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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture across the river during this... View Details
- June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research
By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Teaching Note for 109017. View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Levers Of Control; Strategy; Risk Management; Decisions; Cooperative Ownership; Product Development; Moral Sensibility; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Expansion; Science-Based Business; Research; Management Practices and Processes; Business Subsidiaries; Biotechnology Industry; Sydney
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times by Nancy Koehn, to be published by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Printed by permission. Back to the Future Looking to leaders, then and now Why should we look to the past and... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Verdell Walker, Sesame Workshop
HBS, I worked as an equity research analyst at Goldman Sachs and as a strategy analyst in the advertising sales division of The Wall Street Journal. My stint in finance helped me develop my analytical and research capabilities. Working at... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
talking to classmates, I found that the experience of losing status impacted them strongly.” Her observations might have ended there had she not taken CareerLeader, a business career self-assessment survey, just prior to matriculation and... View Details
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Swire Beverages: Implementing CSR in China
By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [410021]. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Health; Organizational Design; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Safety; Natural Environment; Brands and Branding; Interests; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; China
- 2011
- Working Paper
From Single Deals to Negotiation Campaigns
By: David A Lax and James K. Sebenius
Negotiation scholars typically take the individual deal, or a few linked deals, as the unit of analysis. While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Framework; Business Subsidiaries; Agreements and Arrangements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Information Management; Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Lax, David A., and James K. Sebenius. "From Single Deals to Negotiation Campaigns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-046, December 2011.
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
faculty development efforts.” Garvin worked closely with HBS professors Dwight B. Crane, Thomas J. DeLong, and Janice H. Hammond and Executive Director of the Division of Research and Faculty Development Valerie Porciello (PMD 77, 2002)... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
To cap his already impressive business career, David Price is unabashed about his final goal. "I want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company," he declares, exuding the energy and optimism reminiscent of a newly minted MBA. Price makes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
hired to jump-start a moribund division of the investment bank. Parson’s success at generating business was offset by performance reviews from supervisors and subordinates that painted him as a poor fit in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
ASPINALL Illustration by Jack Unruh When you ask people about their great fears in life, virtually everyone talks about cancer,” says Mara G. Aspinall (MBA ’87), past president of Genzyme Genetics, a Westborough, Massachusetts-based View Details
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
assets under management, in the U.S. In an industry where just six percent of the partners in venture capital firms are women, finding a successful firm run by a woman is more than unusual. But unusual is nothing new for Farrington. Having graduated from Harvard View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
government officers at the national and subnational levels and, while they show a lot of enthusiasm, the actual implementation has been slow.” Despite this, I Create has set up a business incubation center in partnership with a View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Web
From Concept to Product | Baker Library
cameras and films. Morse worked with her colleagues to establish the black-and-white division of the plant in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company’s new manufacturing site that was built to meet the growing demand for Polaroid films. “You,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
differentiation: de-emphasizing the strategic orientation their main rival is emphasizing. Finally, we show that the greater the competitive intensity, the greater the contribution strategic orientation differentiation has on business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 1992 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Edward Prewitt
Allied-Signal, Inc., one of the world's oldest chemical companies and today a diversified conglomerate, is liable for clean-up costs of old hazardous waste sites. These costs are substantial: reserves grew to nearly $500 million in 1991. Attempting to avoid further... View Details
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Environmental Sustainability; Programs; Cost Management; Policy; Government Legislation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Governance Compliance; Legal Liability; Chemical Industry; United States; Europe
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Edward Prewitt. "Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk." Harvard Business School Case 793-044, October 1992. (Revised August 1994.)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
Pay Check: Equity-Based Compensation and Incentives Creativity in a Crunch Nobody's Perfect. Now What? Last spring, a special symposium was held on campus in celebration of faculty research. The one-day event, sponsored by the Division of... View Details
- Web
Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Kress Library of Business and Economics, written by Ruth Rogers, then curator of the Kress Library at Baker Library. The images selected by Ms. Rogers for inclusion in the catalog represent the major thematic View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
external watchdogs—security analysts, credit-rating agencies, and regulatory agencies—fail to bark? What actions can prevent Enron-type breakdowns in the future? Innovation Corrupted addresses each of these questions. A Sense of Urgency Author:John P. Kotter... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace