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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
acquisition by WorldCom, Keen joined Level 3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn't align with upper management's. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
nonprofits at the time. “When I went into the nonprofit world in 1991, the number of MBAs there was very small compared to today,” he says. “For better or worse, many nonprofits only attracted people who had the passion View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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HBS Archives Collections - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Bibliography Baker Library Archives Schlesinger Library Archives HBS Archives, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records, 1940-1997 This small collection... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
generating unmotivated and distracted students. To rebuild the educational enterprise to better meet those needs, the authors lead readers through a series of key processes: goal-setting, organizing teams,... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
F. Morgan (HBS MBA '64) asserts. "It was really mind-blowing, that you could take such a small amount of seed capital and get ownership of a company that was worth more than IBM in a fairly short period of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
to be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. One thing Shackleton did very well was to revise, and reset, his objectives as the context changed. As soon as his ship was trapped... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
her for a small chain of upscale restaurants run by Kansas-based Gilbert-Robinson, Inc. After two years as vice president of marketing, she returned to Minneapolis to work at an ad agency and to do some... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
developed an important insight into why the owners of small businesses typically wait until the last minute to update their books and file tax forms. Most people would say they are just lazy or... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
and risk. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Authors: Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
eliminated the Foundations II program and moved its content elsewhere into the required curriculum. The Society and Enterprise module, for instance, has been integrated into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
their supply chains in the developing world. I wanted to get involved in that.” During his year as a Leadership Fellow at the WWF, Murphy served as director of enterprise planning and got to know the... View Details
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Ari Medoff
measured. "Half the joint degree students participated," Ari says. "It demonstrates the self-motivation and teamwork the program engenders." In his own future, Ari sees parallel paths in the pursuit of public service.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
here for almost ten years, running a family enterprise that dates back to the 1960s. Along with a few automobile-related businesses in the French West Indies, we are the distributor for Toyota, Suzuki, and... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2378558 Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
Enterprises were over, and was very sorry about that," he recalls. "But that was superseded by my elation that East German people would be freed from the horrible yoke and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
hundreds of CEOs and entrepreneurs to strip away the differences between startups that grow into multibillion-dollar enterprises and those that disappear altogether. Here, Yeh... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
Response, the organization has drawn on the knowledge of 1,200-plus MBA volunteers from 20 schools to help small businesses and nonprofits navigate challenges through the pandemic. “There’s a history of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
And there’s a significant implication of that, not only for the quality of work and the further human capital development that they would experience, depending on the occupation they’re in, but also the vast... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which... View Details