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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
business leaders as they work to revitalize the region's faltering economy. "Corporate Governance: A Functional Approach," a two-day, HBSsponsored research conference held in Shanghai last July, brought together leading figures in... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
undergraduate or graduate level of education for leadership, such efforts should strive to provide a context in which individuals can draw their own conclusions regarding such topics of vital importance for future leaders. Further, courses in View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Laura Mediorreal
thinking about challenges gives insight into how they were trained, by leaders in finance, military, startups, etc. I have a more holistic view on how businesses function because my section mates share how they think every day. If you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
strengths. “During the go-go Internet years, there was pressure at Gap and Wal-Mart to treat the online operation as a separate business,” she recalls. “What we learned is that our e-commerce function needed to be an extension of what we... View Details
- Career Coach
Martin November
Marty (HBS '98) is an MD/MBA and practicing OBGYN physician who has broad expertise in the healthcare sector as the former Medical Director for Patient Safety and Risk Management at Atrius Health, Harvard Medical School teaching faculty and hospital division director,... View Details
- Career Coach
Carole Carlson
Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills, including strategy development,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
is particularly important if the firm chooses to outsource its functions and connect multiple vendors across a network. The expert must also thoroughly understand the underlying dynamics governing changes in technology and their potential... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
We prefer to think of babies as cuddly bundles of joy, but they are also products at the center of a multibillion-dollar market in adoptions and scientific conception, a market that few people acknowledge and that functions like no other.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Johnston says these four companies represent the variety of start-ups Aging2.0 is working with: Sabi improves day-to-day life by rethinking the most commonly used products and tools to elevate everyday moments with superior functionality... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
a world that they would not necessarily have been exposed to either then, or now. And gave them the foundations, and the basic functions of an organization that would allow them to move into the corporate world, or the not-for-profit... View Details
- Career Coach
Scott Renner
Scott (Wharton ’94) is an Associate Director in HBS Career Professional Development, where he manages the MBA and Alumni Career Coaching program, and serves as Sector Manager for General Management/Operations. Scott’s primary focus is coaching students and alumni... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New 1908 Society Embraces Senior Alumni
6f3368a93fbb4dc44496be5e9cf733e6 For the School’s most senior graduates, the new 1908 Society is a wish come true. In focus groups, they voiced a clear desire for more opportunities to get together. The 1908 Society’s chief function is to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
One function builds relationships with customers, another develops products, and the third oversees the operational infrastructure. Even though these activities often conflict with each other, traditionally they have been bundled together... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
asserted at the third annual HBS Workshop on Emerging Markets, held on campus last December. The two-day workshop, which attracted an impressive group of scholars from as far away as Sweden and as nearby as MIT, provided a forum to discuss how to support the efficient... View Details
- Career Coach
Nathan Lasche
them. For students interested in tech, Nathan is happy to help them understand the tech / startup industry in general, which functions and companies may be a good fit, and discuss the pros & cons of early stage startups vs... View Details
- Career Coach
Meredith Hamilton
Meredith [she/her] has served as a mentor and coach to innumerable mid-career staff as well as several CEOs in the social sector. She is committed to creating a safe space for students and alumni to explore questions of professional identity and career progression... View Details
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Polaroid Corporation Collection | Baker Library
down into the operational units of the company. These operational units include administrative, legal and patent, research and development, photographs, corporate archives, audiovisual, and consultant photographers. There are separate guides for each of these View Details
William P. Lear
the eight-track stereo cartridge. Lear’s most impressive inventions were in the field of aviation where he virtually established the market for small executive jets. His development of the autopilot function for both small and large jets... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- Profile
Patrick Connolly
community devoted to truly interdisciplinary and cross-functional learning. My choice was also largely a function of the distinctive learning model and the school's commitment to a rigorous general-management education-one that requires... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
inducing immediate execution of the order are functionally equivalent to bid and ask prices and can be solved for various transaction sizes to characterize the market maker's entire supply curve. We find considerable empirical support for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace