dialect known for its disarming charms. “It’s soft on purpose because it makes it much easier to win... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Ghana, but I knew that to move forward in my career, I needed to go back to school to acquire more skills." Richardson and Mills both enrolled in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
is facing a crisis of confidence. We all must work to regain the public trust. HBS is committed to educating and developing leaders—as Nitin has described, people of both View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
travel from countries as far-off as Slovakia and Poland. The workers stay in dormitories — homes in town that the Husteads have renovated — for a nominal fee. “Getting and training good people is a core competency for us,” Hustead... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
conditions that firms face; and the increased scale of activities fostered by global participation. The text examines how these phenomena create tensions and tradeoffs for executives concerning which product to offer around the world,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
for the longer term. Are they going to foster the rule of law and give domestic and foreign entrepreneurs more confidence to invest? Are they going to allow private companies... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
beginning to recognize many of the same concerns that other sectors face, such as the effect of work-life balance issues on women and the “double bind”—the tension between the perception of competence and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
which I remember it very, very well about strategic competence and trying to figure out what kind of unique competence we might have, which were essentially the kinds of things... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
themselves and learn to respect non-docs who are competent managers." If management cannot lead the charge in saving the US health care system, from where will the leadership come? What role will... View Details