Similarity - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2008
News

Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

All manner of publications are on a similar trajectory. And going “all-in online” has peculiar cultural drawbacks. I’ve never worked at a magazine or newspaper where print writers gleefully did stories for their Web site. Why bust your... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

emerged after the booming 1990s and the resulting public uproar that forced Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act were eerily similar to the period leading up to the market crash of 1929. Coming out of that, the president of the New... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

80 percent is done by the faculty?” That would leave 20 percent for skilled nonfaculty practitioners to advance certain teaching objectives, Palepu explains. Garvin cautiously suggests a similar approach, turning to Harvard Medical School... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2005
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Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS

teams are supplementing the traditional study groups which, the School felt, too often consisted of like-minded students with similar life and professional experiences. “We’re taking advantage of our fantastic student body to enrich the... View Details

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

01 Jun 2004
News

Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead

increase its impact on the world by a factor of ten” — and suggested a focus on developing leaders and adding value to nonprofits by working with other business schools to nurture and strengthen similar initiatives. Noting that we live in... View Details

Keywords: SEI; Social Enterprise Initiative; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

addressing these and similar questions, the book also examines the role that multinational corporations play in the outcomes that policymakers care about most: economic growth, jobs, inequality, and tax fairness. The Power of Trust: How... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

a competitive band the following month. I think it's very similar than in Silicon Valley, that people are able to change jobs quickly. That helps spread education and knowledge throughout the entire ecosystem. Dan: The book sort of... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)

Raised in a small town in Ohio, Nancy Hall came to HBS as a partner when her husband entered the MBA Program. When they separated a few years later, she applied to the School “on a lark” and got in. The first day of kindergarten for her daughter, Lara, was Hall’s first... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,... View Details

08 Aug 2018
News

Getting Life Back in Balance

Limestone Coast of South Australia, where he had just been hired as CEO of the Wattle Range Council, a position similar to that of a city manager in the United States. “I felt like it was the first time in my life that I had made a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

INRIX analytics offer similar benefits to corporate customers, Mistele adds, providing greater efficiencies to company fleet operations, commuting time estimates to realtors and home buyers, hourly traffic patterns to retailers and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

findings to Quelch. Comparing notes after the exercise, most found they had reached similar conclusions. As an added bonus, the class also learned what ads Intel ultimately chose - and why - directly from Linda Clark, Intel's director of... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

25 Feb 2013
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Among millions, a blank slate

01 Sep 2011
News

Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit

Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent scholarship compares the rise of... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

insight that mentors can come to you in many stripes and disguises. Looking back, my mentors did not appear on the surface to be similar but turned out to be invaluable. I realize now that it took some time to shed the fantasy that... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Letters to the Editor

up with a look at the many HBS alums who have played similar roles in business schools around the country. For example, after selling my first venture, I launched UC Irvine's program in 1984 and then Pepperdine's program in 1989, where I... View Details

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

01 Dec 2017
News

Turning Point: The Dark Season

optional, but we usually get about 45 players from a 53-man roster. In some ways it’s similar to an HBS case discussion in terms of how it’s structured—I open with a prayer, pose a discussion question, and write responses on the board,... View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)

01 Dec 1997
News

The World's Banker

Carnegie Hall, New York's financially troubled arts mecca that was then on the brink of collapse. A lover of the arts (and an accomplished cello player despite first taking up the instrument in his forties), Wolfensohn then orchestrated View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Faculty Q&A: Price Check

products—such as price and the number of similar products sold at the same time—that we could map to features of new products as a way to predict demand. We also took into account the need to price multiple products in the same category... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2006
News

East to West

basic models,” Paine notes. “At first, the system adopted by Sumida looks comparable to a U.S. model. But when you examine how it’s implemented and the behavioral issues involved, the similarities aren’t so clear.” Ultimately, Paine says... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

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