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Franklin R. Anderson Classroom, Aldrich Hall 11 | About

Rothschild and Franklin Anderson chose Aldrich Classroom 11 since they wanted to honor their most influential professor George Von Peterffy who taught PBE (Planning in the Business Environment) in that classroom. Nathaniel de Rothschild... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders

event hosted by the SEI and several student clubs, Whitehead spoke with HBS students at a session titled “John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership,” moderated by HBS professor of management practice Bill George.... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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A Message to Our Readers

That first issue—a modest eight pages long—included a message to alumni from Dean Wallace B. Donham; HBS club news; a report on a dinner honoring the School’s legendary benefactor, George F. Baker; synopses of several cases in the... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Making a Difference in the World

consider ancient Rome to be the largest city before 19th century London,14 George Modelski considers medieval Baghdad, with an estimated population of 1.2 million at its peak, to be the largest city before 19th century London.13 Others... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions A Concrete Symbol The Exhibition Introduction Educating Business Administrators Core Body of Knowledge A Separate... View Details

13 Feb 2023
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Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science

Ernesto Bertarelli (right) joins HMS Dean George Q. Daley and Harvard University President-elect Claudine Gay on the HMS campus in the courtyard of Building C, which will be enclosed to create a new skylighted atrium, thanks to a... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

her husband in 1839. In addition, he learned that in the early 1900s, the plantation had been owned by Mary Clark Thompson, who is said to have been romantically linked with George F. Baker after both were... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Mar 2021
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Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition

National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was named one of "Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years" by PBS. Mr. George received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high... View Details

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How to Survive a Company Scandal You Had Nothing to Do With

By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, George Serafeim and Robin Abrahams

Keywords: Misconduct; Reputation; Human Capital

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July – August 2011
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What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, Nitin Nohria and George Serafeim

A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Forecasting and Prediction; Industry Growth; Judgments; Performance; Valuation; Price; Quality; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Competency and Skills; Surveys

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10 Jun 2015
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The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

01 Dec 1997
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Fall Reunions Stimulate and Revitalize

Lab. Members of the African American Alumni Association gather for a reception in Gallatin. Alan J. Strassman (MBA 1962), 35th Reunion chairman, welcomes classmates and their guests. Valerie and John E. McConnaughy (MBA 1952) chat with 45th Reunion chairman View Details

17 Apr 2019
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Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019

Alumnae Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009) and Aileen Lee (MBA 1997) were selected for the Time 100—the magazine’s annual list of most influential people. Jennifer Hyman (photo by George Etheredge) Jennifer Hyman... View Details

01 Jul 2018
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

Das Narayandas and Nitin Nohria (photo by Susan Young) Das Narayandas and Nitin Nohria (photo by Susan Young) Through the Harvard Business School Campaign we positioned the School to deepen its impact on... View Details

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Awards | Commencement 2025

Alumni Achievement Award Recipients Baker Scholars Students whose combined academic performance in both years puts them in the top 5% of their MBA class graduate with high distinction and are known as Baker Scholars, named after the School’s initial benefactor, View Details

01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader

highly successful CEOs basked in near celebrity status conferred by the media, George dodged the limelight and steadfastly insisted that he didn’t create anything. He just made it possible for others to do... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Sep 2020
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HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

This week, Dean Nohria shared the School’s Action Plan for Racial Equity in a letter to the HBS community. “The horrifying murder of George Floyd, and an all too long history of similar injustices, has spurred our collective awakening to... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business

Photos by Webb Chappell Related Links Who Was George F. Baker? Priscilla Anderson demonstrating photo conservation techniques. Stepping into the workaday world of Priscilla Anderson is like taking a step... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

07 May 2025
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Scaling New Heights

Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2011
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Downtime

by the late Harvard minister Peter Gomes. Daniel Deronde, because there’s no limit to how George Eliot can deepen our sense of our own humanity. I’ll also finish C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, which is a... View Details

Keywords: fiction; Christianity

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