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Harvard Business School
union was. It became the model for us setting up our student union." 9 Willis was the first African American graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia in 1962. He became the first African American head of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
but was persuaded instead to enter a new doctoral program offered by HBS and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As he tells it, he walked into his first day of class in September 1966 virtually “clueless” about HBS — a condition he quickly... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma contributed to strengthening the characterization of film as art in France. The note provides background information on the magazine's history, on the French film industry, and on French film magazines.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
everything. I would get in at 6 a.m. to clean the office and make coffee, and then just do whatever needed to be done in order to move the ball forward, from sales and marketing to finance and accounting (top of my mind during the first... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
business and specifically, the individuals who shaped it. An appreciation for the history of a field and its great masters is at the core of most liberal arts programs. We thought, why should the study of business be different? Shouldn't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
pretty funny. It was pretty funny. Katherine Randolph, 1993, Section H. My cold call story was being cold called by Michael Porter, the day that we did the Five Forces. Now as backstory, I got into Harvard Business School as the total diversity admit after working in... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
leaders will report new lessons on the art of building trust during a time when it looks remarkably difficult. Sandra J. Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice in the General Management Unit. Marco Tabellini:... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
drawn from across participating Harvard schools. Participate in several optional field trips on selected weekends or evenings across the semester; planned destinations include the Arnold Arboretum, the Harvard Art Museum, the Harvard... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
the past fifteen years of the contest, it's extraordinary." The Art Of The Pivot A few common experiences filter to the surface in conversations with past contest participants, whether their venture sells crème brûlée or online video... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
realm. The idea is this: There is a market logic, which has rational economic calculations, and an artistic logic where one is doing something for self-expression. So how do you blend those two worlds? Noma does it by charging a high... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
performance, and not performers. Performance may be based on factors besides the talent and motivation of the individual in question, such as job or market conditions. A person may perform well in some aspects of the job but not in... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied to HBS. After cutting her teeth with McKinsey on a... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
performance, and not performers. Performance may be based on factors besides the talent and motivation of the individual in question, such as job or market conditions. A person may perform well in some aspects of the job but not in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
marketing of pottery, I could go back to the few 18th-century newspapers in Britain; when I am chasing Abraham Lincoln down for the book I am currently writing, I can gather rich information from newspapers of his era. So the Times... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
like Cisco, Microsoft, and Airbnb to scale their impact. Since its programs are driven by local needs across 40 geographies, they run the gamut, from agriculture and financial inclusion to food security, market development, policy, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While his work—first as an international View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
systems, arts groups — typically have access to other resources.” The Bridgespan Group is experiencing the effects of the explosive growth in the nonprofit world. “There is tremendous demand for our services based on the dramatic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, but was denied a transfer to the university’s all-white College of Arts & Sciences when he wanted to change his major to chemistry. His persistence won out, however, and... View Details