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01 Jun 2011
News

The House that Howard Built

Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to start View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

special episode of the HBS podcast Staff Stories. Recorded in our remote studio on December 15, 2020. Published January 6, 2021 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email Play Hi, my name is Srikant Datar and I have just started as Dean of the Harvard... View Details

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

fierce business competition, your bargaining endowment can spell the difference between closing the deal and being shut out. A healthy bargaining endowment explains how Darren Rovell won a job on national television while other journalism... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

05 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

how this will impact the price; what I can do is use this information to generate more and more commissions from my best clients,” Di Maggio explains. “And that’s what we see in the data: a quid pro quo between the broker’s best... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

number of developments during the School's history that have helped create and stimulate a climate favorable to entrepreneurship at Soldiers Field. The Business School's first Dean, Edwin F. Gay, while a student of economic history in... View Details

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

For many multinational firms doing business in unfamiliar countries, it made sense to create joint ventures with local firms. After all, that local knowledge of customs, suppliers, and markets could save the newcomer months—maybe even... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

(MBA 1997) River Grove Books Family offices are business entities built to primarily support a family’s wealth. Several trillions of dollars of wealth are concentrated in a small number of these offices globally. But often, family offices... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

illegal, gaming of society’s rules that led to Enron’s collapse. The answer points to three persis-tent tasks of corporate governance: the avoidance of perverse incentives for executives, the strengthening of board oversight, and the reinforcement of ethical discipline... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2004
News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

is energetic and vigorous. His gaze is intense, and the legendary steel-trap mind is still in evidence. “My HBS experience was a major event in my life,” he eagerly volunteers, gripping his visitor’s hand. “It opened my eyes to the role of View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

Some companies have begun relying more on computer-administered tests than human interviewers to find the best applicants. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Danielle Li and colleagues suggests that in this case,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

Editor's note: Now 10 years old, Facebook's growth is starting to slow. That's one reason it purchased What'sApp last month in a jaw-dropping deal valued at $19 billion. What might the next decade be like? Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

30 Apr 2019
News

Leading Schools That Change Lives

classmates were terrific,” recalls Kennealey, who received the 2006 Harvard Business School Student Service Award. “I learned to think more broadly about the world, at HBS, and how to solve problems in any environment.” Despite his newly... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
News

Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

Corporation as project leader of an effort to create a stand-alone word-processing system. Following a brief stint at FasFax Corporation, he arrived at HBS in pursuit of an education that might help him keep ahead of succeeding View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

in student, staff, and faculty lives. It provides opportunities to go deeper. It can help launch your startup. In particular, the Social Enterprise Initiative is the nexus of activity in thinking about how to apply business skills to have... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

increasing the overall profitability of the concession. "I like to fix things," Richardson reflects. "I'm attracted to unstructured environments where I can solve problems and create systems that help businesses operate more efficiently."... View Details

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

world's most elite and demanding professional service firms—The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)—could work together to ensure that they each could truly disconnect from work for a scheduled unit of time each week. This modest experiment View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

16 Dec 2016
News

An Environmental Epiphany

who came to look at Bulgaria as a potential destination for their investments. And we generally felt that we were part of shaping a liberal market economy in a way that very few people have a chance to do. Morrell: You've mentioned that,... View Details

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

How the US’s Inflation Reduction Act has opened new business opportunities across multiple sectors Re: Julia Brady (MBA 1997); Christian Weeks (MBA 2010); Matt Arnold (MBA 1995); Heather March Takle (MBA 2006); Monica Varman (MBA 2016);... View Details

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