John Shad (MBA 1949) - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
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Fellowships Have Impact

More than 500 fellowship donors and recipients gathered on April 21 in Shad Hall for the annual MBA Fellowship Dinner. (photo by Susan Young) “The generosity of donors has acted as a quiet reminder to me to... View Details

25 Apr 2018
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success

John Rice (MBA 1992) founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit organization, to equip underrepresented minorities with the skills, coaching, and relationships they need to become high-impact leaders in... View Details

30 Jan 2018
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Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson. The HBS cohort includes: Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005), president and CEO of Reliance Methods, a consulting firm that provides human capital strategy and placement solutions for Fortune 500 clients, and author of Just Change: How to... View Details

23 Oct 2019
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Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and implement a complex process to produce electronic circuit boards. During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

01 Sep 2005
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New Art

match the usual expectations of ivy-covered brick buildings connected by orderly pathways, a look inside any one of those buildings reveals a less traditional scene. Wander up to the second floor of Shad Hall, for example. Gracing one... View Details

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

01 Dec 2016
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Takeaways

leads to action that produces needed results.” —Professor emeritus John Kotter (DBA 1972), That’s Not How We Do It Here!, a book written in fable form “It is now possible to build a new sort of firm that promotes open communication across... View Details

23 Oct 2019
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Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society

John Shad Professor of Business Ethics. Student feedback on Viewpoints was very positive. “It shed light on a lot of wider political-economic issues . . . [and] encouraged us to think about what we, as HBS... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

24 Apr 2020
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Spreading the Love

Photos courtesy of Lovepop Photos courtesy of Lovepop When Lovepop cofounders Wombi Rose and John Wise (both MBA 2015) heard Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s entreaty for businesses to assist with... View Details

01 Dec 2000
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Faculty News

of Business Administration André F. Perold George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking Roy D. Shapiro Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration Richard S. Tedlow MBA Class of 1949 Professor of... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

27 May 2014
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Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

Levi Belnap, MBA 2013 Roman Belotserkovskiy, MBA 2009 Kelly Bennett, MBA 2008 Varun Bhartia, MBA 2014 Rajesh Bilimoria, View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

Change: Paris, and the Road Ahead,” with students in a Business, Government, and the International Economy class in spring 2019. (photo by Kavita Pillay) “Climate Change: Paris, and the Road Ahead,” a case taught in the MBA Program’s... View Details

30 Nov 2019
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Land of the Rising Scrum

Japan for the Rugby World Cup, their first trip to Asia. John O'Donnell MBA 1977 and Harvard College alumnus Eugene Skowronski John O'Donnell MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2014
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Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

Professors Leonard and Rangan One of the benefits of starting a new initiative within an academic institution is the chance to set transformational ideas into motion. In 1993, when then-Dean John McArthur and View Details

Keywords: SEI

01 Mar 2019
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In Character: A Case Discussion Drama

What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value, students adopt different... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

John Jong-Hyun Kim (MBA 1993) saw the School pivot its entire MBA and doctoral curriculum to an online model in just ten days—a move informed by years of experience developing HBS Online, the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

01 Sep 2007
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Last Look

Section I in the photo. Alas, close but no cigar! And thanks to classmates Mark Bell, John Davis, Melinda Muth, Jeremy Silverman, and Bruce Young, who identified MBA ’81, Section A, in the photo. Davis... View Details

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

22 Mar 2011
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Maximum Cities

neighborhoods in Bombay go without it for six hours at a stretch, Nohria remarked. Cities, he continued, "are the perfect laboratory to study these issues." Sponsored by HBS's Business and Environment Initiative and cochaired by Professors Rebecca Henderson, View Details