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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
ethanol plant in an increasingly competitive, complex environment. “For the first time in history, the food and energy markets are converging,” says Reinhardt. “It’s hard to imagine two areas of greater importance, or with greater government intervention.” The... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
that really is going to require public policy change. Another sort of unique aspect of Strada has been that we have both acquired—and in some cases created—new national nonprofit organizations in order to address some of the specific... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
developed more than sixty cases for the course, Stevenson and Poorvu also began articulation of a conceptual framework still in use today in entrepreneurial management courses. Leaving the School in 1978, Stevenson went on to manage a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
open systems that can be leveraged by anyone will thrive over closed, proprietary systems; I think of the United States as an open system in that sense." One of Ranadivé's earliest dreams was to study at MIT, which he learned of through a... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
with a healthy alternative.'" Which HBS case study had the greatest impact on you, and why? "'NuCor Steel' changed the way I evaluate innovation. I am now very much on the lookout for low-end disruptors as... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
from his study group and from Recordings for the Blind, which made audiotapes of all his cases and other required texts. He became the first blind person to graduate from HBS. “The Business School was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
of Education Arne Duncan, who first attended PELP in 2003 when he was CEO of Chicago's public schools. The popular program engages eight-person district teams in an intensive learning experience that includes analyses of education- and business-based cases, group View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
“Yes, sir. No, sir. No excuse, sir.” —A case study in responsibility—in business or the military Chris Howard (MBA 2003) served in the Air Force in Afghanistan, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star; he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
of Difference edited by Todd L. Pittinsky (PhDOB ’01) (Harvard Business Press) Bringing groups together is a central task of leadership. These theoretical and practical essays and case studies on intergroup... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right people to help your venture fly? If you get your team right, the idea will come. And the money will follow." Bhide, who for the past eight years has been studying five hundred mid-level entrepreneurial businesses around the country,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
insights to execute a more compelling product or service is a best practice we’ve studied in cases about certain companies, and it is definitely one of Randal’s strengths,” Martin said. Thomke described what... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. Christensen holds a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
In some ways it doesn't seem that long ago that our class began its studies at Soldiers Field, but a look back at the first Harbus edition in the fall of 1972 seems to reveal another century. King of Hearts and Diary of a Mad Housewife... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
the numbers. Inclusiveness is about making the numbers count and effecting a cultural change. Your earlier research resulted in a surprising finding about the difference between male and female star performers. In a nine-year study of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
disasters. Photo courtesy Gregg Bemis Mysteries of the Deep Gregg Bemis Jr. (MBA ’54) Age: 76 Home: Santa Fe, New Mexico Gregg Bemis walked out the door of his last corporate job in 1979, at the age of 51. “It became readily apparent that View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
are derived from a study of 238 knowledge workers in seven companies across three industries. For an average of about four months, participants were asked to complete a confidential daily diary form asking them to assess their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
spoke English at the time. Mikitani’s move was radical and divisive. He even coined a term for the conversion: “Englishnization.” “This issue is explosive,” says HBS assistant professor Tsedal Neeley, who tracks the company’s journey in her View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
and, of course, the doors opened by an MBA from a prestigious northeastern business school, it has been a great ride. When I compare myself to my mother, we both fulfilled very different demographic norms. She had four children in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
Creativity is often considered a mysterious, impossible-to-harness force. But a new working paper by Assistant Professor Daniel P. Gross suggests that it can indeed be nurtured with the right incentives. Gross studied the question in the... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Historic Gift from HBS to New Radcliffe Institute
Institute. "This is an exciting moment," noted HBS Dean Kim B. Clark in presenting the gift to outgoing Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson and Mary Maples Dunn, who assumed the top leadership post at Radcliffe this summer. "Given the Business School's relative youth... View Details