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- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Emeritus, Stanford University 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Gainfully employed: “My first job was at age 7—a paper route that paid $2.45 a week. I always worked: sacking groceries, working at a bottling plant for 75 cents... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
with the University’s chemistry department and the Medical School.” Pisano notes that research at HBS on life sciences–related topics has been going on for more than ten years. He estimates that in the last two years alone, some 110 cases and 25 articles and View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
and I ended up Looping the course. 1985F put brown paper bags over our heads during a Friday-afternoon class. The idea was to mess with the professor, who styled himself a partier and lady’s man. Namecards were removed and bags put over... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
professorial zeal to researching, understanding, and reflecting upon estate and end-of-life planning, writing papers and delivering speeches on these topics. “We can either make our own end-of-life decisions or avoid doing so by... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
vocals, and precision highs. We’re pretty excited about that, and we think our customers will be too. We’ve recently brought our product development process in-house, so instead of sourcing products in Asia, we can take a concept from a blank sheet of View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
action is a major goal? Porter: Most of us are here at Harvard Business School not solely to write papers for the academic literature but also to engage with practice and influence action. Our alumni bring enormous capacity and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
was one line low. And I said, this doesn't look right to me. So I called the boss, who was in the suburbs. And he said, oh my god, thank god you called. He rushed in. We had to redo the entire set of reports, which almost filled the room because View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erling Lorentzen (MBA 1948) was a prominent figure at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and for decades led a number of sustainable development initiatives as chairman of Brazil’s giant pulp and paper producer Aracruz Celulose S.A.;... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases, articles, and papers on Chinese business, as well as his recent book, Can... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas just to kind of jolt people awake. And you might even start off with a joke to bring some levity to the meeting, especially because people are probably used to hearing bad news all day. My favorite joke recently was “why are people... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
and brands. “I admit it’s written in a provocative way, and that’s one reason it gets assigned all the time.” While Levitt’s vision of a world where standardized products rule has not yet been borne out, the article is still read and discussed 25 years later. In a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
seize up, and that the interest rates charged to issuers of short-term commercial paper and corporate bonds would leap upwards, leading to a painful squeeze for all kinds of private-sector borrowers. Not many people foresaw that this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
newspapers on campus: room by room, to vending machines, and to executive programs. Dressed in blue jeans, a chamois shirt, track shoes, and my college jacket, I moved quickly through campus. I cannot tell you how cold Boston got in those predawn hours. For the... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
choose one. There have been so many. I can remember one where Joe Perella was on the phone with the Chairman of International Paper Company. And I'd done the analysis and it started off with me not being available, the first call that Joe... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
(both MBA 1996) proposed the contest as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. “We looked at it as not just a theoretical paper for class but a sustainable plan,” says Wagonfeld, who was then... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors treating the woman. Watson had already ingested millions of oncology papers and volumes of leukemia data from research institutes around the world. Now, the doctors in Tokyo fed Watson the woman’s genetic information, hoping it... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
discomfort persisted, though Keen excelled in his work. A paper he'd written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way
continued, and environmental groups led a global boycott of paper producers that worked with local logging companies. In the late 1990s, negotiations began between the logging companies and the environmental groups; the tentative... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
of working papers and some 106 cases on social sector topics. Faculty in the Social Enterprise Interest Group are also forming ties with related initiatives throughout Harvard University, such as the Hauser Center on Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry