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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
restructure in one way or another in order to survive in an uncertain economy. The only sure thing, according to HBS professor Stuart Gilson, is that restructuring itself has become more than just a last-resort action of desperate View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- Web
Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
from an agrarian society to an industrial power. Managers, who now numbered in the millions, got their training either on the job, or in technically oriented, for-profit business schools. The new discipline of management, however, was striving for an View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
applications of that knowledge or imbues the identity of leadership on that student, the educational outcomes need to adhere to the criteria of veracity and accuracy we hold for any other field taught in a university setting. Moreover,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
argument . . . is that it is necessary to look at both the costs imposed upon others without their consent and the rights denied to others, also without their consent, from multiple lenses." Does the business world look different in a... View Details
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Article databases: Which to choose? | Baker Library
Help Center Article databases: Which to choose? How do I know which article database to use? Depending on your research needs, you may want to select one article database over another. Each article database has its own particular strengths: ABI ProQuest Best for View Details
Arjun Chopra
Arjun holds multiple technology patents that have been cited as prior art by firms like Apple, AT&T and iRobot. He has also held several technology development and management positions in consumer and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews were often less than welcoming. Since those early engineering days, Kovatch has held View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
African-American Student Union. Growing opportunities and competitive advantages have made the inner city a hot spot for investors, particularly developers. “Real estate is a $24 trillion industry — there’s no bubble there,” said Yvonne B. Haskins, a senior View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
Douglas B. Holt says brand managers have little appreciation for how myths in American culture can be used to create "extraordinary" brand-building opportunities. In this e-mail interview, Holt discusses a recent working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- Profile
Maura Sullivan
coming home." After five years in the Corps, including a seven-month tour of duty in Iraq where she managed multiple operations, Maura returned home eager for greater responsibility. "I knew I... View Details
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Luis Cervantes
internship and employment at UBS, Luis gained exposure first to wealth management then investment banking. “It was military-type training within the financial sector,” Luis says. “I worked with the most capable professionals in the... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
identically distributed signals of true quality," he says. "Essentially, they treat a restaurant that gets three five-star reviews followed by three one-star reviews the same way that they treat a restaurant that gets three one-star... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
a French aeronautic plant and shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers’ identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain control. On... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Courtesy Pentagram Graphic designers have created some of the world’s best-known logos, from Coke to Mercedes to McDonald’s. Yet their role in establishing a company’s identity is not always understood or valued by senior management. In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
multiple revenue sources, continued investments in the campus, and limited debt. The surplus we generate allows us to invest in innovation, self-fund faculty research, and offer generous need-based financial aid.” Increasingly, however,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
...It’s saying that this is a big part of what most people want to get out of the college experience, so let’s do a better job of helping them to have good outcomes—and, by the way, that’ll help a lot of employers as well. While higher education has View Details