Michael Farmer (MBA 1971) - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

inaction. That was the message delivered on February 12, 2019, at “Confronting Climate Change: Boston-Based Ideas that Can Change the World,” a panel discussion at the Spangler Center moderated by HBS Professor Michael Toffel and... View Details

12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

name, and cast your vote to the right to predict the winner. asia-pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Sophia Shing, MBA 1997 Founder Little Teacher mobile language learning canada HBS Club of Toronto Jennifer Lee Koss, View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

23 Oct 2019
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Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and implement a complex process to produce electronic circuit boards. During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

01 Sep 2003
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Alumni Navigator Takes Off

functionality and information contained in the current MBA student online class cards. Gifts from Chantal and Michael Jennings (MBA ’68) and from the Class of 2003 made the new service possible. The Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2008
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Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded

percent of the class, the MBA Class of 2007 set a participation record for a graduating class. The class raised almost $55,000, including a $25,000 matching gift from HBS Fund Chair Michael Cronin (MBA '77).... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2015
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Fıelds of Gold

Growth Market: Afghan saffron has also attracted the attention of MBA classmates Ben Bines, Kimberly Jung, KinYan Chew, and Emily Miller (all HBS 2015), who founded Rumi Spice with a mission similar to Earth2Globe’s. (©Majid... View Details

Keywords: April White; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

01 Jun 2011
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Promising Starts

Eight Class of 2011 MBAs will spend the coming year working in key management positions with nonprofits and public-sector organizations with support from the School’s Leadership Fellows Program. This year’s fellows are (front row) Alisa... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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Buy the Book

as a sublime integration of operations and marketing,” says Deighton, who taught the case to MBAs for the first time this fall in the elective course Consumer Marketing. “Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

15 Nov 2016
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders

Associate Professor George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Michael E. Porter was an associate professor at HBS when he first developed his now-renowned five forces framework for strategy. Likewise, Clayton M. Christensen advanced the... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

series focusing on topics such as “Accounting for Climate Change.” “The BEI’s mission is to educate, connect, and mobilize students, faculty, alumni, and other business leaders around climate change and related environmental priorities,” explains View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2002
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Faculty Updates

Michael Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1975. An expert in the areas of organizational effectiveness, change, and human resource management, Beer has authored or coauthored... View Details

27 Apr 2017
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Ensuring That Students Can Pursue Their Dreams

Jennifer Kelm Sergio (MBA 2010) (photo by Tori Soper) Jennifer Kelm Sergio (MBA 2010) (photo by Tori Soper) DONOR: Jennifer D. Kelm (MBA 2010) Fellowship FORMER RECIPIENT: Michael J. (MBA 1962) and Mary C. Johnston Fellowship Jennifer... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

associate dean and director of Faculty Hiring and Planning and senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, first taught at HBS from 1971 to 1979 and was the Thomas Henry CarrollFord Foundation... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

Change: Paris, and the Road Ahead,” with students in a Business, Government, and the International Economy class in spring 2019. (photo by Kavita Pillay) “Climate Change: Paris, and the Road Ahead,” a case taught in the MBA Program’s... View Details

08 Jun 2011
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George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees

Singapore government, for its part, thought that was a good move too, but felt that Yeo could best serve his country by earning a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School, not an MBA from HBS. “Oh, there... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

19 Jun 2018
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Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

Clubs News Clubs News Outgoing HBSA Pittsburgh President Bill Slivka (MBA 1976) (left) stands with guest speaker Michael McGarry (AMP 169 2005), Chairman and CEO of PPG, at the Association's Annual Meeting. Outgoing HBSA Pittsburgh... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green

doctorate at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and on a dissertation entitled "On the Physics and Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Terrestrial and Marine Environments." Dawe was the co-president of the HBS Energy Club and had spent his... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

25 May 2011
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Singapore Star

School, not an MBA from HBS. “Oh, there was tremendous pressure put on me to do the MPA,” Yeo told Singapore’s Business Times (April 9, 2011). “At that time, the civil service did not want me to do an MBA. There was always the fear that... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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The Harvard Business School Campaign: California Regional Events

Holland (MBA 1987) and Prem Abraham (MBA 1974) caught up during the evening event at Fort Mason Center. The HBS Campaign Los Angeles Regional Event, June 11, 2014 Dean Nitin Nohria with Ty Kim and Mike Hohmann (both MBA 2000) during the... View Details