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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Leading the Way
Jim McNerney (MBA 1975) is the retired chairman of the Boeing Company and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he discusses his experience as a leader of two of America’s top companies and the lessons he hopes to pass on to others.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students in both the MBA and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
Meeting the Press: Dean Jay Light accompanied by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, answers reporters' questions I am honored by the selection and enthusiastic about the task ahead,” Jay Light said at an April 24 press conference with Harvard University President... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
Famed designer Donna Karan's keynote closed the Retail & Luxury Goods Club's annual conference, but some of the 400 attendees wanted more: Karan reportedly stuck around to chat with students for more than an hour and a half. Former US women's hockey star Angela... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The 'multiplier effect' of supporting education
André Jakurski (MBA 1973), founding partner/managing director of JGP Asset Management, and his wife, Maria, generously support various organizations that provide direct services in Rio de Janiero as well as educational institutions, including his alma maters—HBS and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs take their business acumen on the road
H icham Mhammedi Alaoui (MBA 2014) didn’t want to spend the summer of 2013 working in a corporate office. Instead, he and three HBS classmates cofounded MBAs Across America (MBAxAmerica), a movement to send teams of pioneering MBAs out on the road to learn from and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
“Even incremental small wins can contribute to what we call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor. Amabile’s current research focuses on the psychology of everyday work life: how events in the workplace influence subjective... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Gift of Gab
For the second year running, Jin (“PJ”) Kim (MBA 2006) won the HBS Public Speaking Competition. Kim and seven others were selected as finalists from a preliminary group of nearly forty MBA students after each delivered a four-minute, impromptu speech on a randomly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is running dry. Based on his... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
future of higher education.” Follow Adam Enbar on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aenbar. For more information on The Flatiron School, go to http://flatironschool.com/. View Details
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
Two Valmont Industries (an international leader in infrastructure products and services) colleagues, Robert (Bob) Meaney and Richard Berkland hoped to improve the lives of small and medium-sized farmers in the developing world through modern irrigation technology. In... View Details
Keywords: Developing World; Farm; Farming; Small-scale Farmers; Agriculture; Agricultural Production; Water Management; Water; Leadership Skills; Agribusiness; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Leadership; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Ghana; Tanzania; Rwanda
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Renee Vuillaume. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-059, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- July 2010 (Revised August 2012)
- Supplement
Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (C)
A professor has an awkward exchange with a student who has prepared numeric analysis, but whose numbers do not agree with her own. View Details
Leonard, Dorothy A. "Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 911-406, July 2010. (Revised August 2012.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Etiquette and Process Puzzles of Negotiating Business in China: A Questionnaire
By: James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian
Cultural differences can affect negotiations in many ways, from influencing the basic motivations and perceptions of the players to guiding the surface aspects, such as etiquette, protocol, and process, of business interactions. Navigating the challenges of these... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance; Questionnaires; Negotiation Process; Behavior; China
Sebenius, James K., and Cheng (Jason) Qian. "Etiquette and Process Puzzles of Negotiating Business in China: A Questionnaire." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-077, December 2008.
- August 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Vicinity Corporation: Turning Web Traffic into Store Traffic
By: Frances X. Frei, David Margalit and Amanda Yelsh
Vicinity uses its Internet and m-commerce technology to help drive traffic into its customers' physical distribution outlets. The company has terrific technology and is seemingly successful in getting more consumers into its customers' stores, yet it is in a precarious... View Details
Frei, Frances X., David Margalit, and Amanda Yelsh. "Vicinity Corporation: Turning Web Traffic into Store Traffic." Harvard Business School Case 602-031, August 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
- October 1997
- Case
Paula Morton
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven, Inna Feyns, Sean D. Keohane and Linda LaGorga
An MBA student is offered a job to turn around a publishing company with little chance of survival. The student is between her first and second year at Harvard Business School (HBS). The case describes both her management philosophy and the actions taken. The document... View Details
Keywords: Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Theory; Publishing Industry
Uyterhoeven, Hugo, Inna Feyns, Sean D. Keohane, and Linda LaGorga. "Paula Morton." Harvard Business School Case 398-037, October 1997.
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
New Post for Finnegan
HBS Fund Chair Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982) has been elected to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s principal fiduciary governing board. A past president of the Harvard Alumni Association and a current member of the University’s Board of Overseers, Finnegan is the... View Details