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30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

to fellow alumni of the GLSA has proven to be lifelong. There’s a deeper layer of connection with people who’ve gone through similar experiences, and to have that bond mashed together with the aspiration of being business leaders—that’s been the View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Feb 2019
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New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

committed $10 million from their family foundation to endow the new program. The gift is in honor of Tom’s 30th and 35th HBS Reunions. A collaboration between HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences... View Details

July 2020
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King's College Hospital in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom

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24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

distribution operations of personnel and supplies for large-scale training exercises and deployments. It was a foundational experience that ultimately drove me to HBS—I realized that I could be, and wanted to be, a leader. What was your... View Details

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

more effective teachers. “There’s a big opportunity to really upscale and certify them,” Gupta says. At the same time, Rocket provides educational tools and content that teachers can share with parents to reinforce foundational skills at... View Details

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

sectors of a developed economy cannot. He says, "jobs that create wealth are the absolute foundation for any economy this excludes most of the 'non-tradable' (largely personal service) jobs." While manufacturing jobs are among the most... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

with the near-impossible job of drug discovery and development.” Back to top Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) COO and Treasurer, Ford Foundation Founder, Moms of Black Boys United In my solitude: “I was born in Rome, Georgia. I’m an... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

2013
Working Paper

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

By: Richard L. Nolan

This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention

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06 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

and the title of a second-year course he teaches at HBS. "At the foundation of finance is the idea that investors and managers act rationally, so that capital market prices reflect fundamentals and managers respond to incentives in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

millions of viewings, and people pass it on. It seems too good to be true,” says John Deighton, Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration. The video is so dramatic it is likely that many viewers will investigate further. “Some... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Strategy Execution Baker Foundation Professor "Strategy Execution will equip you with the tools, skills, and frameworks to allocate resources, measure performance, manage risk, and execute strategy." Dates & Eligibility No current course... View Details

26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets 2013-15 Named Most Powerful Woman in Finance by American Banker 2016 Joins Board of Directors, Robin Hood Foundation Chief Executive Officer, J.P. Morgan Asset Management It’s hard to talk... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

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Outdoor Spaces | About

with the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center. Sebastian Kresge and the Kresge Foundation are now honored in the naming of Kresge Way. Peterson Park Peterson Park, located between Morgan Hall and Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, is named to... View Details

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Platform Competition

Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

Much of the substance of 20th century management was worked out at GM. Let's hope that crisis will summon the will to make the changes that are needed. If not, the next Detroit may be in China, and sooner than we think. Joseph L. Bower, Baker View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

technology.” We will examine 5 recently developed “godlike technologies” that have passed commercial viability and are on track to change the foundations of business and society by 2032—AI, blockchain, ubiquitous networks, synthetic... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Nicholas Otis, Rowan Clarke, Solène Delecourt, and David Holtz. 2023 Zoe B. Cullen : Recipient of a 2023 National Science Foundation Research Grant ($368,490) for "What's My Employee Worth? Information Frictions, Pay, and Pay Equity" with... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

1976, his partners elected him to the first of four three-year terms as their managing partner. Global expansion became a cornerstone of Daniel's leadership in the seventies and eighties, as he laid the foundation for the firm's... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

and Applied Sciences. “I think the combination of business and engineering is the best foundation you can get,” he notes of the curriculum, which includes required courses at HBS in the first year, and electives and curated courses at... View Details

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

seat," the pressure to provide the analysis and judgment spills over to the senior executive team members, and, in this case, the CIO. Our advice to CIOs and other senior executives is to build a foundation of trust with a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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