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- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
advantages to having certification, I believe that it would be impractical...Unlike law or medicine, business knowledge is not easily quantified." Others objected to the idea that certification might somehow be a good response to the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
society more broadly,” observes HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. While celebrated for their public accomplishments, the honorees’ private lives reflect their devotion to family and community. We present glimpses of both in photos by Pulitzer... View Details
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- Profile
Elsa Sze
“But I also see that the business community has so much potential to do good while achieving business objectives.” With a will to reconcile business and government, and profit motives with social ones, Elsa is pursuing the joint MBA/MPP... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
You're only as good as your job title? Apparently so, if you're the director of a major company. A corporate governance precept currently in vogue calls for outside directors to offer to resign if they change (or lose) their jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
locations in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, a focus on price-sensitive customers, and a much narrower range of healthy beverages, so this product could stand out more. This might provide a good test of the product’s appeal to a different... View Details
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Maura Sullivan
coming home." After five years in the Corps, including a seven-month tour of duty in Iraq where she managed multiple operations, Maura returned home eager for greater responsibility. "I knew I wanted something in management and regarded the private sector as... View Details
- Fast Answer
Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design
used to analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and private companies. Individual accounts needed. Note: Follow the access instruction on the page before accessing. LSEG Workspace Company Overview... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials The Chase Sapphire Reserve card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016. But what would be JP Morgan's next act be? State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders Index funds are the major shareholders in many large-... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
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Mark Gundersen
of about two-hundred case discussions so far and have been able to see trends: what makes a good management team; what distinguishes wise decisions; which type of strategies tend to succeed." "I've learned as much or more from... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
for 10 years, taking over as CEO in 2011. Match has a three-pronged approach: it runs a system of six public charter schools, manages its own master's degree-granting graduate school of education, and operates a publishing arm that... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
reviews throughout the years indicated that overall product quality remained consistent post-merger. "Though goods become more similar, they do not consistently increase or decrease in quality level," Sheen writes in the paper,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2014
- News
Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS
could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure the disease’s progression... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
the private sector has responded rationally, by exiting the business. Of the twenty-five companies that made vaccines in the U.S. thirty years ago, only five remain today. The Federal Government has, regrettably, permitted this to happen by not treating vaccines as a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
in Persian carpets sees a desirable one on eBay. Many bidders may not be able to tell the difference between valuable carpets and cheap imitations, and so if they can identify that a dealer is bidding on a particular carpet, that will tell them that it is a View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
across the country. This January, we had the good fortune to travel to India for one of Harvard Business School’s Immersive Field Courses (IFCs), focusing on “Decarbonizing while Developing.” It was a unique opportunity to understand how... View Details
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
Challenging a concerning proposal Jordan studies how individuals and organizations manage their reputations. This research asked whether the desire to look good in the eyes of others might motivate people to indiscriminately share news... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Transforming Health Care Delivery
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