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21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

selling the produce on the site where we intended to build. Instead of disrupting something positive that community members had created, together we figured out a way to incorporate the market into the building design. The market will... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

University's School of Theology. He earned his M.Div. degree last year and this month begins a new career as assistant rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Belmont, Massachusetts. Messenger plans to design a multifaith corporate... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Oct 1996
News

The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions

informed decisions. Bulletin: Where can people find more information about MBA admissions? Fadule: They can visit the HBS Web site at to learn more about the School and the MBA Program or to download or... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

include Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, HBS professors Michael Porter and Clay Christensen, and Tom Coughlin, EVP, president, and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Division. Be sure to visit the Cleveland conference Web... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

Facebook's attraction has peaked. The apparent disappearance of teenagers from the site has made these concerns even greater. I disagree with this conclusion. Teenagers will return to the site when they are... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

01 Apr 1999
News

Short Takes

competitive edge. As one example of a winning strategy, Nolan cites Cisco Systems, a twelve-year-old company that makes routers for networks. In 1998, Cisco reached a market value exceeding $100 billion in record-breaking time. It did so, in part, writes Nolan, by... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Dec 2007
News

Looking back; looking forward

a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 8, 1908, and President Eliot’s choice for its first dean — a young Harvard economist named Edwin F. Gay — was confirmed that day. The following fall, 24 candidates arrived ready to pursue a... View Details

Keywords: Jay O. Light; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 1997
News

Arthur Rock (MBA '51)

product could change the world, and the drive to make it happen, they merely needed the money to get a new company started. The "traitorous eight," as they became known, enlisted the help of a visionary investment banker from New York, Arthur Rock (MBA '51). After his... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)

it was assumed you’d stay with that firm for life. And if one of your corporate clients got a better offer from a competing bank, they’d stick with you anyway. Loyalty and relationships were everything. That is emphatically no longer the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance

05 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

makeup. Ten Proven Ways To Avoid Deep Change Sprinkle Internet responsibilities throughout the company—a little Web site here, a little brochure-ware there. Let them all go forward, as long as they stay small and innocuous. If any look... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

Corporation as project leader of an effort to create a stand-alone word-processing system. Following a brief stint at FasFax Corporation, he arrived at HBS in pursuit of an education that might help him keep ahead of succeeding... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

for him, Levine said, was that the company's CEO backed the project, and allowed the group to operate outside the usual corporate boundaries. Levine was even able to move the start-up off campus. Once the group had developed its product,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library

Director’s Foreword The Lehman Brothers website was originally launched in 2018. The site was migrated to a new platform in 2025 with the guidance of Adam Jacobi and Jennifer Wilson. Download the Exhibition Catalog (PDF) In 2002, Lehman... View Details

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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library

Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D Photo: Ansel Adams with Polaroid camera, ca. 1972. “The Polaroid Newsletter for Photograph Education,” Volume IV, No. 2, Spring 1987. Polaroid Corporation Corporate Archives... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

A Roaring Success in the Windy City

technology. He emphasized that while the School remains firmly rooted in its traditional mission - to educate leaders by building knowledge - new strategies will be needed to meet the challenges of today's dynamic world. Clark used materials on the HBS Web View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

to visit the rural village in Gujarat India where our... Channeling Business Leadership into Civic Impact: HBS Alumni and the City of San Francisco Elaine MacDonald 11 Aug 2017 For 30 years, HBS Association of Northern California’s... View Details

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