Corporate Culture Significance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey

“I’d like to see a number of our major corporations pick one African school of business, fully endow it, and help make it really good,” America says. “Upgrading management quality in the Third World will increase efficiency, creativity,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets

says. Once at law school, Jones immediately “missed talking about corporate strategy and hearing lectures by business leaders. When someone suggested applying to business school, I said, ‘That’s an option?’ So, in my first year of law... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference

imperative. IBM’s “new collar” program is one example on a large corporate scale; it creates points of entry for people who lack traditional credentials. The pool of people in this category is vast: Any job posting that requires... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

Leadership Courage: Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice By Kirk Kirlin (MBA 1979) Authors Place Press In a time when timidity and disquiet seem epidemic in both American and American Church culture, author Kirk Kirlin offers nine... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2022
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A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

better as Dean.” Light viewed globalization as a significant opportunity for the School and opened a research center in India and the Harvard Center Shanghai. New courses brought MBA students to countries in Asia, Africa, and South... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

According to the West Club's trip organizers, Francis Tapon (HBS '97) and Nadine Weil (HBS '97), students benefited enormously from the experience. "Many participants told us they learned a lot, made a number of significant contacts, and... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

unheard of to a time when women shape decision-making at the highest corporate levels. With the arrival of women students in the 1950s, when the School partnered with the Radcliffe Management Training Program, Associate Professor... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

environment, be that infrastructure, bureaucracy, or lack of established benchmarks in India’s corporate environment.” Less regulation clearly has unleashed market potential. Bharti, for example, has aggressively pursued the estimated 250... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery

seven months after McKenna’s arrival. It differs from its predecessor in one significant way. It’s all out there, with links to complete findings (and warnings to the reader, due to the disturbing details). Once the survivor had given her... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

corporations before striking out on their own, the authors wondered why the billionaires’ former employers couldn’t hang on to them and why most big companies are unable to create as much new value as the billionaires. The key is what the... View Details

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

Africa for five years, teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and serving on the investment committee of a private equity fund. It was also during this time that she acquired the domain name Africa.com, without... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'

American economic system.” Castaldo's own path to the industry began in brand management for Clairol; in 1980, he was recruited by Burger King Corporation and left five years later as vice president of advertising. Explaining the leap... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

Dreyfoos’s collection, encompass the years from 1950 to 2013 and reflect 60 countries. Those in the early decades have a historical aura, and many others may soon join that group as cultures evolve and the environment eliminates or... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer experience, which began in the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

its mayor is committed to making it a model of environmental urban action on many fronts. Cities, broadly defined, are thought to have originally formed as protective, secure locations that could enable trade and the distinctive human need for social and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

twitch in a series of transactions by corporations and the public that can be qualified only as speculation. Men talk of squeezing the water out of securities but seem never to conceive of getting rid of the wind in their own prosperity... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

offers huge economies of scale," notes Warren McFarlan, coauthor of the fifth edition of Corporate Information Systems Management: The Issues Facing Senior Executives. These economies have greatly encouraged the consolidations that are... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

junior year represented a significant change in my life, because for the first time in 10 years I was not involved in football practices,” he recalls. Other immediate changes included joining the Kansas State a cappella choir (“music had... View Details