Isle of Man - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2019
News

Not Waiting for Progress

Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took shape in 2006 after... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

"You have to be absolutely conscious of standards. The reason Bill Gates is the richest man in the world after the Sultan of Brunei is because he captured the standards.... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

10 Mar 2021
News

Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

“I realized that it’s not about the idea; it’s about the team,” Medina recalls of those early days. It was a revelation that would serve him well. Medina soon joined forces with product designer Andrew Kinzer and enrolled in the... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership

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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

providing advice on public relations strategies and techniques. Titles include And Be Neighbourly by J. Carlisle Macdonald, head of public relations at U. S. Steel, and The Making of a Public Relations View Details

14 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

through a wide variety of resources. What has been the most difficult part of your experience as a STEM student, and how did you overcome it? As an openly queer Afro Latino man... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

improved infrastructure for water and for jobs, notes Meyer. There is much at stake for Mbeki - only the second black president of South Africa - as he follows in the footsteps of Mandela. Meyer is careful... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Brother. "His family had a number of serious problems," O'Neill relates. "It was up to this boy to keep them all together, and somehow he did, all the while developing his own natural talent for baseball. "Today that young View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

Summing Up When Does Friction Trump Scale in the Corporate Life Cycle? This month's column raised the issue of size limits on an organization's ability to compete In today's global economy. The specific case in point was Walmart and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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Meet the Team | Information Technology

a number of traditional and multimedia case studies, including Man Jit Singh at Sony Entertainment Television, Tom Kalil: Leading Technology and Innovation at the White House, Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to... View Details

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Profile

Anthony Tan

closest competitors and we intend to grow that fast.” For a man who says he knew he wanted to be a businessman as early as age six, Tan is unafraid of taking risks. He credits HBS as the place where... View Details

17 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Video Blog: My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

between the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School. I'm so excited today that I get the opportunity to introduce myself, one. And two, this is going to be a series of events that really details my transition from someone... View Details

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Research Resources | Baker Library

Smith College Bulletin, The Catalogue Number 1952–1953, Smith College, with an Announcement of Courses for 1953–1954, series 47, no. 2: 49–53. Northampton, Mass.: Smith College, 1953. Smith College News . Press Release (October 18, 1968):... View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

would be trained in "the thorough analysis of and in the administrative control of a manufacturing company....taken up not only from the standpoint of a View Details

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

efficiency and it’s up from near zero just five years ago. The mitigation projects are getting less traction from promoters for their reduction of CO2 emissions than they are getting from their resilience in the face View Details

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

with the company’s president one day, the man suggested that Ross go to HBS. “It was an unbelievable experience,” Freeman recalls. “Competing against such a talented group of people, at that level, really... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

27 Oct 2016
News

Paying It Forward

saved the lives of hundreds of children since it was first established nearly 30 years ago. “It’s an amazing story,” says Kundu. “A man named Balaram Karan was working in a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

the crowd and in the slate of featured films at the industry-shaping gathering. Recalling the moment in a 2017 interview with the LA Sentinel, he noted, “I was the only African American, single, and gay man... View Details

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