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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
Illustrations by Greg Clarke Tom DeLong is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurial Management Units. What’s on your list? A biography of Raymond Carver and some of his... View Details
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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations &... View Details
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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
schools. How HBR Engages Questions About Race How HBR Engages Questions About Race FEB 07 2020 | By: Amy Bernstein Harvard Business Review’s Amy Bernstein presents on her role as an HBR editor and the publication’s approach to questions around race. Speaker View Details
- March 2005 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Oprah!
By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
Oprah Winfrey believed in sharing the experiences that shaped her development and enabled her to become the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry and first African American billionaire. Traces her childhood and entertainment career, drawing connections in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Adrift: A Short Biography of Bombay by Naresh Fernandes "As biography, it captures Simón Bolívar in the way [Cuban writer and activist] José Martí spoke of him: 'You can't speak with calm about a person who never knew calm; of Bolívar you... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- November 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership
By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
In 2005, John C. Whitehead, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. (LMDC), confronts the collapse of a delicate agreement among business, government, and public interests in rebuilding on the World Trade Center site. Provides information on the leadership... View Details
Keywords: Education; Construction; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Biography; Leadership; Leadership Development; Agreements and Arrangements; Nonprofit Organizations
George, William W., and Andrew N. McLean. "John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership." Harvard Business School Case 406-024, November 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
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Honors & Awards - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Honors & Awards Honors & Awards Porter Prize Japan... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
decided that the potential for e-books goes beyond digitalizing a bestseller; it's an opportunity to introduce new voices and genres to readers," Olson comments. At Random.com titles are also available in paperback and represent a variety of genres, from Army of She, a... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books
highlight how implementing habits leads to success. You’ll also learn the science behind habits in order to understand how and why they work. Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times Dive into the power of View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
complex task requiring an almost messianic set of beliefs and the ability to communicate them in convincing ways. For a classic example of this, read Robert Caro's prize-winning biography of builder Robert Moses who transformed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century
By: Tom Nicholas
This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions
Nicholas, Tom. "Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century." Economic History Review 52, no. 1 (February 1999): 27–44.
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
tantalizing glimpses of HBS, the 1980s Wall Street market rally, temporary insanity, and true love. The Cathedral Builder: A Biography of J. Irwin Miller by Charles E. Miller Rentschler (MBA 1964) (AuthorHouse) Rentschler has based this... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations & Institutions Affiliated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American cultural icon. This View Details
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Honors & Awards Honors & Awards Porter Prize Japan... View Details
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations & Institutions Affiliated... View Details
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations & Institutions Affiliated... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
recommend Ron Chernow’s Grant, a biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Other than as the answer to the 1950s Groucho Marx question, “Who was buried in Grant’s tomb?”, I had not known much about this fascinating person. He was a terrible judge of... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
Determination Through Brand Biography Authors:Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, Jill Avery, and Juliet Schor Publication:Journal of Consumer Research (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of an underdog brand View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace