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- 04 Oct 2024
- News
On the Vineyard, Black Alumni Reconnect With Friends and HBS
The summer weather could not have been better on August 9, when 180 HBS alumni and guests converged on Martha’s Vineyard for “HBS on the Vineyard: A Summer Reception,” an event co-hosted by HBS External Relations and the HBS African-American Alumni Association... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
As an Indian national who was working in the Middle East in the petroleum industry, my decision to apply for an MBA was fueled (pun intended) by two reasons. One was the obvious need to get a business perspective after staying in the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Michael Echenberg
In the middle of October in 1921, Franz Kafka wrote in his diary, "Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. If you summon it by the right... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Patrick J. Barry look at three of the largest debacles so far in the 21st century—the BP affair, the mortgage meltdown and resulting crisis, and the use of lead paint in children's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
ON THE PRIZE: U.S. dependency on Middle East oil will be long term, Stobaugh says; about one-fifth of U.S. imports are from the region. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Energy Future argues that U.S. energy policy should focus on... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
leaders who managed to navigate their organizations through unpredictable social, political, and regulatory environments. To help fill this gap, Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project is building a rich library of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
game. The committee headquarters was set up at MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford, NJ, with a satellite office in New York City. Blumkin began working at the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee in February 2012—a full two years before the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
firm that provides capital advisory services to mid-sized, privately-held companies. Constantini cited his development of a company, Boston Financial, as one of his most rewarding projects. "I was able to do some creative, innovative things in order to transform a... View Details
- Web
Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care, (Fall Q2). Course Content and Organization The course meets every other week so that students can provide updates on their progress and receive feedback from the teaching team and their peers.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
decided that the war had made it impossible to hold the annual Alumni Conference at the School. With the help of the Dean's Office, we instead published a special "Alumni Conference in Print" issue with material that would have been presented at the customary annual... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
let go. Finding a happy medium is far from easy. Diana Baumrind, a pioneering research psychologist, observed that parents often behave in ways that are either authoritarian, permissive, or negligent, with a tendency to bounce among the... View Details
- 02 May 2018
- Blog Post
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
determines the value of sharing would be low and “the distraction it would cause would be significant.” This prompts the subject of our conversation today: Should compensation data be shared inside organizations? On what should a decision depend? How View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
people and process as much as technology. So there's more to the Y2K problem than technology? Definitely. You can tell a lot about a company by how it's reacting to the Y2K problem. An organization whose people failed to see how it would... View Details
- Blog
Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN
While HBS delivers the majority of its Executive Education programs in Boston, we conduct research and deliver global leadership programs to serve the needs of executives from all over the world. In her role as regional director of client development, Rukmani Bagai... View Details
- Student-Profile
Filippo Mezzanotti
recommendation on how to improve the organization of the banking sector. The Business Economics Program There were three elements that attracted me to the program: the rigor and the prestige of the program, the cultural richness of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
McNamara Illustration by Zak Pullen For a man who once commanded huge organizations and made decisions affecting the lives of millions, Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) is mostly on his own these days. Dressed casually in khakis and a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
marketing positioning in a customer's mind, and a way to keep an organization on its collective toes. But the concept is, in the opinion of readers, one that in application raises more questions than it answers. Among these are: (1) Are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
businesses afloat—and even make sure they eventually thrive—is a critical question as the world economy freezes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Small businesses employ some 70 percent of the workforce for the 35 countries that make up the View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
increased," write Roth, Fréchette, and Ünver. Their paper, "Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls," is available for download [pdf]. According to the authors, "The present paper provides, as View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
that superpower is, that is the cornerstone of how you contribute, whether that's in your contribution to the larger goal of some organization or in what you bring to the accomplishment of your own goals. Your capability journey lies in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman