Integrated Practice Unit - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Underwater and Sinking By James B. Lockhart (MBA 1974) Koehler Books Author James B. Lockhart is a former submarine officer with the United States Navy who went on to play a large part in the government’s response to the global financial... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

The planned growth of HBS and Harvard includes more than doubling the number of housing units in Allston, moving the American Repertory Theater to Allston, and eventually adding a new faculty building and other buildings over time as part... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

most powerful person in Boston-head of a privately held, billion-dollar company he built practically from scratch; friend and advisor to politicians of both parties, from Boston's Democratic Mayor Tom Menino to the Bay State's Republican... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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A History of Women at HBS

Training Program (1946–1955), to the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (1956–1963) — the last step before complete integration took place with the admission of eight women into the MBA Class of 1965. The faculty and... View Details

Keywords: Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2006
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Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

SCHOLAR, WRITER, TEACHER: Levitt, in a photo from 1983. His research tranformed the study and practice of marketing. The HBS community lost a legendary member of its faculty June 28 when marketing expert Theodore (“Ted”) Levitt died at... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Nov 2023
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Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican

on practical economic grounds. You want a strong economy, a strong country, and, if you’re anything like me, a strong stock market. Well, note first that stocks do better under Democratic administrations than Republican. (“You can look it... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

10 Apr 2023
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Leading the Way

with applications, recommendations, and even practice interviews. "Michael was one of our first Be A Leader grads and he's quickly become our poster child for the program's success," says Trujillo. "He became our first Be A Leader kid to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

very active in boosting the idea. We couldn’t have picked a better time to launch.” After more than a year of studying production practices and cross-country travels to acquire state-of-the-art equipment, the Turners began producing syrup... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in with View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

The decline of the community newspaper in the United States has been steep and severe. A quarter of American papers have folded in the last 15 years, and industry-wide consolidation has eviscerated the newsrooms of those that are left,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

2002, 'venture philanthropy' as we know it today didn't exist, but we saw the opportunity to use business practices to create real social change," says Jacobson of the origins of Strategic Grant Partners, a coalition of 15 family... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

bookstore; small, privately owned shops were the predominant model for bookselling throughout the United States in the early 1970s. That was the original model for Borders, which also opened in 1971 with a small stock of used books in a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

it's a lot easier to turn people off than turn them on.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “I'm very optimistic about the future, particularly for the United States. Events since 1989 - the fall of the Berlin Wall, the... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

circles at Harvard," says Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS and director of Harvard's South Asia Institute (SAI). The Godrej Group has relatively strong, lengthy ties to the United States: Adi is a MIT alum, and his... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

01 Jun 2001
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On the Inside

Top billing, of course, goes to her boss, George W. Bush (MBA ’75), but Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao (MBA ’79) is also making a name for herself in the new administration. Chao, who has previously served in several government posts and as president of View Details

Keywords: Government

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in emergencies involving first responders and citizens... View Details