Purpose Of Business Schools - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
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INK: The Bookshelf

is not a general book about public speaking. ...It is a guide for business leaders and, in particular, people on their way up.” —Tim Calkins (MBA 1991), clinical professor of marketing at the Kellogg View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said that the Web has turned the... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?

LA and completed a film program at USC, so I wasn’t even sure business school was a good choice at that point. But in the long term, I envisioned a career that had a foot in both View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Corey, Lombard Remembered

Corey Lombard Photos Courtesy HBS Communications Last spring, the Harvard Business School community lost two of its most revered and distinguished emeriti professors. E.... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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From Das’s Desk

options play out in the fall. In the meantime, we look forward to hosting you back for your next reunion so you can experience some of these changes firsthand. Das Narayandas is Senior Associate Dean, External Relations and Harvard View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Feb 2001
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The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure

The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have taken a leave from their careers to explore personally enriching projects off the beaten track. For some busy executives, spending... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2002
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Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity

Hausmann on the Argentina: the need for confidence in the midst of crisis and tough economic policies. Photo: Thomas J. Fitzsimmons Business success stories. Aramburuzabala of... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off

director of joint degree programs at HBS. It takes full advantage of greater Boston’s position as one of the world’s largest biotech clusters. The joint degree integrates the... View Details

17 Mar 2017
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Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)

Ernst & Young then drew her back to the East Coast. After spending three years in the Real Estate Audit Group at EY, Hawthorne decided to go to business school in order to prepare for her next career step.... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go

held at HBS November 22 and 23 on the topic, “Do Business Schools Generate Globally Relevant Knowledge?” Assembling a panel of experts in various disciplines, faculty members... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Cathy A. Nichols

kidding," Nichols says, "and then I realized he was serious." Although a few such Jurassic-like creatures roamed the School back then, Nichols notes that "women students got through such encounters by doing a lot View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Dec 2005
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Winning Legally

business objectives.” Before joining the HBS faculty in 2000, Bagley was a corporate securities partner in Bingham McCutchen LLP and a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

only to New York but to London, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., where his perfect English and cosmopolitan outlook helped make him a very effective representative of Mitsubishi abroad. The significance of... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

Baker Scholar, James accepted a position as controller at his father's firm, by then a 75-person financial planning company that was called, as a result of a merger, Raymond James Financial (RJF). At the same time, he enrolled in law... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

small, but nearly 80 percent of business school cases taught around the world are developed at Harvard. If we change the way we write and teach cases, we can change View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Analyze This

School by knowing where its alumni magazine is delivered. For the December 2009 issue, we dispatched 20,797 copies to 148 countries (out of 195 worldwide) and territories, from Andorra (2) to Zimbabwe (24).... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Mar 2023
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Family Matters

being a CEO of a multinational corporation. She even dressed the part, going to school in a pantsuit. But the path to the corner office is often an expensive one. Thompson-Woode learned this as a high... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 1997
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Ronald P. Mitchell

deficits," says the genial second-year student. As president of the Student Association (SA), one of Mitchell's primary tasks was to bring concessions - student-run businesses... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

School gave me the ability to have a broad overview that focused not only on the financial dimension of a business but on its many other facets, including management, strategy,... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

financial management system held together by baling wire." Along with bringing the IRS's financial management system into the 21st century, Rossotti reorganized the agency into four units, each responsible for a specific group of... View Details

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