international assignments - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically

creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American... View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

an executive coach, a career that evolved from an assignment working with the head of the Cartoon Network. “Basically, I’m helping other people develop stronger leadership and management skills,” she says. In addition, she and a partner... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

addition, he has held important administrative positions at the School, chairing Exec Ed's Advanced Management Program and its International Senior Managers' Program, as well as the MBA Program's Production and Operations Management unit... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

even if the pay does not increase immediately. Advocate on your own behalf, but also find mentors who will advocate for you. Remember that to whom much is given, much is expected. Always take the time to mentor others. Thank those who have helped you. Be grateful.... View Details

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

for high school followed by a summer in Spain. By her senior year of high school, the family had moved again, this time to Vancouver, Canada. It was the fourteenth school of her youth. That nomadic spirit instilled in Leger an interest in View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers

biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996. Her new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry (Jossey-Bass), analyzes and draws lessons from the factors that made one company — Baxter International — a standout in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

England and had studied for a year at St. Paul's, a prep school in New Hampshire, before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1954. In a system where career advancement could often be hindered by assignments outside Japan, he... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

running on different operating systems). "Our strategy is to use internally the kind of protocols the Internet uses outside the School," Upton notes. "We've built something called an 'intranet' using open protocols: no one company owns... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

agencies focused on development projects and private-sector growth in emerging economies often seen as too risky for most investors. But this new assignment was something else entirely. “I have a phenomenal job and I’m living in a safe... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

terms, but he embraced blogging, which was a radical idea in 2006 because people thought it would destroy our brand.” In other words, the magazine—a carefully thought-out and meticulously produced product—would be compromised by less polished, more off-the-cuff... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

about the relationships you foster within an organization. At the end of the case, the individual had not fostered his internal relationships well (not enough blue lines) and was fired from his job. At the time, I thought this was... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2003
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Globalization Revisited

argued that advances in communications technology were increasingly inspiring consumers around the world to want the same things. Therefore, he declared, international companies should cease to act as “multinationals” that customized... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

Broom, came from halfway around the world. The vice president of human resources for the cosmetics giant EstŽe Lauder International, Inc., she had just completed an assignment consulting on staff issues with the company's senior managers... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

engineering major with a goal of building cars, he saw a future spent designing door handles in some automaker’s basement and switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After graduation, he spent three years in China helping... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

16 May 2017
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Facing the Board

an opportunity for alumni to have a meaningful experience with students and relive a little of the energy of HBS.” With the alumni up to speed, the 156 six-person student groups—who had received the case and assignment questions six days... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures

was terrible.” But he did seem to have something to say. During his summer breaks, Singer interned at Nickelodeon, working in the strategy and legal groups and later following up that experience with a stint at the Disney Channel. “The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

summer intern Alexandra Horvitz (HBS 2021). Titled “Reimagining Fitness: Designing an Anti-Racist Industry,” the online event was hosted by Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011), a fitness enthusiast who is director of recruiting at Netflix and an... View Details

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