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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood says by phone from her office in Grand Haven, Michigan, where she serves as vice chairman of JSJ Corporation, a family-owned entity comprising six manufacturing companies. "I had come right out of college, and many of the men had business experience." Often,... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
In a break from tradition, the Civic Commitment Award , usually given to an alumnus, was presented to HBS professor emeritus James L. Heskett for his role in creating the Summer Venture Management Program... View Details
- Web
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
Anti-Racism Task Force: [It] has resulted in the racial equity plan. And we have formed the Racial Equity Advisory Board under the leadership of Professor Jim Cash in whose honor we named Cash House on the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
Anne Beitel, MBA 1993. I was not prepared for a case and the professor did a little kind of opening set of statements about it and then she turned to me and said, “And in a few minutes, Anne, I’d like you to get us started,” and I said,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
find out what the facts really are. You have to separate rock solid truth from the surrounding haze of assumption. That is what Jim Burke (MBA ’49), then-CEO of Johnson & Johnson, succeeded in doing when boxes of Tylenol products were... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
on employee and community well-being in fact perform better than those that don't? "There is some evidence to suggest the affirmative," says Thomas. "The service profit chain model, formulated by HBS professors View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Lauren Love (MBA '95) and Rena Clark (MBA '90). Harvard University professor Cornel West, author Les Brown, and David Steward, CEO of St. Louis based Worldwide Technologies, were featured speakers. A new element of this year's conference... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coauthored by Professor Tom Eisenmann and researcher Lisa Mazzanti, is under discussion by first-year students in The Entrepreneurial Manager. Wallace has the opportunity to offer a firsthand perspective and listen as her decision points... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Thinking and Acting Like an Owner by Robert Steven Kaplan (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Kaplan explains that leadership is accessible to all of us, and it starts with an ownership mind-set. Acting like a leader is a function... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
its wealth; what will save us now is technology and innovation,” added Wolfensohn, chairman of Wolfensohn & Company and former president of the World Bank. Creative Capitalist: In his conversation with HBS professor emeritus James Cash,... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
Internet pioneers looked at everything from Wi-Fi "hot spots" to the future of broadband at a recent telecommunications conference at Harvard Business School. The issues were debated at the Bandwidth Explosion colloquium held April 23-25. View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
information and inspiration for me. Talking with professors like George Serafeim, Mike Toffel and Jim Matheson excites and inspires me because they've seen this space evolve and have a good perspective that... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Preface by Augustus White III, M.D. (AMP 94, 1984) Harvard University Press Growing up in Jim Crow–era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
company with his brother Jim and cousin Jonathan. Loews, once merely a movie theater company, was transformed by Tisch’s father and uncle, who parlayed the purchase of a single New Jersey hotel into what is now one of the largest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
is a thriller: Pakistan, India and the Bomb: Spy Versus Counterspy. At the center of the book is Asaf Ali Khan, a Pakistani university professor pushed by his uncle to spy on India’s secret nuclear weapons development. THE WINEMAKER:... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
foundations deliver breakthrough results, has been informed and energized by the groundbreaking thinking of the School’s social enterprise faculty. It is easy to forget today, but the Social Enterprise Initiative was a bold and risky move in 1993, when View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
demonstrate the solidity of France’s business ecosystem and the extraordinary opportunity of being an entrepreneur there. A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the World’s Scriptures by Only One Man (i.e., Jim Clawson, DBA... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
closely with Professor Porter on his first case studies of health care organization and partnered on work with Jim Yong Kim launching the field of "delivery science." He is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work by Scott D. Anthony (MBA ’01), Mark W. Johnson (MBA ’96), Joseph V. Sinfield, and Elizabeth J. Altman (HBS Press) Building on HBS professor Clayton Christensen’s The... View Details
Keywords: Management