Filter Results:
(909)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(909)
- News (214)
- Research (541)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (195)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(909)
- News (214)
- Research (541)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (195)
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
are not so different from organizational teams in other fields of life, including business. And watching the career moves of football stars may shed light on how you, too, can plan your next step. That's the message of new research by HBS... View Details
- Web
Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
investing in smaller businesses. Educational Objectives The course focuses on how to manage smaller businesses with an emphasis on the financial aspects of buying and growing these businesses. The cases are designed to give students practical knowledge that will be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
School over the course of 2004. I am pleased to share our plans and our progress to date. Let me begin by reporting that the Global Leadership Forum Committee, with direction from its new chairman, Jean-Marc Daillance (MBA 1984), is... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
much one can, or should, plan out a career, and they shared concerns about the challenges they would face. Students took advantage of sessions designed to help them navigate specific sectors and to introduce them to lifelong career... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
recruiting women, and lobbying for updating the School's literature "to reflect the fact that MBAs are not all men." By the 1980s women were a fully integrated part of the School, and the pages of the Bulletin reflected this new era. As... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
philanthropy is not only good social policy but also good business. Do you agree that while 25 years ago most companies dismissed social enterprise as irrelevant to their mandate, many now view it as integral to their operations? Schell:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
the past decade, social enterprise has become an integral part of HBS and central to its mission of developing leaders who make a difference in the world,” he said. “This award reinforces that centrality by recognizing the vital... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Kanter, 2009; Porter & Kramer, 2011). Particularly striking is the marked growth of social enterprises, which adopt a social mission as their principal objective but sustain themselves through commercial activities (Battilana and Lee, 2014; Battilana, 2015). This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Publication:NBER Innovation Policy & the Economy (MIT Press) 10 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern09-1 Working PapersInternational Financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
more specialists are needed to stay up to date with functional best practices. The problem that this influx of specialists creates, Cespedes says, is that fewer senior executives are responsible for integrating activities across the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
commoditization continue to drive shifts in the value chain. The case examines the commoditization cycle and contrasts integrated solutions such as the iPod-iTunes software-iTunes Music Store with emerging competition from other MP3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
small, with everybody around you. That's a hell of a lot more important than some finite strategy." Asked about how he assesses people, Welch replied that he insists on integrity and then asks four "E" questions: "Do they have the Energy... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
of industry such as Andrew Carnegie. "They were interesting stories of integrity that stayed with me," he says. After graduating, Appling spent several years at McKinsey & Company, then took a job at Seimens. In 2006, he began at Bright... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
an invitation to join the HBS faculty. He taught the School's first agribusiness course, which from the outset, Goldberg recalls, was intended to take "an integrated approach to studying all aspects of this complex sector of the world... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
Their Souls Kroll had been formulating a plan for KRBA as early as 2008; in his mind, Moody's, Fitch, and S&P sold their souls to win business in the short run. KRBA would, says Becker, "value View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
this much talked-about MBA event, because it views the contest as an in-depth learning experience. "We designed the contest to integrate many aspects of what we've learned in business school - writing a business View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
services. Health plans will eliminate their restrictive networks, allowing members to choose in a competitive (and regional or even national) marketplace the providers that offer the best value for their condition. View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.” While these plans aim to formalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Professor of Management Practice Robert Eccles has spent his academic career burrowing deeply into the arcane subject of corporate reporting—not the hottest of business topics. At least not until now. With the publication of One Report: View Details
- Person Page
Media
Media
This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details