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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Last Look
(MBA ’89, PHDBE ’94) for identifying Liza Minnelli as the center of attention during Harvard College’s 1973 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year celebration. As Demer points out, Minnelli, seated in an open car with Baker Library in the... View Details
- Career Coach
Michele Chambliss
leverages her strengths in strategic messaging and attention to detail. She serves as Board President for a non-profit and has led hiring for leadership roles there and at another non-profit. Michele holds a BS Electrical Engineering from... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
relationships and sources of information about what is really going on. As one leader said: "There can be a tendency to say, 'Well, I'll lock myself in the room and I'll come up with a plan.' That is important, but you're not going... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Banks. Amid the excitement, abuses have also appeared, with some online lenders reportedly charging as much as 50 percent in interest on some short-term loans. It’s been enough to attract the attention of regulators, with everyone from... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
Robert Austin, Richard Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Jim Barton barely reacted when the doorbell rang. Immersed in content streaming to a tablet propped up behind his cereal bowl, he waved an empty spoon past one ear, as if pushing away a... View Details
- Profile
Kim Chen
organizational level, to keep up with the rapid pace of change and innovation. The area of flux I am most excited about is the changing definition of business success, one that is increasingly expanding beyond the View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In “UBS and Climate Change — Warming Up to Global Action?” Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest... View Details
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Eshan Tewari | MBA
Eshan Tewari Statistics Dunster 2021 Cohort 2 I've had a chance to work in technology from a host of different angles, spanning from ground level research to rapidly scaling startups to venture capital to journalism. In the process, I've started to build View Details
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
incorporated into the design and delivery of services. The design of financial services in particular has for many years focused on the efficient execution of transactions and strong investment performance, but in my opinion, not enough View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
for young people to start smoking tobacco cigarettes, or even lure ex-smokers back to the habit. This has created a dilemma for health regulators, says Quelch, interviewed before the FDA's action. Do they regulate e-cigarettes in order to decrease the number of new... View Details
- 09 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Veterans Day Reflections
an unconventional background, I did not think I had any real shot of getting in. Discovering my unique perspective Despite all the uncertainty in my mind, I decided to sign up for a campus tour and class visit before interview results... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
companies operate and how government invests in them. And yet, the business world has been slow to catch up to these changes, says Associate Professor Aldo Musacchio, a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
Summing Up Do not read too much into a possible relationship between the development of information technology and the incidence of "upside-down" management. That's the overwhelming message from responses to the column raising... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
us.” One solution in healthcare, says Deffarges, would be to expand Medicare so that people of all ages can enroll through an age-tiered process. “Let’s take what works and offer it to everyone.” Approaching these problems from the bottom... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Chili recipes
with salt and pepper and cook without moving until well-browned on bottom side, about 6 minutes. Transfer meat to a large bowl and combine with remaining un-cooked half of meat and set aside. Return Dutch oven to heat. Add onions and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
media’s impact on the bottom line. You and your colleagues have taken a critical look at the assumption that social media works by attracting followers, which exposes the brand and in turn leads to sales. What’s wrong with that line of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
For several decades, the career path of Alfred L. Cheauré (MBA '71) was fairly straightforward. A first-generation immigrant American from Germany, Cheauré grew up in New Jersey and attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his 27-year... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
The Harvard Business School Classroom Experience: Inside the Case Method | MBA
Read the case in advance, answer the assignment questions, and show up ready to participate. Participation is spread out among all students each week to allow everyone to have a chance to speak equitably over the course of the term. Do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
people with zero net worth, and even negative net worth, can still believe that they are living the American dream, doing “better” than their parents did while keeping up with the Joneses. Second, poorer Americans’ belief in social... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
big moments in the lives of the one hundred families who regularly participate in church activities - baptizing babies, delivering graveside eulogies, and participating in everything that happens in between. A native of metropolitan Washington, D.C., Brooks was brought... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young