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- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
farmer-turned-salesman termed a “mean caling” [sic] in 1810 today is a respectable profession that employs roughly 12 percent of the U.S. workforce. Relying heavily on material from salesmen’s diaries and journal entries, sales ledgers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
For me, being part of a team that created a space for these stories to be heard and acknowledged—to create a dialogue—was a new form of social impact. I’ve also grown a lot as a leader, in terms of building a team from scratch and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose companies that aspire to excellence... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
outstanding in terms of job and population growth and quality of life. That research led me to write a book, Boomtown USA: The 7½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns, published in 2004." Since then, Schultz has visited some 400 communities... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
to eating a cookie. Twenty-five years after Pete’s death, little progress has been made in terms of understanding the condition or options for treatment. “The same antiquated autoinjector is still the first line of treatment in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
experimentation in the required curriculum (RC). One aspect of the MBA Program that has been refined in the process is Foundations, a set of brief courses ("modules") in the initial weeks of each term in the RC. An introduction to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
for himself. It’s quite stream of consciousness. There are 12 books, each about five or six pages long. For example, in Book One he lists all the people who have been important to him, and what he feels he got from them in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
our new fund, is likely to be very similar in its composition. You didn’t use the term Web 2.0 to describe your investment prospects. Why not? It almost never gets mentioned here. We talked a lot about Web 2.0 in 2003 and 2004 as we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devised to facilitate factory work in the last century. The term “artful making” was inspired by the collaborative successes that creative artists regularly achieve without plotting a detailed set of objectives in advance. The book... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
a Cameroon-based company while pursuing a joint degree at HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences during the pandemic took all of Ajanoh’s spare time. During the January 2022 term break, he went to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
platform he launched in 2007. Alison’s first six courses were among the first MOOCs—massive open online courses—to take advantage of the reach of the internet, debuting even before the term was coined. Now, 14 years later, Alison offers... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
bringing people around to your point of view. It meant thinking in the broadest possible terms about personal and corporate responsibilities. We’ve come a long way since then. We built a remarkable campus, thanks to George F. Baker’s... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
e-commerce presence, coining the term “clicks and bricks.” She retained the firm’s neighborhood-store DNA as well as its mission—to be the best at giving beauty advice. After opening 16 stores, in 2006 she was looking for capital to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
and fellow faculty member John J. Sviokla coined a term to describe the nonphysical arena in which business transactions were increasingly taking place - the marketspace. The Managing in the Marketspace course the pair developed and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
in our classrooms. We are excited by the possibilities generated by our research offices in California and Hong Kong and our planned center in Latin America. The California Research Center (CRC) has far exceeded expectations in terms of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
is poorly understood—we’ve known that for a while—it’s how surprised they are. I think what’s going on is this: Most executives, when they think about strategy focus on communication, and they measure communication in terms of the numbers... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
product in terms of its daily cost, and Samuel S. Chun's research into the future of trade promotions. Among the goals of all this work is heightened collaboration among the faculty. "Given the momentous changes going on in marketing... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
us are suffering in silence. We don’t want anyone to know we’re feeling a little less than certain—or even vulnerable,” she says. Skeete Tatum speaks in personal terms about Landit, in part because her own experience inspired the idea for... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
mess. The work is already so hard. It’s a blessing to do it, I would not want to work in service to anyone else in terms of the communities of color that we serve in the community that we serve, but it’s tough. It’s really tough. Our kids... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
are closer to the batter than the pitcher is. The complex is so close to the water that fans in all manner of floating craft regularly camp out to catch “splash hits” — the official term for home runs that clear the right field wall and... View Details