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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II. In this turbulent era, he developed a distinctive focus and pedagogy that helped define business as a profession and grew a pioneering Harvard venture into... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
diverse professions in which they operate. Whether you examine law firms, advertising agencies, investment banks, or management consulting firms, the business model and the challenges they must successfully meet to prosper over the long... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
headquarters—a move spurred in part by the CEO’s professed desire to shake up the corporate mindset: Immelt, 61, also wanted a big culture shift. He asked employees to think more like they work for a startup and less like they work for a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
their meaningful work? As long as I’ve got breath and a functioning brain, I can continue my meaningful work—my research and writing—in some way. But the academic profession is unusual in that respect. I wanted to find out what it’s like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation—a new kind of business book that isn’t as much about creating a vision as it is about shaping a context. Over time, it became clear to Hill that Pixar’s leaders didn’t profess... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
"because unlike a Harvard degree, you must be open to being tested on something you profess to know at a moment's notice—long after you've graduated." Feerick believes that facts are delivered most effectively online, but at some point in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
farmer-turned-salesman termed a “mean caling” [sic] in 1810 today is a respectable profession that employs roughly 12 percent of the U.S. workforce. Relying heavily on material from salesmen’s diaries and journal entries, sales ledgers,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
professions — from physicists to cooks — to understand how creative breakthroughs happen,” she notes. “He found that very often the most important creative breakthroughs happen where different perspectives come together, both among... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
the times. HBR has been a voice for the concepts and practices that have created the practice of management - a profession that was in its infancy when the magazine was inaugurated in 1922. This month marks HBR's 75th anniversary, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Focus on You
To sweeten the deal, we have something big to offer in exchange. Beginning this month, HBS is launching a brand-new Alumni website, featuring personalized content delivery (based on your profession and unique interests), customized events... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
innovation that calls for “big teaming”: intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, they tell the story of a “smart city”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
the compensation component. While the 3-30-300 rule of thumb is a generalization and a simplification, the order of magnitude is appropriate and useful. Some professions pay much more. When higher salaries are considered, the impact of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
system, which they have agreed to do — but the time frame remains unclear. For his part, Jerry Jasinowski (AMP 97, 1985), president and CEO of the National Associ-ation of Manufacturers (NAM), professes an unshaken faith in the ability of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
to work. What’s unusual about flows that come out of war settings is the refugees are mostly there to get away from a war, not to find a job. KF: In our survey, we asked about people’s professions in Syria. The number one was housewife.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
to talk about issues of corporate governance and the ethics of leadership. They can’ t believe that what they consider an honorable profession is being publicly judged by the misdeeds of a few people. Mark Twain once said words to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter Arkle Venture capitalist. Spoken aloud, those two words have a ring of authority that seems to lift the profession above the realm of mere mortals. Headlines can confirm that otherworldly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time professional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press), HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana builds a case for the systemic argument. He also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
advice, insight, and perspective, and facilitating a new understanding of things." That definition neatly sums up a profession that's been shaped and populated by HBS alumni since the emerging notion of strategy in the 1960s sparked the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Charles and taking in the sights.” Happy accident: “I’m a more quantitative person, and my management consulting experience—which focused on materials and metals—was very analytical, so I wanted a business profession that fit that. But I... View Details