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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
prices. At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Professor of Business Administration and cochair, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship One such example is CellScope, which manufactures a device that fits easily over a smartphone's camera so a parent or school nurse can take a photo... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
the recent Climate Change Challenge assignment in Technology & Operations Management, a required first-year course taught by Mike Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and BEI faculty chair. More than 900... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
through, and I said to my mom afterwards, “That was not me at my finest moment, Mom, but you were my insurance.” Bill Hernandez, Class of ’73, Section J, a course called Decision Analysis. We were the special subsection, so other classes called it Managerial Economics... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
on the most important (and expensive) asset of any business: its people. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter, Bishop William View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Harvard University. For more information, please visit the program's website or reach out to the program director, Jane Unrue. Negotiating with Vladimir Putin: Video Advice from Five Former U.S. Secretaries of State HBS professor James K.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Playbook: A Practical Guide to Building a Successful Business By Paul H. Woodruff (PMD 27, 1974) Independently Published Many people want to turn their passion into a successful business. With this book, View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
A Recovery Squandered
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
actually the moment that got me to reflect on how the world was changing, [including] the world sitting in front of me in classrooms,” said Margolis, the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
work, in particular the relationship between investors and management. It was that dynamic that propelled him to HBS three years later. “HBS kicked my butt,” he recalls, recalling his experiences with professors Michael Porter, Jeffry... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship The Sweet Life: Paul Conforti at Finale Desserterie & Bakery. “Everything is a balancing act... you’ve got to be able to adapt.” Related Links A Growing Drumbeat Show Me the Money - or Not Cloudflare... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
coverage and increase premiums. However, the new proposal actually looks far more similar to Obamacare than many anticipated--causing some conservative groups to speak out forcefully against it. Criticizing the plan, Republican Senator Rand View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Lieutenant Commander Kristen B. Fabry (MBA ’02) L. Paul (“Jerry”) Bremer III (MBA ’66) David J. Horgan (MBA ’86) Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi (MBA ’71) Dileep Nair (AMP 114, 1994) HBS professor Benjamin C. Esty... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
the 21st century. “Africapitalism calls on the private sector to make long-term investment in industries that can create economic prosperity and social wealth.” The idea was inspired by Professor Michael Porter and his theories of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Europe and the United States, he said, "they have already reached a threshold in customer orientation, so you have to do different things to succeed." That's not the case yet in Asia, he pointed out, as Deshpandé listened intently. HBS View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 15 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path
Immersive Field Course with Professor Paul Gompers PhD ‘93. HLS has funded Spring Break pro bono trips, study abroad programs, and clinics that allow you to work in the community. Through HLS, I was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
of Planning and Development under departing Dean Kim Clark. Light, the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, is a member of the fifteen-person faculty group involved in advising Harvard President View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, had spent more than double that to produce the spaceship, but it was worth it, they said, for the bragging rights. “The prizes had a real impact" —Josh Lerner Prizes are increasingly dangled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
idea for this book rose to the fore. The Times was eager to have a prominent individual as the editor, so when Nancy Koehn agreed to do it, that was a big selling point for everyone.” As the September Bulletin was going to press with excerpts from her new book, we... View Details