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01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA

year, Taylor hasn’t succeeded in using his military service to outflank his opponent. Edwards is a hawk on military matters, voting for the first Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq. Local veterans praise his efforts to safeguard their... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

go-to-market execution. The course did an excellent job of blending theory with practical applications, featuring case studies from real startup founders and marketing leaders." Chudhary Kashif Grow your organization’s new product or View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

have machine guns. But to our generation, the dream was to have access to professional printing equipment.” In the fall of 1977, Maj attended a meeting of the growing student opposition. To this point, Maj had been careful. Although he... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

Similarly, you might think about applying knowledge from one area to another. For example, what could you learn from the service at Disney World to improve a retail bank’s operations? Second, ask questions and learn to be comfortable with... View Details

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

(and when proper oversight makes sure the "rules" are followed), cities can gain a competitive edge since businesses and citizens can benefit from services without their city having to put up the investment capital. The Carlsbad... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

01 Sep 2011
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Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit

Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent scholarship compares the rise of... View Details

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19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

state initiative from above, civil society mobilized from below, using the judiciary to hold the state legally responsible for policy implementation. Reforms exposed acute gaps in service delivery, propelling new civic demands for state... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

anecdotes to provide an inspirational guide on how to overcome the challenges that we face and get ahead on our personal and professional goals. After that, I am catching up on several books on important narratives in the technology... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

of Research, I was on the receiving end of many such missives. He often rewarded service to the School with gifts; at the end of my time in the Research assignment, for example, he gave me a ship’s bell clock and barometer. At Christmas,... View Details

Keywords: Dean

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

based at HBS, Christensen's influence and legacy extend well beyond the banks of the Charles and transcend the study of business administration. When he received the School's Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Christensen was honored... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

presented in the context of fine art. They were works, The New York Times explained, “of a high standard of artistic merit, judged by professional photographic standards, as well as a respectable level of proved commercial value.” 23 The... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Your Own Medicine

fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first clients was launching a drug... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

major HBS report to Harvard's Board of Overseers outlining the School's plan to "enlarge its activities so as to be of still more service to the country" by expanding instruction in public aspects of business. Articles during World War II... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

delivery systems take advantage of new approaches for interacting with patients. Historically, telemedicine has been seen by many health care systems as a source of competition; my hope is that more systems will start to think about telemedicine as a View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

entrepreneurship flourish in many sectors, expanding beyond just the software, high-tech type of startup, into financial services and the future of blockchain, for example. We want to support people going into many different spaces during... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

the elements of our Credo focused on creating a community unified in its mission to improve quality of life.” The release goes on to note that Edwards has partnered with firms that have expertise in using capital to benefit underserved... View Details

08 Dec 2015
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Harvard’s Alumni Impact

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24 May 2012
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HBS Alum Joins University Governing Board