business schools - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2008
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Whistling Past the Graveyard

by their own doing.” Too bad the rest of us suffer the consequences, and can’t look forward to astronomical compensation when we’re incompetent in our jobs. Business schools are in an interesting position... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

04 Jun 2008
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Whistle While You Work

he makes presentations before corporate and business-school audiences that link music to business (www.jazz-impact.com). “Jazz musicians are entrepreneurs,” Gold says, adding that they are like managers in today’s View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

We have a great group of people who've come through our associate program, all diverse people who’ve gone on to great business schools and become entrepreneurs. We're finding these people. They can find... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Faculty Retirements

interface with the securities markets, he is the coauthor or editor of seven books, including Wall Street and Regulation; Managing Financial Institutions; and Islamic Law and Finance. He has written numerous working papers and articles in journals such as the Harvard... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new... View Details

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

worked.” Paul also shares an anecdote that confirms the community-building potential of CORe. While working at a cyber security company this summer, he met a colleague who kept talking about a “cool Harvard Business View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

Bob DiRomualdo admits that he wasn't much of a reader until he paid a visit to Greenland. The son of a Philadelphia fireman, DiRomualdo took a job with RCA after graduating from high school to earn money for college. Dispatched by the... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

12 Dec 2017
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Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley For Hal Brierley (MBA 1968), Harvard Business School changed the direction of his career. He arrived at Soldiers Field assuming he would... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline

whistles. And, as was the case during a visit to the School last September, the "Oracle of Omaha" doesn't disappoint. From his opening gambit ("Testing, one million, two million," he intoned into the microphone), to his astute overview of... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers

business schools and to Harvard University. "These alums are speaking to us with real candor and intimacy," says Kerry Herman, one of the researchers working on the case. "Their feelings about HBS and the... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Dec 2018
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Raising the Barrio

vocational schools are scheduled to open in the barrio. They will be the first public schools in a community where only about 60 percent of adults have finished secondary school. A massive construction... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2002
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Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago

Harger started last year, and the club's numbers promptly increased 10 percent. The copresidents are currently establishing a Career Program and have begun connecting with other area business school alumni... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton

25 May 2011
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Race to the Finish?

The National Research Council, an arm of the U.S National Academy of Sciences, recently added its voice to a growing chorus of calls for immediate action to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. As it happens, the announcement came on the heels of a visit to the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

impact, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE For 50 years, Harvard Business School has recognized a number of outstanding women and men by conferring on them its highest honor, the... View Details

15 Mar 2019
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A Model of Drive and Impact

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the business model, the reasons... View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

12 Sep 2019
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Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse

Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. For more information or to find archived episodes, visit alumni.hbs.edu/skydeck. View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart

happens, lawyering didn't come first for Stewart. After graduating from HBS, he worked for several years in the business trenches, in marketing at J.C. Penney and later as product manager at Kroehler Manufacturing Co., a furniture... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2002
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Faculty Updates

Michael Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1975. An expert in the areas of organizational effectiveness, change, and human resource management, Beer has authored or coauthored... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

access to more than thirty time-sharing terminals for use in course preparation. As computer use in the business world expanded, in 1983 the School began an experiment in conjunction with IBM to see how the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Feb 1999
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Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

wasn't just a school - it was a business, where one could apply business concepts such as fiscal management and marketing strategies. However, he also had to remember that a nonprofit was a very different... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

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