orientation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

"when we tried to enlist other companies to join us in this effort, we didn't get any takers. Many viewed race relations as too explosive to touch, while others didn't consider it an issue at all." The Bottom Line With business oriented... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand

skill,” wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a business that lost its way. “They let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation business. . . .They were product... View Details

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

01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built

oriented school — who had entrepreneurship as a central focus.” Resolving the situation once and for all would become one of the major goals of McArthur’s administration. And he had an idea about who might lead the charge. In The... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

States. "Like the supermajors, we have to be global in our orientation — albeit on a smaller scale — and that includes how we manage our human resources. It can be a challenge to find skilled, multilingual employees who are willing to... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine

the foundation now for a bit over a year, and we didn’t get oriented around this personalized medicine mission until a few months in. So, more or less, we’ve been at this personalized medicine bit for about a year. I have to say the... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

Burden Hall during orientation for the January 2001 cohort. That’s where Agarwala and Varma first met. “We stayed in contact as friends over the next two years, but there was no talk of starting a business,” recalls Agarwala. He and Varma... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

teaches VCPE, maintains a strong financial orientation in the course, because he believes that the valuation of young growth companies - a complex issue often skirted in entrepreneurial education - is even more important when it involves... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

information systems tend to mirror the traditional, functionally oriented organizations that they are supposed to help transform. While purchasing the right technology is part of the answer, Coote declared, "There has to be something... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

way to be on the right side of history is to be a good-ish— rather than good—person. Good-ish people are always growing. She helps us find our “ordinary privilege,” the part of our everyday identity that we take for granted, such as race for a white person, sexual... View Details

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