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- 01 Feb 1999
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Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy
empirical studies and was facilitated by an HBS faculty member. The first session, for instance, facilitated by Social Enterprise faculty chair Professor James E. Austin, focused on what drives strategy in nonprofit and nongovernmental... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
hopes in the near future to focus full time on the Renaissance empire he has built and is intent on expanding. "I get to apply my business skills to the building of the company, but my passion for it hasn't diminished at all," he says.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
created an industrial empire in Hamilton, Ohio, that employed thousands, including hundreds of poor whites who came from Kentucky to southeastern Ohio to find work. And it’s the story of three of his sons, who went on to run Fortune... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
He demonstrates capitalism's ability to create wealth for societies through innovation but cautions that global capitalism's history has been associated with enormous divergence in the wealth of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, a gap only now... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Room to Write
Risk-Takers & Rule-Breakers “When I’m in New York City, I write at my old mahogany dining table, facing the Empire State Building.” —Alicia Whitaker (MBA 1979), Sidewalk Gardens of New York Return to The Year in Books 2016 View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Supplying Demand
company's leader is justifiably proud: twelve years ago, he was minding one store - located just down Soldiers Field Road from HBS. Today, he oversees an empire of almost one thousand stores - not bad for someone who was unemployed only... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II. As the supreme commander for the Allied Powers, he was charged with transforming a defeated, militarist empire into a beacon of peace and democracy. A career military... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
“American” business when talking about companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Starbucks. Yes, America rose to astounding power beginning in the late nineteenth-century and now this influence is declining. As it did for the British Empire in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Michael Gilbert (MBA ’67) (Hunter Press) Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them by Grant Gordon (OPM 30, 01) and Nigel Nicholson (Kogan Page) The American Military after 9/11: Society, State, and View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
relations in the organizational and industrial setting. And for the School, the two men helped set in place what was to become the cornerstone of HBS’s academic foundation: field-based empirical research. View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
logic of interest representation. Based on empirical case studies, Trumbull develops an alternative model of interest representation involving "legitimacy coalitions" forming around narratives that tie their agenda to a broader public... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
that department stores organized cosmetics by brand, making comparisons difficult, she was determined to offer consumers a better option. “I wanted to build an empire in the beauty industry,” says Beck, who oversees Bluemercury’s 195... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
was to provide empirical data answering these questions." In the course of his research, Austin surveyed nearly ten thousand of the School's MBA and Executive Education graduates, held eleven focus groups with managers, interviewed more... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
VLACHOUTSICOS Photo courtesy of Charalambos Vlachoutsicos The year 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the seismic event that symbolized the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of communist rule in Russia... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
"Tobin tax" on financial transactions? Claire Martin (AMP 175, 2008), VP, Renault, France I'm skeptical for three reasons. First, empirical evidence indicates such taxes have raised little revenue and have simply relocated trading rather... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
the years my research has been increasingly focused on consumer finance, combining case studies, empirical projects, and experiments — the latter often in conjunction with Commonwealth, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
be invited to more parties or other cool events. What got you interested in this research? I've always been fascinated by the entertainment industry. I was trained as an empirical modeler—I develop econometric models to analyze data.... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
but when a developer is clearly trying to do the right thing, you need to be willing to say ‘yes, okay.’” While acknowledging that change is inevitable, and even appropriate, in a dynamic international city such as New York, Zuckerberg qualifies that statement when he... View Details
- 12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement
research shows strong empirical evidence that diverse boards can lead to increased corporate performance. A diversity of thought, perspective, and experience makes better boards, and it’s the right thing to do.” To help build the Board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
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Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
What New York City attraction brings in more tourists each year than the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty? Why, it's FAO Schwarz, the famous toy store, of course. It's not hard to understand the draw. The flagship emporium... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso