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- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
relationship with them is important." Hayley Blunden That’s a problem, since rubbing powerful colleagues the wrong way could impact “every aspect of one’s career, from opportunities for promotion to abilities to develop one’s network to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
Date: May 5-7, 2008 Faculty Chair: Arthur Segel Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: Global Change in the Built Environment What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The goals of the colloquium were to... View Details
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
special-education company in early 2019. “You have to be very deliberate and proactive to achieve this,” says Eberle Walker, who set and accomplished the same goal in a previous CEO role. “But it is important. Business needs gender... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
of guidelines to help standardize the organization of these important events. Information Technology With a goal of developing a virtual alumni community, this committee is looking at practical ways in which... View Details
- Web
Grace Kim | MBA
experience at the intersection of technology and business: Throughout high school, I led our Poolesville Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam, where we developed a patent pending device to help visually impaired individuals identify, sort, and handle... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Consortium between Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and CEDES (a public policy think tank), Argentina Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil The HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE) was founded in 1993 with the View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
items on my “wish list” for my summer internship was joining a board meeting. Thanks to video conferencing, and the Maverick and startup teams’ willingness to have additional observers, I was able to meet this goal – and then some! I... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
important questions in terms of its future strategy and mission. Should the Bank continue to focus on micro-level development initiatives, such as the Millennium Development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
fourteen years later, Rwanda is looked to as a model for the rest of Africa, not the least for its successes with public health and health-care delivery. The goal of the Global Health Delivery Project is to make the first-ever systematic... View Details
- Profile
Phil Strazzulla
other classmates. Where else can you do that? How did your overall HBS experience shape your goals & career path? HBS gave me a lot more confidence. Time and again the experience taught me that I could succeed in a competitive... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Web
The Anatomy of Fraud (TAF) - Course Catalog
for people joining or running companies, as well as private and public market investors. This course examines the most sensational global frauds of this millennium, such as Enron, FTX, and Lehman Brothers, with the following goals in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
than 6,400 alumni, Professor Robin Ely is readying a follow-up survey. Her goal is to better understand the complexities of our alumni population and delve deeper into the challenges and opportunities women face and the choices they make. View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
America's Innovation & Development Team quickly realized that it would be very difficult to conduct a diverse array of experiments within the confines of a traditionally designed bank branch. Experiments require frequent changes in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
given, a day that so many of my dead comrades would love to have?” As an infantry officer, when every decision involves life and death, you develop greater patience with small inconveniences, an understanding of what really matters, and... View Details
- Profile
Cynthia Samanian
several alumni who have offered mentorship and career advice. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? To my surprise, the HBS experience has pushed me to take more risks than I would have ever imagined.... View Details
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Anna Wang | MBA
side, I encouraged myself to learn about the other parts of building solutions, and started considering the product and business sides of ventures. I joined Datamatch's business team and learned about growth and partnerships, and worked on View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Step Forward: Incremental Improvement In 2000, Amtrak and the Pennsylvania Department of Trans-portation resolved to make the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia train route "auto-competitive" by 2015. That goal is within reach, thanks to modest... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, who studies how companies and economies explore new opportunities and generate growth. “One of the lessons relevant to both students and practitioners is that this has happened before and will happen again,” Gross says.... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
efforts are designed to reach employees at a deeper level. By engaging more of workers' total selves, organizations hope to develop staff who are more satisfied, productive, and innovative. Indeed, the manifestations of spirituality in... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- December 1998 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Vivendi (A): Revitalizing a French Conglomerate
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and John M. Turner
Examines corporate strategy for a diversified firm in the French business context. Issues include corporate governance, vision, and the management of unrelated diversification. After the company's first loss ever, the Vivendi board elected a new chairman who completed... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Telecommunications Industry; France
Montgomery, Cynthia A., and John M. Turner. "Vivendi (A): Revitalizing a French Conglomerate." Harvard Business School Case 799-019, December 1998. (Revised May 2003.)