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- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
comprised only a fifth of the entire student body (at 22 years old, she was also one of the youngest). “Because there were so few of us, it was easier to catch the attention of whichever professor, to have the chance to speak when we raised our hand,” she says. In her... View Details
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Field Course: Climate Solutions Lab - Course Catalog
deploy the tools we already have, like solar and wind, faster and smarter. And finally, we need to create and roll out breakthrough technologies that can take us the rest of the way.” Bill Gates in “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”... View Details
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Harvard Business School
HBS. We were the first student group at HBS formed on some basis other than professional aspirations." 7 Darden is Professor in Organizational Theory and Management, Emeritus at Pepperdine University's School of Business. He is author of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
Assistant Professor Rawi E. Abdelal began his talk on “Politics of Identity in the Post-Soviet World” by showing a photograph of a monument located near Vilnius in Lithuania. The pyramidal object marks the point that Lithuanians say puts... View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
the octogenarian billionaire oilman, says it’s time to throw caution to the winds — literally. A big investor in wind power (a special research interest of HBS professor Richard Vietor), Pickens says he’s too old and too rich to care... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd. We formed a Dean’s Anti-Racism Taskforce to examine what we need to do and announced a plan to advance racial equity at the School. We must now implement this plan and show results over... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
discussions that we’ve had” The case study, written by HBS’s Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and head of the Technology and Operations Management unit, focuses on the data analysis used by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Fall Reunions Stimulate and Revitalize
reviews the 25th Reunion program with classmates. Gerald H. Dorman (MBA 1957) presents the results of a class survey. Professor F. Warren McFarlan talks with James B. Keegan (MBA 1967), 30th Reunion chairman. Alumni and guests attend a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In “UBS and Climate Change — Warming Up to Global Action?” Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
spark discussions about the critical role that business can play in solving some of the world’s biggest problems. The 20 hours of content Henderson developed highlight a variety of companies, some of which feature in cases she and View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
Fouraker was named the School's Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration in 1968. When he became the School's sixth Dean in 1970, Fouraker assumed the George Fisher Baker Professorship, an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Students Mentor Kids
GOOD BUDDIES: (from left) Todd, Richie, Rory, and William. During his time at HBS, William Pritchett (MBA ’06) learned an enormous amount from his professors and classmates. But he also learned a lot from 13-year-old Rory, a student at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
In a 2006 case he prepared about the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), HBS professor Bill Sahlman quotes HSCI cochairman and codirector of science Douglas Melton as Melton pondered the management skills... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
to General George S. Patton. Stillman is professor emeritus of management at the University of New Orleans College of Business Administration, where he taught from 1967 until 1982. He has written a total of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
care,” says Professor Richard Hamermesh, faculty chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative and an instructor in MHCD. Established in 2005, the initiative serves as a gathering point for faculty research, educational programs, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
strengthens communities.” DaVita’s focus on a “village” culture whose citizens (employees) help and care for one another may be too touchy-feely for many MBA students, says the case’s author, Professor of Management Practice View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Course Number 1350 Baker Foundation Professor Robert Simons Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper The mission of Harvard Business School is to educate... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
shipping industry, constructing patterns of return for investors. “We were shocked at how predictable the returns are in this industry.” The research results—that heavy investment in a boom depresses future earnings—were unexpected, says Greenwood, the View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
republic was failing,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration. Moss is the author of the acclaimed 2017 book Democracy: A Case Study, which grew out of a popular Harvard course he created on the history... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg