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- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
Silicon Valley. Homer joined the thredUP team after HBS, but he worked closely with Reinhart, a sectionmate, during their RC year. The trust built that year was key to thredUP’s success, said Homer. “One of the things that’s really hard when you’re building a new View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
featuring Asian business leaders. Westerners entering the Asian marketplace also need to know something about business relationships based on what the Chinese call guanxi, or... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, which focuses its teaching, research, and collaborative efforts on nonprofit organizations, other private social-purpose enterprises, and the role of business leadership in the social sector. In... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- News
Advice and Credibility Go Hand-in-Hand for Managers
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to make good relationships alongside great deals, earn respect while earning multi-million dollar returns, and maintain character even when surrounded by an industry full of characters. Let’s Be Frank began in the final years of Frank... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
business expertise," he notes. "When China opened, we were at the right place and right time to take advantage of that opportunity." Now that Hong Kong is part of China, the relationship between the two is... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation studied by all postwar MBAs. In... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
Diego, followed by managing king crab and salmon fishing in Washington State and Alaska. “I was in Dutch Harbor, navigating the logistics of catching and freezing and making deals with Japanese customers,” he remembers. “I seemed to find my way in the View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Spangler Center Groundbreaking
President Neil L. Rudenstine were among those on hand to officially launch construction of the Business School's new campus center. Due to the brisk weather, speakers' remarks were brief, but poignant. Dean Clark conveyed the School's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Princeton University Press) Max Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, and his coauthor examine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on field research and case studies,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
business I've ever operated," says Whiteside, surveying a herd of Aberdeen Angus and Red Devon cattle from the cab of a 1992 Ford pickup with an odometer topping 143,000 miles. "For one thing, it involves nature, which you can't control.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
leaders each year who will be transformed, form strong relationships with one another, and make a positive difference in their own way. We want to reach all the exceptional leaders we can, and let them know how Harvard View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
remarks by praising the Hong Kong Club's efforts in organizing the "hugely successful" Global Alumni Conference last April, noting that it had "set a new standard" for HBS alumni gatherings. Then mentioning the extraordinary changes that are occurring in the Asian... View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
relationships with the community. These investments can be modest. Just providing safe drinking water can lead to greater productivity and more profit, one of many instances where philanthropy makes good View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold. Friedman, who is coeditor of the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
profession, your relationship with students, your home life? Christensen: Boy, it has had a huge impact on those two parts of my life. So, for my students, actually, most of them don't hire the Harvard View Details