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Morgan Hall | About

extensive reconstruction from 1990 to 1992. The complicated undertaking modernized and significantly expanded the building’s capacity and created a physical environment that fosters intellectual collaboration among faculty from different... View Details

31 Aug 2021
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Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

power really works." In many ways, the book comes across as a sort of modern update of Machiavelli’s classic political treatise on power, but with plenty of non-Machiavellian twists. Instead of talking about how princes, plutocrats, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

2014
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Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan

At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most powerful civilization in the world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest.... View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; Leadership; Power and Influence; China

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01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

She's teaching domestic arts — skills that have gotten lost over the last few decades. She's extremely good at simplifying the steps required so that people can do these things despite the pressures of modern life. MSLO is a company whose... View Details

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

north-facing façade was restored, existing faculty offices were updated, and 30 new faculty offices were added. The updates incorporated modern digital media and resources, while creating accessible, environmentally controlled storage... View Details

November 2024
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Group AMANA: Built to Last

By: Hise Gibson and Fares Khrais

The case chronicles the Bsaibes brothers’ journey in founding and operating Group AMANA; a contracting business founded in 1993, based in the United Arab Emirates with operations across the Middle East. Over the years, the business found itself grappling with major... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Business Strategy; Construction Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates

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01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2024
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Unlocking the Power of Community

ancient artistry and modern technology, providing tattoo artists a novel platform to monetize their art beyond the chair. Through Co:Create Ink, they can offer their designs as dynamic non-fungible tokens, which enables them to receive... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

large reallocation of modern information technology, with particular links to communications. Some of it broke. The best organizations have had the ability to expand existing capacity because the technology did not break under the strain.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Mellon Hall | About

2000 to provide 72 single rooms with private baths and to meet modern accessibility requirements. During the project, which was led by Finegold Alexander & Associates architects, some of the 47,697-square-foot building’s original interior... View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

business schools. It was only later that the managerial diseconomies of widely diversified businesses became evident. Hartog and Woodroofe were organizational modernizers who addressed the consequences of diversification. They drove... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

09 Apr 2019
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Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed

In a series of posts on LinkedIn, Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), co-chief investment officer and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, has written an extensive examination of modern capitalism. “I believe that all good things taken to an extreme... View Details

Keywords: capitalism

08 Nov 2022
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How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

anthropological database of more than 1,200 pre-industrial societies, and links these historic conditions to modern data, such as the Standard Demographic and Health Surveys, which offer large-scale household survey data worldwide. These... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

subsidiaries around the country that reported back to the New York office. 18 Personnel working in public relations could consult a wealth of literature by nationally known experts. They included Ivy Lee, considered the father of modern... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

be well suited for the study of history. In 2006 he began developing the elective Creating the Modern Financial System, to examine the intersection of the financial sector and government in shaping financial history through a series of... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in other spheres that are vital to the interests of society (such as law and government, military affairs, health, and religion, to consider the classic examples), modern societies have responded by creating the institutions that we know... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

is designed for foodies, tourists, foreign residents, and anyone who wants to learn more about ancient and modern México, its cuisine, culture, and history. With it, you will: possess a comprehensive Mexican dictionary of food terms with... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

American Heart Journal Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States? by R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate... View Details

06 Jul 2011
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Are You a Level-Six Leader?

of the modern world's greatest Opportunists. Also of this genre, although somewhat lesser known, is Jeffrey Skilling, the Enron CEO who sold off tens of millions of dollars of stock just before Enron filed for bankruptcy, claiming he had... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

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