Technical and Trade Schools - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons

kids last summer and experienced something he hadn’t in years: complete panic. Once a “master of the universe” as chairman of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s Financial Services Group, Pechter was now just another teacher-in-training,... View Details

Keywords: Lory Hough; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Atlas of the World's Commerce (London: George Newnes, 1907), p. 98-99, map. Arçelik Corporation (Koç Group) A.M. Colpan and G. Jones, “Vehbi Koc and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B),”... View Details

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

about their experiences before and during the MBA program. Kristen Shipley (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown and which HBCU did you attend? My hometown is Baltimore, Maryland View Details

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Faculty & Research - Business History

Faculty & Research Faculty & Research Harvard Business School faculty members have made notable contributions to the history of business. Faculty research is diverse, based in several of the School’s units, View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

secondhand truck and started delivering fuel oil; that was the founding of our company. I felt it was essential to go to college and business school to prepare for the business... View Details

2018
Introduction

Introduction

By: Sophus A. Reinert

BOOK ABSTRACT: When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of... View Details

Keywords: Markets; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Trade; History

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11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

several months in stealth mode while perfecting a full-featured product and planning an expensive launch party at a Las Vegas trade show. Rather, the lean startup launches as quickly as possible with what... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

04 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 4

Biases By: Zhang, Ting, and Max Bazerman Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sagepub.com/refbooks/Book235986 Working Papers Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

China Trade Bibliography Manuscript Collections Related Collections Site Credits “Business is too important and interesting not to be chronicled somehow,” Albert Heard wrote. 1 He was referring to his... View Details

01 Jan 2011
News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

that it is available for rent on eBay. Klarman's legendary success as both an investor and a philanthropist belies another aspect of his personality: he enjoys living his life out of the spotlight. At Baupost's Boston headquarters,... View Details

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

He worked his way through college, earning an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins in 1964, and went on to receive his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1966. After graduating... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

provided more substantial coverage than what I previously had from school versus on the job. Emily Stebbins External Vendor Data Relationship Manager, Index & Data Solutions at BlackRock Jumpstart your career by gaining the skills View Details

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

we can come to prefer difference, with time—to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. We took on this idea while teaching Inclusive Leadership to first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School last academic year. I teach the... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

experiences with the flat tax. He also gave advice on what he believed the flat tax should be linked with (privatization and access to a free trade area) in order to turn the economy around View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

Africa to watching the sunrise over ancient temples in Cambodia. Never could we have imagined handling long-distance from the United States’ East Coast to Australia’s West Coast for nearly three years. Never could we have imagined doing business View Details

27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

PublicationsRethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract : "Business Schools... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

mixed martial artists from around the world. An enormous screen shows highlights from previous matchups held since ONE FC’s 2011 founding, in locations as diverse as China, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

Advanced Micro Devices. She has the unique combination of both technical genius, as well as business acumen. She led an incredible transformation and turnaround of AMD into one of the fastest-growing... View Details

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

"visibility" of your trading partners' performance, thereby reducing risk. Broaden cooperation. Supply chain and risk managers regularly work with colleagues in purchasing, logistics, traffic,... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

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