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- 01 Jun 2014
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Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
ferocious during the summer when the city turns into a concrete sauna. Outside my former office at Gulag Sachs, if you tilted your head at just the right angle and paid careful attention, you'd get a strong whiff of anxiety from desperate... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
of African Americans enslaved by the Cherokee, as well as those born into unions of the two groups. The Freedmen had struggled for decades to establish their rights as Cherokee citizens, and briefly gained those View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Building business for a better Brazil
Heinz, and Burger King. “Create a big dream. Keep it simple, easily understood, and measured. Attract the right people who work well together. Measure results consistently,” says Lemann. “You can create, run, or improve anything with this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
we’ve completely gutted the right of workers to organize in the private sector, to be heard in the workplace, which is a fundamental human right. That needs to be restored. Not just because it’s a fundamental human right, but because it... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Realizing a Dream
a liberal arts degree at night while working in the family heating and cooling business. Initially the idea of a Harvard education seemed both unnecessary and far-fetched to Ferrara, but the more he learned about HBS, the more intrigued he became. “The program was... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
locations of natural phenomena such as mountains and rivers, there are lucky and unlucky places and orientations for buildings; there are auspicious and inauspicious locations for rooms; there are even right and wrong places for objects... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
playbook, but it has cultivated an additional source of revenue: the sale of conservation easements. Lyme Timber buys pieces of land targeted by conservation groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land, which pay the company to relinquish its... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
various courses by getting regularly from industry problems which are current and illustrative?” By 1923, two-thirds of the School’s courses were taught by the case method, supported by field-based research that had already begun to influence business scholarship and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Greenland, thereby earning the right to name it. He chose "Minarjnik," a contraction of the names of his wife, Mrinalini Mani, and two sons, Nikhil and Arjun. A memorial service was held in February at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
women has to meet much higher expectations than I did." But based on her own career, Graham did offer five personal qualities that are essential for enduring leadership: strong personal values; self-confidence; courage and tolerance in the face of failures; the ability... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Dan Fenn
When Bulletin editor Deb Blagg asked if I would do a short piece for this special 75th anniversary issue, I said yes immediately. Sounds fun and easy, I thought. I was right about the former and dead wrong about the latter. Where to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Fenn
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
associate dean for Planning and University Affairs, teaches financial management. Reprinted from The Washington Post, October 21, 2008. All rights reserved. Edited for space. View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a regulation bubble. As agencies and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
world," she says. "There was this dichotomy that, on one hand, a pile of e-waste contains 100 to 200 times as much gold as you can find in ore from the ground, yet in the absence of the right processes, you weren't able to tap into this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
people in dedicating a year to national service far outpaces the number of available slots. In 2009, Congress passed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act to expand the opportunities provided through the federal agency that oversees Ameri-Corps, but then put funding... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
as the "crown prince of a Swiss industrial dynasty," Ernesto Bertarelli took over as CEO of his father's company, the Ares-Serono Group, right after graduating from HBS. It was a natural progression: his father, Fabio Bertarelli, had... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
The baby-boom generation of leaders grew up in the 1960s, when “there was no sense of common sacrifice,” he explained. “I think the group has become too self-indulgent. They became more takers than givers.” Rising to her own defense, Kanter remarked: “I don’t think we... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 07 Feb 2019
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A Course Correction at Chris-Craft
president and CEO—notes that plans include expanding the plant and the payroll as well as the customer base. “There are parts of the market we don’t participate in and we're going to be able to migrate into those. Right now, we compete... View Details