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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
Manufacturing is a critical component of the American ecosystem for innovation and can be an important part of the knowledge economy. To let it erode would be a grave mistake. —Gary P. Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
concert, Prieto hops into a rented minivan parked in the loading dock behind the performance hall. A trip to a party hosted by benefactors turns into a city tour. There’s Lilette, a favorite bistro uptown, near his apartment. Prieto and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
visible component of a business with increasingly explosive, multifaceted economic aspects. Yet despite these turbulent conditions, there's no shortage of new ownership wanting to jump into the game. For example, two new baseball... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
in several major cities. Ira A. Jackson (100th AMP), the executive vice president of BankBoston, is also finding a way to turn social ideals into good business practice. Locally, Jackson is guiding the bank in its efforts to provide jobs... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
clear that if my family was going to stay in manufacturing, we would have to become globally competitive.” The Wisconsin businesses were sold in 2002, and a new company with a new strategy, Chirch Global Manufacturing (CGM), was born.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
in the rural areas of Georgia hit hardest by the epidemic. Fresh from a meeting with Georgia’s attorney general, business leaders, and law enforcement officials, Shaw told Langford about a presentation made by tech billionaire and... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
issues, as in the preceding illustration of the need to integrate supply-side and demand-side perspectives in assessing the relative viability of globally standardized and locally customized business models. Second, I think... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Past Issues - Alumni
Lambert wanted to leave behind her agricultural roots. Now, serving as the nexus for a community of farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers, she feels entirely at home. Work of Art Trading private equity for the arts, Jason... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
deep appreciation for education, one that took Ryan through his studies at Wayne State University and into the PhD program in engineering at Cornell. It was a path that ensured a secure future, but Ryan didn’t love the work. Rather than face a life of regret, he acted... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
markets is a sector notorious for its lack of differentiation between players. Once location has played out its magic, retailers tend to get squeezed in a business characterized by the infernal duo of low margin and high fixed cost. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
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they work through their toughest deals. Examples: In business and finance : Steve Schwarzman on several early make-or-break deals for Blackstone; Sarah Frey negotiates advantageous supplier deals for her tiny farm with a vindictive... View Details