by John W. Pratt - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

Cunningham, Ohio Governor John Kasich asked him to work with his Cabinet members to develop specific ways to help Ohio increase its shared prosperity. And at the behest of Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, he is helping to develop a... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade

01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion

and develop friendships with those outside your class as well." The academic program began early the next day and included presentations by W. Earl Sasser, Jr., the UPS Foundation Professor of Service... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Dec 2015
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Conducting Research That Influences Practice

is a fourth-year student in Marketing, one of eight doctoral programs offered by HBS. In addition to her research on consumer empowerment, she is pursuing coursework that includes the required Business Education of Scholars and Teachers... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

low prices. Corning denies the accusations. With U.S. presidential campaigns now under way, trade has emerged as a hot topic. Democratic nominee John Kerry of Massachusetts has accused the Chinese of “predatory currency manipulation” that... View Details

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

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

'59) RELATED PROFILE: World Banker, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) A key early supporter and informal advisor to Wolfensohn during the intellectual evolution of EDP was former HBS Dean John H. McArthur, an MBA classmate of Wolfensohn's,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

18 Mar 2020
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Leading Change

“Business and Climate Policy: Your Vital Role,” on February 12, 2020. Moderated by Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS and Faculty Chair of BEI, the event drew... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

03 Feb 2023
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Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

As part of the HBS Elective Curriculum, MBA students can enroll in an Immersive Field Course (IFC). These courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections and provide students with an opportunity to get out of the classroom and put the skills they’ve... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

capitalists call the Valley home. RELATED PROFILES Arthur Rock (MBA '51) A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76) Peter Wendell (MBA '76) Stacey Lawson (MBA '96) Les Vadasz (107th AMP) Gregory Slayton (MBA '90) RELATED PROFILES Arthur... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Rothschild, creator of the modern bond market; and William Lever, of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders View Details

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

to deepen the community's knowledge about topics such as U.S.-Middle East relations and terrorism, as well as country histories, key profiles, and a collection of international perspectives. By mid-September, Senior Associate Dean and MBA... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

its campus, the School acted quickly to address another critical challenge, one underscored by the murder of George Floyd and other highly publicized incidents of racial injustice in the United States: How does HBS create a culture and an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top

Art by Digital Vision Corporate leadership is a much-discussed topic these days. With financial scandals making headlines daily, the CEO hero worship that was common during the late 1990s is out and increased skepticism is in. “The... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

the June Bulletin the article “M.I.A. Boards” by John Gillespie and David Zweig (both MBA ’83). During the last 13 years of my 49-year business career, I served on seven major corporate boards involving a... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Drives Biology by W. David Lee (AMP 108, 1991), with Jeffrey Drazen, Phillip A. Sharp, and Robert S. Langer (MIT Press) Investigating a series of major biological discoveries that range from pasteurization... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Business Model: How to Seize the White Space for Transformative Growth by Mark W. Johnson (MBA 1996) HBR Press In this revised, updated, and newly titled edition of Johnson’s 2010 Seizing the White Space, he... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

students, such as the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which launched in 2003, followed by the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2011. We’re now 25 years into the annual New Venture Competition sponsored by the... View Details