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- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
Summing Up Implementation or "execution" can be taught. Whether business schools are the best places to do it remains a question with the readers responding to this month's column. For many, the requirements for teaching the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Ann Lucena
turn, they learned from us about marketing and business practices across the globe." This summer, Ann will take on investment banking with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York. After graduation? "I'm open to many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
ZALEZNIK: “I don’t think it’s useful for people to worry about the rules of leadership or command. I think the central concept is character and character in the uses of power.” Leadership is best studied from the inside out, declares... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
Summing Up How best is denial managed? Denial is endemic to management. It is a natural part of human nature, closely related to the survival instinct. It can be useful or disastrous. And it can be managed. That sums up at least many of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Fund Advances Global Strategy
Recognizing that the best ideas can come from anywhere and that examples of great leadership and management practice exist everywhere, HBS is extending its intellectual reach to understand these new ideas... View Details
- Web
Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
schools could lead the work of racial equity and inclusion through engagement with various learning modes. Best practices were captured for learning about and from racial differences, and innovative ideas... View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Construction Industry
information for industry practitioners and academia including best practices Construction Industry Institute Knowledge Base Smart Cities World Back to Baker Library's Sustainability Research... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
US economy has made on so many other fronts, that is really shocking. LD: And that variation in management practice is also supported by enormous variation in output prices. Given the lack of positioning, prices should be a lot more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
like. The emphasis will be on teaching practical skills for leaders who seek to best leverage their own talent and that of the women they work with. Male and female case protagonists will come to the... View Details
- Web
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive Course Number 1507 Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 sessions Paper This short version of BSSE will focus... View Details
- Profile
Behrad Mahdi
efforts and provide incentives." Seeking a more sustainable leadership experience, he became a special assistant to the founders of City Year. Learning leadership through regular practice "Working at the national level,"... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
on refining best practices for future conference hosts, including how to identify sponsors and define their role and how to provide consistency in the areas of marketing and promotion. They will also work on... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jorge-Luis Leon
“Maybe you should consider other options.” These were the first words I heard after finishing my first SAT practice test. The dream of studying in a U.S. college started to crumble before my eyes. I listened to them say how I might not be... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
With the help of HBS’s Japan Research Center, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion to mark the 10-year anniversary of an annual Immersive Field Course in Japan. A decade ago, a group of 22 MBA students from Japan asked Professor of Management View Details
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Raymond Hwang
Why spine surgery? “Spine surgery has an appealing and somewhat unique set of characteristics. There is a great deal we have yet to understand about spine-related disorders, making the practice and research of spine care both challenging... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Committed To HBS’s Success
added to his MBA fellowship fund, which has benefited about 50 students from the San Francisco area since it was established in 1990. “HBS aims to be close to practice,” says Tukman. “Often in business, practice leads the way and theory... View Details
- Portrait Project
Michael Murphy
mate!" Something about the Olympic movement lit a fire inside me. Olympians were my heroes. I wanted to become one. "Citius, Altius, Fortius" - "Swifter, Higher, Stronger" - became my daily mission. Eventually, after eight years and 135,750... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
the generally superior returns generated by private equity firms? The answer is delivered in Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use (HBS Press, 2008) by Bain & Co. chair Orit Gadiesh (MBA ’77) and Bain partner Hugh MacArthur. The authors argue that many... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
PORTER WITH RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME: Beyond best practices, understanding principles of global health-care delivery. It’s no surprise to find HBS professor Michael Porter meeting with powerful people who seek his ear and prize his... View Details