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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Equity Finance class, an advanced elective course offered in the Harvard Business School MBA elective curriculum. The structure of the book follows the timeline of a typical investment. Starting with deal... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
other cities about HCZ’s approach, he stresses the importance of the long view. “Ending poverty is not something you’re going to see done within an election cycle,” he says. “It’s a lot of hard work that has to be carried out by committed... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
inability of democratically elected governments to deal with some of capitalism’s fallout, particularly inequality and migration as its consequence. They see their cities, as in France, becoming battlegrounds. The very people they need... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective Venture Capital and Private... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
getting swept up in trends. "I think an entrepreneur should beware of so-called hot fields," says Bhide, who coteaches the MBA elective Entrepreneurial Management. "The Internet feeding frenzy, for example, resembles the California gold... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
an undertaking of President Maithripala Sirisena, who came to power in a shocking 2015 election when the 10-year incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa, called an early election at the urging of an astrologer who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
teaches the popular MBA elective Founders’ Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. What’s a common instance of ill-advised behavior by entrepreneurs? Splitting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again. Democracy and Its View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
MOON: “Differentiation is not a formula. Rather, it’s a way of thinking.” Professor Youngme Moon, who teaches one of HBS’s most popular electives (Consumer Marketing), has recently published her first book. In Different: Escaping the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Two years later at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft’s Bill Gates announced his own commitment to social change through “creative capitalism.” “With these three events, the movement moved into the mainstream,” she said. Mainstream hit the big... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
The Zanzibar portion of the trip allowed us to slow our pace and take advantage of the seaside resort as well as a series of optional side trips. Given the legendary lure of Zanzibar as one of the Spice Islands, many of us elected to take... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Curriculum that focus our students’ attention on the role that business can, and perhaps should, play in addressing societal challenges. Some of this material is already in the MBA Program—and in the Elective Curriculum and Executive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
position today,” says HBS professor Forest Reinhardt, who heads the Business, Government, and International Economy unit. An expert on the environment who began teaching at HBS in 1992, Reinhardt now teaches the elective Energy, a course... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
6/'48) is the "Pioneer Class Secretary"; a Society of Class Secretaries proposed. Autumn 1950 Fourteen MBA classes and seven AMP groups have elected "permanent class secretaries." February 1958 New policy announced: each class will have... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
company; evaluate the performance of senior managers; set executive compensation; approve key strategic and financial decisions; nominate candidates for shareholders to elect as directors; and ensure the company’s integrity,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Administration. Serafeim teaches Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems, one of several electives in the MBA Program that focus on environmental and social challenges. Given the surge of student interest in the topic, Serafeim,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
insurance contracts. An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a past president of the American Finance Association, Merton is a leading figure in the School's Global Financial Systems Project and has taught extensively in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
from corporations and boardrooms to national magazines to a project to elect a woman President of the United States. Upon graduation, Fudge went to work for General Mills and advanced from marketing assistant to marketing director in six... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
distractions, the time groups spend in discussion is enhanced. Overall, technology seems to have delivered a vastly streamlined approach to class preparation. It’s time to head back to Aldrich for Assistant Professor Alan MacCormack’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the firm, which is the subject of his popular MBA elective Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise.... View Details