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12 May 2022
News

Onboarding

undertaking something much more serious, leading Xerox’s entry into the Chinese market and fearlessly chastising the company’s chairman for publicizing its activities in the press. Always up for a new challenge, she also began serving on... View Details

19 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

when the choice will be implemented in the future rather than implemented immediately, a tendency we refer to as "future lock-in." We demonstrate future lock-in for decisions about donation (Study 1), organizations (Study 2), View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2011
News

The House that Howard Built

Duffy (MBA 1977), then administrative director of External Relations. Nearly a third of the survey’s respondents said they were self-employed, while almost half described themselves as “entrepreneurs.” (This cohort also reported greater... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through wireless public pay phones at... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

Web

Oral Histories | Baker Library

Corporation. Later she moved to a Director of Public Relations position with The Architects Collaborative in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She led public relations for architect John Carl Warnecke in Washington,... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

employment were dim after decades of making madeleines in one of Caen’s last factories, a building that had survived two world wars. The occupation was widely covered in the French media, with public sentiment favoring the no-nonsense... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

Harvard College in 1950 and working as a reporter for the Boston Herald, he signed on at the U.S. Department of Labor (he has been a card-carrying member of three different unions) for several years before making an unsuccessful run... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

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Print View - Course Catalog

General Management John Dionne Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Finance Sara Fleiss Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Startup Operations Entrepreneurial Management Christina Wallace Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while serving... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Apr 2016
First Look

April 12, 2016

higher average value. Using data on 165,410 projects posted on Kickstarter (2009–2015), we report findings consistent with the model's predictions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50821 Pay Now or... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

than speeches, appeals for better teamwork, and mission or value statements. Consider the case of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, a $1 billion company, whose story was researched and reported by Professor Jennifer Chatman at the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

that was poorly conceived, inadequately reviewed, discriminatory, counterproductive, and fundamentally anti-American” After reading the petition and the news reports on the executive order, the decision was fast and easy. President... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

by collective determination. The consulting report sponsored by the New York City Partnership notes "a rare depth of commitment among New York's business leaders" to promoting, and remaining in, the city. John Chalsty, who worked on the... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

November 2017
Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details