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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
address top-management concerns, and share best practices and insights. Women Building Business -an MBA elective field study seminar led by HBS professors Myra Hart and Lynda M. Applegate intended for students who plan to design and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
black person I have ever held a conversation with.” TED LEWIS grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied architecture and sociology, Lewis joined the Peace Corps, working for two... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
this work through longitudinal data collection, research, education, and the dissemination of best practices. We are also committed to diversifying the protagonists of our case studies so they better reflect... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(DBA 1972) (MIT Press) China is moving from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation, and western businesses need to prepare for a tidal wave of innovation from China The authors explain this transformation and propose strategies for both Western and Chinese... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Labor Relations Board then notifies the business owner that a secret ballot election must take place within six weeks. During that time employers wishing to make the case to their employees that they would be better off without a union... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
three-day school trip weaving woolen swatches on a collection of old-fashioned floor looms. Later that day, he notes, the students will learn about—and even pet—indigenous Appalachian wildlife (including a pink-eyed albino corn snake) before wading into nearby Greasy... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
other resources to help put Russia's War on Ukraine in context Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Insights on Russia and Ukraine from Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Harvard... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
entrepreneur) did not study interventions to change this bias—which was as prevalent among female investors as among male investors—but she hopes the findings will spark conversations about how to change the disparity. “The first step is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
making specialized hospital beds and power tools for orthopedic surgeons. It provides a case study of Elfers's dictum that the venture firm's forte should always be "strong support of portfolio companies and... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
confident enough to give praise. MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a high-growth EdTech startup in this 2018 HBS case study (purchase required) MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries, this book encourages all to rebel against what’s comfortable so we can thrive. New Perspectives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Successful Harvard Business School Graduate, As Told in the Case Study Method by Fred Kahn (MBA 1963) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform In this memoir, Kahn uses the case-study method to examine... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih in a... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
book, The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (Princeton University Press), draws on data gleaned from nearly 4,000 high-potential start-ups and 10,000 founders, while incorporating case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
responsible for the project opted for a novel approach. Shad’s runners now have a green roof over their heads, a first for HBS. What’s a green roof? Think garden in the sky. In the case of Shad, the garden covers 5,200 square feet (about... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Products, Companies, and the World—with a Single Step by Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998) (Creative Good Inc.) This book provides a road map for executives and entrepreneurs who want to create better products and services. Using real-world View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
own way, I’m trying to make up for the failures of the past. Amar Kumar (MBA 2010) SVP, Pearson Do more than deliver In our first semester at HBS we studied a case on relationship building—something about... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios