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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection rates. “AIDS places a dramatic spotlight on the question of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
of the School’s California Research Center. “Arthur Rock epitomizes the mission of Harvard Business School,” said Dean Clark, who stressed the importance of Rock’s professional example as well as his achievements. “We are dedicated to educating leaders who View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
whether it makes sense for their particular region. What would be a wiser strategy? States and countries, for that matter, because this also happens internationally, should look at clusters of entrepreneurial activity that are already... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
serious belt tightening. Leaders of major companies looked around and had to make cuts based on keeping people and systems in place that were critical to the business. CFO? Have to have one of those. IT?... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research and course development focusing on the intersection of strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- Profile
Erika Sanchez
things. I needed skills outside of engineering – such as persuasive communications – in order to be effective.” As an example of her determination, Erika also tackled what had been one of her biggest fears: making presentations. She... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
ask, ‘If I were to leave sales, what could I do?’ ” Burton helped her coworkers—and found her own new path when she founded Burton Strategies, in 1978. Not everyone is in a place of wanting or needing to View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
places such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore factor Feng shui into the design and construction of buildings, because its principles are widely known to make work less tedious and human... View Details
- Student-Profile
Sagar Saxena
countries are often plagued with issues like weak property rights, poor contract enforcement, corruption and rent-seeking by certain socio-economic groups which not only exacerbate misallocation in these markets but also make these... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
can fill,” she advises, “but make sure that the organization will value your contributions. Read the directors’ bios and talk with people who know them. Is it a rubber-stamp board, or do members speak their minds? Is this a View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
makes sense. They then discuss whether Rihanna represents the future of the world’s largest luxury conglomerate, LVMH. Listen Now! Cold Call Cold Call distills Harvard Business School’s legendary case studies into podcast form. Hosted by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
A BETTER MOUSETRAP: At a Magazine Luiza virtual showroom, sales staff use computers to help customers make their purchases. Photo COURTESY MAGAZINE LUIZA The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For HBS associate professor... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
two-and-a-half-day simulation puts students in charge of a brewery for 7 fictitious financial quarters. Working in four- to five-person teams, players make decisions on everything for running their business: types of ingredients to use,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
for mental health, an organization that can increase awareness and reduce the stigma of illness as well as rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field, especially for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
Tsedal Neeley My intellectual agenda is ambitious and somewhat risky,” says Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow Tsedal Neeley. “I truly believe that HBS is one of the few places on earth where I could boldly pursue my work in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
A Fine Collection
The Williamses: a place in the art world. Dave Williams (MBA '61) and his wife, Reba White Williams (MBA '70), were Wall Street executives when they married in 1975. To ensure that their friends would not all be drawn from their work... View Details
- Profile
Juan Pablo Moncayo
retail investing and was convinced that business school would be a great place for making the transition." At HBS, JP has "met people I'm close to I wouldn't have met if I hadn't come here, friends... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
between developed and emerging economies. "The skills we learn at HBS—how to analyze problems, propose solutions, and execute—are tremendously valuable in places like Ghana," asserts Leach, who will bring an awareness of the role... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
APPLING George Appling (MBA 1998) has become king of his castle. The Texas native turned an "enduring passion" for Renaissance fairs into a successful business owning one. "What sets our fair apart is that we didn't build it to make money... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
he’d become an academic—instead he became instrumental in shaping our country’s food culture. Duda’s restaurant experience had been his education. In Miami, he’d been in the kitchen of the Spiral Restaurant, a new kind of counter-culture restaurant that was more than a... View Details
Keywords: April White