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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? Over the past few weeks, we asked 600 CEOs that very question. Their responses were touching and instructive, but also daunting about the challenges leaders face at this... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
mainstay of the American economy. So questions about the current Asian economic crisis elicit from him the wry, seen-it-all-before observation that "when you expand, it's always at the wrong time." After all, Hughes points out, with View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Reinventing Pharma
2004) began her career as a research scientist. Eventually expanding her responsibilities into business development led her to HBS, where she hoped to solidify her understanding of the intersection of science and business. Following... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
he notes, “I’ve learned that day-to-day interpersonal dynamics are just as material when you’re responsible for 10,000 people as when you’re in charge of only 10.” As for what drives his business-academia pas de deux, Schlesinger, who... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Finding Their Way
The best-laid plans — even those designed and implemented by the remarkably talented alumni of HBS — are seldom immune to life's twists and turns. This is perhaps the overriding lesson that each member of the Class of 1976 has learned... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
total income. There’s also a halo effect: Anyone who uses the booth to, say, make a bank deposit might also remember to pick up shampoo or soap from her store. Reyes’s booth is one of about 600 installed in mom-and-pop stores in Mexico City; the company View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
based on Goldman Sachs, The Deal tells the story of Tom Grover (Christian Slater), a young investment banker who agrees to manage a Russian oil company deal that promises to alleviate a severe energy crisis gripping the United States. But... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
more specialists are needed to stay up to date with functional best practices. The problem that this influx of specialists creates, Cespedes says, is that fewer senior executives are responsible for integrating activities across the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
design-team member and course head Lynn S. Paine, one of ten HBS faculty members who taught LCA this year. Paine explains that after a lengthy review of the first-year offerings on managers’ responsibilities that began in 2001, the... View Details
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Gabriel Handel | About
Gabriel Handel Bio In addition to focusing on a broad range of School-wide planning and policy matters, Gabe works closely with leaders throughout HBS and Harvard University to advance special projects and explore new opportunities that... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
responsibilities include overseeing finances and operations, helping set and implement company strategy, fundraising/keeping investors updated, business development, legal work, interviewing/hiring/onboarding employees, and working... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in View Details
- November 1996
- Case
Del Webb Corporation (C), The
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
Dion and the other Del Webb directors were open to having Industrial Equity Pacific (IEP) and Webcott Holdings representation on the board. The IEP representative was perceived as reserved and lacking in sophistication. Cotter of Webcott, however, struck the directors... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Management Succession; Strategic Planning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Horizontal Integration; Conflict Management
Lorsch, Jay W., and Samanta Graff. "Del Webb Corporation (C), The." Harvard Business School Case 497-019, November 1996.
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
Aguirre, president of P&G's global feminine care division. Most companies believe that in times of crisis you have to drop your costs. That typically leads to erosion of consumer value because you actually erode your product... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
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Frequently Asked Questions | Information Technology
Frequently Asked Questions Here you can find responses to some of the most commonly asked questions about HBS Live Online Classrooms. If you don’t find the answer you’re looking for or would like to learn more about View Details
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Brendan Mosher
As part of a family running a vegetable farm in the Hudson River Valley, Brendan Mosher had dreams of going to college, playing football, and eventually running his own business. Then 9/11 struck, and Brendan felt called to serve his country, making a change in View Details
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Science out into the open - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details