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- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
By Beth Stewart (MBA 1982), CEO Trewstar Corporate Board Services and Ilene H. Lang (MBA 1973), retired CEO, Catalyst and senior advisor to Trewstar We take as given that modern, well-run boards recognize myriad reasons to include diverse... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
of employees and what will help build a cohesive organization with a single set of ethical standards going forward." Be Prepared In management ranks, Professor Michael Beer, an expert in organizational effectiveness and change, has too... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Off Your Shoes: One Man’s Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back by Ben Feder (MBA 1991) Radius Book Group A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
the course is to learn to use well-researched causal theories about strategy, innovation, and management to understand why things happen the way they do in businesses, and to predict which tools, strategies, and methods will and will not be View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
from different points of cultural reference, they learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. Paine points out that students taking her course also develop a business philosophy and a set of values that... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
how seismic events in industry—such as the founding, merger, and dissolution of companies—have a ripple effect on the opportunities available to individuals. What Higgins has done recently, though, is to get at what she calls a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
class and outside my class—that whole network is working for me to make a difference," says Morrison. Morrison has been making an impact since 2010, when she assumed the CEO role at the Council for Economic Education, based in New York... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
explored questions like “How can business, government, and nonprofit leaders come together to mitigate the effects of worker displacement? How should entrants to the workforce best prepare themselves?” Leaders from the City of San... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
will and will not be effective in the various circumstances in which our students find themselves. We integrate a unique understanding of strategy formulation with practical solutions to the execution challenges faced by general managers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
the White House hosted a conference on the topic, says Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997), CEO of Boston-based Social Finance US. Inspired by Cohen’s work with Social Finance in the UK, Palandjian in January 2011 led the creation of the sister... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
"Early in life," says Bennie Wiley, "I learned an important guiding principle: look for ways to exercise your values." As president and CEO of The Partnership, an organization designed to open doors for minority professionals in the city... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)
and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Harvard Business School (HBS). During her time at Harvard, Zutshi discovered the power of entrepreneurship and translation of novel technology. Within a year of leaving Harvard, Zutshi had founded and become View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous doctors, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. Our analyses reveal that the long-term persistence effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
Clubs News Clubs News Outgoing HBSA Pittsburgh President Bill Slivka (MBA 1976) (left) stands with guest speaker Michael McGarry (AMP 169 2005), Chairman and CEO of PPG, at the Association's Annual Meeting. Outgoing HBSA Pittsburgh... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
product sped up the process of creating and following up on sales pitches, which resulted in 10 times more meetings for GroupTalent’s two sales reps, Medina says. But the influx of interest overwhelmed the small startup, and they were unable to View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) is CEO and cofounder of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, she talks about the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
interactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell other fee business. These effects are additive. A one standard deviation increase in both bank relationship strength and cross-selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne