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- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
optimistic that a coordinated effort by business, labor, government, academia, and citizens at large can help reverse this course and put the American economy back on a positive track." The Project's research focuses on key dimensions of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
majored in psychology as an undergraduate at Brown University and continued to develop that interest through the study of hakomi, a method of body-centered psychotherapy. Until recently, he also volunteered in the Young Presidents' Organization as View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
own and control the use of property in accord with their own interests, and where the invisible hand of the pricing mechanism coordinates supply and demand in markets in a way that is automatically in the best interests of society.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
and improvements, the service industries in general are a long way behind manufacturing. Not all lean manufacturing ideas translate from factory floor to office cubicle. A lean operating system alters the way a company learns through changes in problem solving, View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
Committee in Washington, chaired by Charles Rossotti (MBA 1964) and coordinated by Julie Wolinsky (MBA 1998). Congratulations to Senior Associate Dean Mal Salter (now retired!), who served as faculty chair; to the many faculty members who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
to the printer in South Carolina, who would keyboard all the pages twice and then compare the two copies of the page as a crude way of proofing!” Fortunately, computers have rendered that tedious process obsolete. But it still takes three copy editors and a production... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology
city.” In addition to the projects above, Henry worked on a Housing Rent Registry project with the Housing Department and IBM, coordinated a CEO advisory board for the mayor, and orchestrated a speakers series on major technology topics... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
reason is last-mile delivery challenges in a region where people often lack formal street addresses, a problem solved by UAE-based startup Fetchr, which utilizes smartphone GPS coordinates for delivery. Vitoria Ivashina, Lovett-Learned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The last few months have been exciting ones at the School. We have witnessed the announcement of a new Harvard president, sponsored another dynamic Global Alumni Conference, welcomed club officers along with current and emeriti board members for their annual meetings,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
corporate synergies should be defined at the top and realized in the business units. Just as the CFO coordinates the budgeting process, a senior executive should coordinate the alignment process—a... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
thrown in the deep end,” he recalls, of owning his first business. “I did everything: marketing, making sales, coordinating shipments, supervising, installation of the ceilings.” In 1963, Diamond bought out his two partners, and later,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
How I Structured My Second Year at HBS
entrepreneurship, who love helping students. I would have spent more time building these relationship during my second year because it is such a great way to expand your perspective and the EC year provides the flexibility to coordinate... View Details
- Student-Profile
Hummy Song
I became passionate about health policy and operations management while I was working with community health worker programs in rural Uganda. I witnessed firsthand the gaps in coordination that needed to be bridged, and spent a lot of time... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the Post to look after their four children and coordinate the couple's active Washington social life. Her life changed abruptly in 1963, when Philip Graham committed suicide after a struggle with manic depression, and she took control of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
that I have.” Neeley’s research focuses on the challenges organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study... View Details
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2.1.4 Academic Retaliation | MBA
proceeding regarding such a complaint, or opposing conduct the student believes violates the Interim Title IX Sexual Harassment Policy or the Interim Other Sexual Misconduct Policy, then the student should contact a Title IX Resource View Details
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Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>
board of directors. Pioneers in management included Benjamin H. Latrobe of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, who focused on financial accounting; J. Edgar Thomas of the Pennsylvania Railway, who worked on the coordination of regional lines... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
council with representatives pulled from the many student clubs and regular “office” hours in the Spangler Grille. Jyoti Agarwal, running with Fred Smith, talked about working across university constituencies to effect change, from View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43830 Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable Role-Based Coordination By: Valentine, Melissa, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—In this paper, we integrate research on role-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne