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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials The Chase Sapphire Reserve card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016. But what would be JP Morgan's next act be? State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders Index funds are the major... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
Collaboration that Anticipates New Business Needs The inaugural MS/MBA cohort of students arrived at Harvard in early August. 6 Joint degree programs offered between HBS and other Harvard schools In the spring of 2018, faculty from HBS,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
When business and career psychologist James Waldroop counsels young executives who are starting assignments in a new company, he urges them to act like anthropologists. “For the first six months on the job, your assignment is to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
specific new product- or service-development project that would be their focus for the next 12 weeks. As these students are experiencing firsthand, it’s one thing to hypothesize about product development in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
solution was the IBM System/360, one of the great new product introductions in business history. When IBM began to decline in the late 1980s, a decade and a half after Tom Jr. had left the company, many... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
productively in the United States. A previous repatriation tax holiday in 2004 induced the return of more than $300 billion to this country, and commentators across the political spectrum, including Andy Stern, formerly of the Service... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- Profile
Colt Stander
thinking, design and business have much in common. “To create a good product, you have to know all the influences behind manufacturing the product and consumer behavior. I became interested in business because I knew that to create the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
the subprime lenders—willing to take the risk on riskier borrowers, for a price. Thus far the tale testifies to America's entrepreneurial spirit. New mortgage banks specializing in subprime loans sprang up. Their panoply of View Details
- Web
Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
The resulting ability to retain or outsource various subsets of production stages within firm and country boundaries fueled the fragmentation of production and the emergence of global value chains. A key... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
learning techniques to draw conclusions that weren’t possible with traditional methods, and creating new machine learning approaches and algorithms. They have published more than 70 cases that address AI uses such as how to improve... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
always seeking new demand for creative projects to keep up with the supply of community members eager to take up challenges. "We're displacing a way of doing business in a big organization for the last 70 years," said DeJulio, who was a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Paul Lenehan
internship, as a Microsoft product manager in its online services division, will be a prelude to what he'd like to do upon graduation. "Something in tech," Paul says, "with a product... View Details
- Profile
Andrea Nadosy
customer’s point of view, from the first time they see it through the actual purchase. As aconsequence, Andrea made a number of key business changes, including an expandedrange of products and a new company... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Innovation? Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Would you be suspicious of employees who drew a curtain around themselves? What if you knew the curtain was specifically to block your prying managerial eyes? Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
frameworks. Early sessions will introduce models about the key jobs of the general manager, who must integrate the marketing, product development, operations, strategic planning, financial, and human dimensions of the enterprise. We will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
feel like a million dollars, because I had successfully defended my position in front of 70 people and a tough professor. I was in love with marketing from then on, but Chip Bupp, my operations and production management professor, showed... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
The old-fashioned assumption of the environmental movement was that business and industry were the problem. World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is bullish that they can be part of the solution. A new breed of... View Details
Anthony Soohoo
he has helped enterprises embrace technology and thrive against both incumbents and new disruptive competitors. Anthony was most recently an Executive Vice President at Walmart where he was responsible for the multi-billion dollar home... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry together in World War II, where he was responsible for the... View Details