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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Above: photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images On a late summer day in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a large carpeted room with a colorful cloth tacked over a dropped fiberboard ceiling, Bob Vaccaro (MBA 1970), short white hair, eyes crinkled... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
Citing corporate scandals of the past ten years, Andrew MacLennan said that " in the last 10 years there has been a growing recognition of the need to balance great ideas with concern for execution " Debra Farquharson commented that this has been accompanied... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
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IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI - Course Catalog
landscape of the tech sector. Nearly every category incumbent across B2B and B2C was disrupted by Internet-first startups that dominate today’s “most valuable companies” list. Will history repeat itself as we enter the age of AI? Will a... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
performance test scores. By June that number had jumped to 53 percent. “In nine months, we can effectively close the gap between poor and average performance on pre-K tests,” says Dias Griffin, “and we can do it for $6,000 per child,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
Professors Paul Healy, Amy Hutton, and Krishna Palepu; Professor Jay Lorsch's perspectives on “Why Did Enron's Board Fail in its Governance Function?”; and “What Role Did Flaws in Organizational Systems and Values Play in Enron's... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
million to the School in his name. With characteristic humility and honoring a process set by his predecessor, Dean Jay Light, Nohria stressed the importance of allocating these funds to advance the future... View Details
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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
giveaway, whether tucked into products at the factory by wholesalers or inserted into packaged goods by retailers. Traveling salesmen had the opportunity to distribute trade cards to individual customers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
earlier, Dean Jay Light had presented five HBS graduates with the Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. Now they were being asked, metaphorically speaking, to pull on their basketball jerseys, tie up their sneakers, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
says about him and our present-day consumer society, to a story about the rise of the Negro middle class in the South in the 1960s, to a fascinating obituary of Jay Gould, the nineteenth-century speculator, to a wonderful piece on cell... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
311-015 A faith-based organization from Taiwan has made considerable inroads in being able to operate effectively in mainland China. Is further expansion too risky? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311015-PDF-ENG Board Leadership at Entergy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
trends in the market, the case prompts students to examine the future adoption of drug-eluting stents as well as to consider the potential marketing actions to be taken by Medtronic for ENDEAVOR—a newly approved stent that will hit the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
new electives - Negotiating Complex Deals and Disputes: Real Estate, Sports, Public-Private Partnerships, and Litigation, taught by newly promoted Professor of Management Michael A. Wheeler, and Dealmaking: Financial and International... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
in a dark, gritty trilogy, a serial killer challenges the police to solve several cold-case mutilation murders while also investigating a newly dismembered victim. Entrepreneurial Reflections: One Entrepreneur’s Personal Moments That Will Expand and Change the Way You... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Personal Moments That Will Expand and Change the Way You Think by Jay Rodgers (OPM 19, 1993) (Clovercroft Publishing) After decades of success as an entrepreneur building multimillion-dollar companies and... View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Today [advertisements] are issued by the manufacturers of a particular article or special kind of articles . . . [that] may be obtained ‘anywhere,’ and the only request... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
through for him at a scary moment.” — Andy O’Brien, HBS Chief of Operations. (O’Brien, assisted by others, administered life-saving CPR to Howard Stevenson during a heart attack in front of Baker Library, January 2006.) “I asked Howard to... View Details
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Mike Maples Jr.
HBS, Maples was deeply influenced by a course called “The Coming of Managerial Capitalism” taught by renowned business historian Thomas K. McCraw. In that class, Professor McCraw asked his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
a 2016 completion date. That project broke ground in April, just four months after the doors opened on Tata Hall [2], its neighbor to the east. To the north, along a sidewalk bordered by green-draped construction fencing, Baker Hall is... View Details