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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Professional Property Development by John McMahan (MBA ’61) (McGraw-Hill) McMahan addresses the fundamentals of successful property development — marketing, financing, planning, designing, construction, merchandising, and property management — subjects valuable for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted it would fail. Former chairman and CEO Batten offers a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Social Partnering in Latin America by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco, Gabriel Berger, Rosa María Fischer, Roberto Gutierrez, Mladen Koljatic, Gerardo Lozano, Enrique Ogliastri, and the SEKN Team (Harvard University Press) Professor Austin and his coauthors (a Social... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
Linder Photo Courtesy of Accenture Institute As research director at the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business, Jane C. Linder (MBA 1976, DBA 1989) was asked to provide a managing director with new material for a speech on "transformational outsourcing" –... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
August, Quin returned to Yemen, where she interviewed the imprisoned Muslims whose release her captors had sought, in order to better understand their thoughts and personalities. Having completed the bulk of her research and some writing (she hopes to View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
$205,000). By Invitation Only, a book detailing their entrepreneurial journey, will be published in April. AW: Marvin, you spend a lot of time traveling abroad. Are there any innovative retail concepts that you see outside the United... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
“At the time, it was the highest-volume pizza operation in the world. I learned how to make pizzas very fast and rose to become a store manager during college.” On deadline: “I was editor of a Navy magazine called Surface Warfare, and at HBS, I was View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
increase the restaurant’s hours of operation. But “fixing” elBulli turns it into just another restaurant, says Norton: “The things that make it inefficient are part of what makes it so valuable to people.” Adrià’s other business ventures include View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
DATAR AND GARVIN: Listen to "Rethinking the MBA" Virtual Learning Series phone call (mp3) If you are curious about the future of business education, look no further than the new book Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press), by... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- News
Helping people get jobs
Ava Seave’s (MBA 1982) early career in publishing prepared her to launch Quantum Media, a consulting firm where she now helps grow the economy and create jobs. (Published May 2015) View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
been. Amy’s bucket list from weeks before she died included: make a completely unique contribution to the world; touch someone’s heart; make a difference. Publishing the journals could fulfill her list. In an address I heard Dean Nohria... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
Executive Education programs drew a record 9,345 participants. And Harvard Business Publishing sold 8.2 million cases and over 2 million books, peak figures for both. These and many other details are laid out in narrative, charts, and... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
the company should focus on franchises. “After that, Mayer began working on acquisition candidates, including comic-book publisher Marvel and Lucasfilm, the home of ‘Star Wars’,” the article notes, also mentioning Iger’s previous $7.4... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
Baker Library: Do you want to know more about how precision medicine rose to the forefront of medical research today? See "A New Initiative on Precision Medicine" published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015. The article... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
for Executive Education, sought to achieve broad-based appeal by selecting five faculty presenters with recently published research in several different areas. The approach evidently succeeded, as the program sold out, attracting eighty... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
People Power
HBS professor Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (DBA ’86) of the London Business School have won the 2002 Award for Leadership and Corporate Governance from the Association of ExecutiveSearch Consultants for their article “Building Competitive Advantage through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch tells the story of his climb to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School Press ) Did venture capital cause the explosion in innovation in the last thirty years, or did innovation jump-start venture capital investing? This is just one of many questions about the power of venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Devilish Plot
Devilish plot: This year’s HBS Show, The Devil Wears Crimson (here in rehearsal), centered on an anonymous gossip blogger who wreaks havoc at HBS as she tries to uncover who caused the financial crisis. When she learns that her boyfriend’s faulty math is to blame, she... View Details