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- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
But this is a far cry from the PSF CEO, who lives and works among her "shareholders." She passes them in the hall, eats lunch with them, and has to guide them productively to accomplish her objectives. Even if they work in... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Every year, members of HBS student clubs work overtime to organize conferences that address an array of business-related themes and issues. This year’s events, which featured renowned guest speakers and thought-provoking panels, focused... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
flagship program, the organization also offers a variety of programs for Boston youth and school organizations, including adventure-based programs for schools and community groups, internships for teens with career ambitions in the green... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
pharmaceuticals and software, and far above the average of all industries. Many apparent paradoxes add to the puzzle posed by the industry. While rarely considered fundamentally “bad,” such as the trade in narcotics or tobacco, the beauty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
imagine Snyder in a far more genteel setting than this drab, brown, Depression-era room on the 13th floor of 100 Centre Street on the city’s Lower East Side. Yet no one who has followed Snyder’s remarkable... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
perspective - like that of his 5,000 McKinsey colleagues - extends far beyond the immediate horizon. One of the world's premier management consulting firms, McKinsey conducts business from 80 offices in 37 countries, with almost half of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
words of Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics and an adviser to the study, “By far the most important factor in that growth is Wal-Mart.” Second, most of the value created by the company is actually pocketed by its customers in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professors Pearson Hunt and Gordon Donaldson), which has been used by more than 300 universities. The faculty was relatively compact and small when I joined HBS; the curriculum and the way courses were organized and taught was quite... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- Web
Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
fall into poverty because the outbreak was taking away lives, sources of income, foreign investment, and community stability. My short-term response to the outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
in state industries—became a closed caste, an industrial elite with hereditary jobs, and with privileges and security far above that of their rural cousins. If anything, the gap between urban and rural identities became greater. And the... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
Harris on the steps of Harlem's St. Charles Borromeo Church On a summer day in 1983, Carla Ann Harris (MBA ’87) stood before an audience of East Germans in a Leipzig church. Well before the Berlin Wall came down, Harris and other members... View Details
- Web
Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
over half a million low-income consumers across East Africa. The experience inspired Kasia to pursue a graduate education that would allow her to advance her career within the social sector. “I wanted two things from HBS: a more rounded... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
their families. The school, which opened its doors in East Palo Alto, California, in 2016, integrates academics with health care and family support services, all of which is offered tuition free. “We knew the education system was broken,”... View Details
- Portrait Project
Keyne Monson
like to create things – build businesses – either within a larger organization or by nurturing a small venture. I receive a tremendous amount of fulfillment by creating things where they didn't exist before. However, my goals for this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab companies and help the region... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
division.' " And in the 1960s and '70s, a foreign assignment could be far from a promotion: "It was sometimes the failed domestic managers who were sent abroad." “Companies can no longer assume that all the smart people in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Sound Society
Coachella. Finally, we co-hosted an amazing event with the Entertainment & Media Club that featured a performance by the band COLDCALL. We sold several hundred tickets to their performance at Middle East Downstairs, and it was the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
technology. The challenge we faced was changing a successful culture without diminishing its positive attributes. Cultural change is never an easy task, and far more cultural change efforts ultimately fail than succeed. Transforming a... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
community development movement that provides all low-income people with affordable housing and the opportunity to move into the economic mainstream. Working through a network of more than twelve hundred community-based nonprofit View Details