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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
Fischer It’s been a busy — and productive — spring for the dedicated volunteers who make up the Alumni Association Board of Directors. I want to quickly recap the highlights. The Global Leadership Forum Committee, chaired by Jean-Marc... 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to create and maintain a defensive... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Voice of Experience A lot of people think that dot-coms in Asia are just taking U.S. technology and replicating the same business models. That may have been a valid criticism in the past, but things are really changing.” The speaker is David Lane, an HBS senior... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the service experience requires excellence—but not in everything
Everyone knows what bad service feels like—and that’s something Frances Frei, Professor at HBS, wants to fix. Making the service experience better for everyone, from customers to employees, begins with understanding the services customers... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001)
Business and Environment Initiative colleagues into a 90 min discussion with the following four (simplified) takeaways: 1. We Understand Climate Science - the scientific drivers and facts surrounding our climate are quite well understood... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their web links. Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals without Mandates Associate Professor Michel Anteby studied his own... View Details
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Online Learning Track Programs | HBS Online
which can bolster your resume and signify to employers your commitment to professional growth and lifelong learning. In the process, you’ll build a global network and cultivate skills you can immediately apply to advance your career,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Illustration by Dana Smith Debora Spar In preparation for the official launch of HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) in October, the School drew upon the findings of the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
relatively young leaders. It’s a huge priority to understand what motivates and concerns them,” she notes. Curry says she values great leadership and agrees with Dean Nitin Nohria’s observations about the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
Portnet a global standard, particularly as the state-run corporation expands overseas. It now has about ten port ventures in seven countries. Khoo reckons that within the next six years, more than a third of PSA’s business will come from... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
that cannot be satisfactorily explained using aggregate techniques, but a great deal can be learned by in-depth studies over time. That's one reason why business history can be so important in understanding the really fundamental issues... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
are committed to making progress both in working sessions and between meetings. Here is a status report on each committee. Global Alumni Issues This committee is looking at the results of a survey of international alumni, trying to View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
the importance of the relationship between a firm and the government of the country in which it is based, particularly in the context of the WTO, where the unflagging support of the government is essential to success. A third issue is for managers to View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
appointed Representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza last year. She also serves as Assistant Director-General for the Communicable Diseases Cluster. With so much at stake, what keeps Chan focused? “A sheer passion for View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
and articles, and then eventually given form by written documents that stated its values,” says Hammer. “Since then, generations of writers—whether they be poets or novelists, speechwriters or journalists—have embellished and shaped what America means. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
The Last Tycoon, and other stories, he addresses issues leaders face, such as the soundness of their vision, their readiness to take on responsibility, the depth of their compassion, and their ability to manage success. Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
nice," Stevenson quipped. In the new world order, Stevenson said, here are the keys: Hire great people; take a pass on the mediocre Understand and use technology Think globally Don't believe your own... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration comes into these firms, the firm's native workforce is becoming younger on its own. That suggests that the immigrant's complementarity with younger natives is shifting the relative demands for labor within the firm." View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
earthquake killed thousands of area residents. "He talked about dozens of families walking from farmer to farmer, asking to find chrysanthemum flowers used for funerals," student Kazumasa Mukae (HBS MBA '14) recalls. "His View Details