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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
researched how to fix broken global teams. “They may not be able to completely reassure workers about what will happen tomorrow, but they can provide a glimpse of the big picture from their perspective,” says Neeley, who is writing a case about a leader of a US company... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
offered at most colleges. So, I settled and went to the Naval Academy to just fly jets. How I ended up underwater is a much longer story. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, a couple hundred men I helped train are View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
Ramanna, who holds appointments as the Henry B. Arthur Fellow, supporting the research and teaching of business ethics, and as a Marvin Bower Fellow, helping faculty launch innovative new business agendas. "Capitalism delivers on certain normative goals such as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost fifty years, we theorize a link between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
teach by the case method in new and different modalities. These were huge lifts for our IT and operations teams and for our faculty and students, and we failed fast (and often) many times before we were satisfied. But we also learned a... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
entrepreneurial ventures. It's a field in constant change, which often creates significant opportunity." The Evergreen Challenge Heritage and prestige are the hallmarks of many luxury brands, some of which are hundreds of years old. The View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
background, and they have a good idea of what they want to do with that experience when they get here." The flexibility and freedom of academia has an entrepreneurial appeal that is extremely rewarding for those who want to set their own... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
available + More Info – Less Info After spreading rapidly in the late 20th century, democracy has been on the defensive around the world—and arguably receding—in the 21st century. This represents a profound threat to freedom and... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
Karim Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) is CEO of Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecom provider, with nearly 6 million active subscribers. Before the company began operations in 2003, phone calls were a luxury that few citizens could afford; the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- News
Dedicated to a public service mission
Western Pacific deployments during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, then joined the private sector at Caustic Soda and, more recently, Dow Solar. Outside the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
valuation of US$10.7 billion, Bharti purchased from Zain, a Kuwaiti firm, its mobile operations in 16 African nations. “It would have taken us years to achieve Zain’s scale,” Mittal explains. “Furthermore, our business model fit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
(HBS ’05), Captain, U.S. Army Served in Kuwait and Iraq from February to July 2003, providing intelligence and threat analysis in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
create the conditions that allow everyone else in an organization to realize their own potential and power. When done well, as the authors explain in the following excerpt, leadership is about creating an impact that endures even in your... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
other words, the more labor treaties a country signs, the more likely it will live up to its promises. Another factor that had a significant effect on factory performance was the degree of freedom of the press in the country. To measure... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Portrait Project
Soma Mukherjee
I remember the words that graced the entrance to the Operating Room in my grandfather's nursing home in Calcutta: "I expect to pass through this world but once... any kindness that I can show... let me do it now... for I shall not... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
and mesmerizing formations in the sky called murmurations. “For us,” Keshani says, “these whimsical birds represent the feeling of freedom and strength we hope to bring to our community—a constant reminder that, together with our flock,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Giving Back to Help The Next Generation
game-changer for me,” says Sergio. “That was critical in my decision to pursue an MBA at HBS.” The former engineering major from Chicago left her operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
noted that the United States has failed in its attempts to protect encryption techniques as a national military asset. Content remains the most difficult area to control and thus promises to be the enduring View Details