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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
glory days, when it employed about a quarter of the US workforce. The case for special treatment That said, there are some compelling reasons the government should give manufacturing special treatment: Lowering the trade deficit. It may be true that we View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
series. —Mike Graffeo (MBA 2006) This is not a plant, but The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter. It explains how and why our system rewards partisanship over outcomes and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
open-minded about what I could do," says Fung. "He was a visionary." So William took on the challenge and went to work. Six months later, he presented a plan to professionalize Li & Fung's management by severing ties between the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
conference hosts in Germany, Heiner Thorborg (12th ISMP) and Christoph-Matthias Brand (MBA '94). Not only do the conference sessions offer extraordinary value to today's businessperson, but the opportunity to see Berlin thriving at the... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
Kiddles founder and CEO Andrea Kimmel (MBA 2003) presents this case study query to HBS alumni and faculty: “The team has an aggressive growth timeline, but financing that growth is a challenge. (Center one, a ground-up build, cost a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
of value investing? Jay Lorsch: Getting Boards Up to Speed Under the present system of corporate boards, independent part-time directors are not sufficiently familiar with the business — they have to be... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
realized the value of listening as applied to business. You call one of your habits "sharpening the saw," or taking the time to reflect and renew the self. How do you convince Type-A people to do that? With great difficulty. The Western... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Bartlett and Ghoshal presented in their earlier work have become realities for today's global business firm. As deregulation, privatization, and information technology are transforming competition, the transnational model continues to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Fall Reunions
today. In mentioning the School's Leadership and Values Initiative, Clark noted, “The world rightly holds us to a higher standard. And so we must have great aspirations.” With more than thirty faculty View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group
RATAN TATA: With HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and Harvard President Drew Faust, presenting the School with a historic, forward-looking gift. Related Links News Release Entrepreneurs in Residence Global CEO Program for China Ratan Tata (AMP 71,... View Details
Keywords: Tata Hall
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
New Career Tools for Alumni
Ready for your next career move? Present your experience and qualifications to prospective employers through the Alumni Career Hub’s Résumé Database. Designed to facilitate the hiring process, the database allows recruiters to identify... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
about a blind student who photographed cracks in the sidewalk that impeded her progress, “became a pivotal metaphor that helped me define my calling in the world,” says Deifell. Since graduation, he has published a book and presented a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Alumni Books Boeing Metamorphosis: Launching the 737 and 747, 1965–1969 by John Fredrickson and John Andrew (MBA 1959) Schiffer Military History Welcome to the world of corporate decision-making, workplace gambles, and myriad human interactions. Boeing Metamorphosis... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
maybe even required by nonprofits for their board members. Both were smashing successes. These challenging programs — along with faculty presentations at the reunions and the annual Global Alumni Conferences — offer us a key opportunity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Alumni Books The Saudi Kingdom by Ali Al Shihabi (MBA 1985) (Markus Wiener Publishers) Al Shihabi presents an analysis of Saudi Arabia’s political stability in light of mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Courtesy Pentagram Graphic designers have created some of the world’s best-known logos, from Coke to Mercedes to McDonald’s. Yet their role in establishing a company’s identity is not always understood or valued by senior management. In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the “new normal,” part of daily life. The North-South... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
and diverse business issues,” he says. Wahl, an investor based in Oslo, Norway, was cofounder and partner of the private equity firm IK Investment Partners Ltd. from 1989 to 2009. Presently he runs Stromstangen AS, a privately owned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
Shady dealings at the negotiating table may work in the short term, but in the end, you’ll undermine trust and tarnish your reputation, warns HBS professor Michael A. Wheeler in the March issue of Negotiation, a newsletter from HBS Publishing. “It’s important to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
underlying question throughout much of the debate centered on whether the company's downfall resulted from a failure of values or of systems — both inside Enron and in the capital market institutions — with convincing evidence View Details