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Commencement 2013 Address | About

planning period, six months, we had to arrange for 900 students—each and every one of you—to fly to an emerging market, in most cases a place you’d never visited before. We had to View Details

02 May 2018
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Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

range for every position in the company can be made transparent without revealing the exact pay for any person. This can help employees in their career planning and ambitions." Tahoegrrl reminded us: "There are differences in... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety View Details

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Brett Lindsay Laffel

Growing up as the daughter of transplanted New Yorkers deep in the heart of Red Sox Nation proved formative for Brett Lindsay Laffel. "I was raised as a Yankees fan in enemy territory," Brett says. "In order to wear my Yankees caps to school View Details

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

class. Please contact her assistant, Mads Tolsdorf ( mtolsdorf@hbs.edu ) to arrange a meeting. Goal of course – Create a community, learn from each other and have fun. Copyright © 2024 President & Fellows of... View Details

29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

(international reserve assets that supplement a country’s official reserves); and negotiating agreements to fund some of flagship projects laid out in the 2019–2023 Priority Action Plan, a development model... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

board and executive management team are in clear agreement on goals, strategy, and actions. Always involved in rapidly changing environments, nonprofits need to maintain... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the... View Details

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

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

for all of Poland?’ He hesitatingly responded, ‘Let’s start small,’” Diamond recalls. “In the next few years, we signed a formal agreement with the archives.” As activities grew, JRI-Poland formed an executive committee View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

formerly editor of the Harvard Business Review and deputy editor of Inc. magazine. From the book How Will You Measure Your Life? © 2012 By Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon. Reprinted... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

Welsh offers another take on the downside of part-time and flexible work arrangements in the corporate world. She has two children, took her maternity leave for each, and went... View Details

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

01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground

Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins, still covered in mud View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit

vendor agreement with a compelling business model, I suspect the superior path is the new opportunity. —J.W. Penland (MBA 1996) Definitely branch out beyond wellness, which is full of hype and competitors.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

percent a year and is poised on the cusp of enormous change. In June, Prime View International (PVI) signed an agreement to acquire E Ink for about $215 million. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, PVI is E Ink’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

and worked for Qaddafi’s son Saadi. Within a few days, at Bradley’s request, Frazier had located Gillis and two other journalists being held with her and helped View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

and restaurants, and salesmen assisted storeowners in arranging advertisements for store counters and window displays using trade cards as well... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

item in the collection is the memoir Jay Cooke wrote late in life. Also noteworthy are the agreements Cooke made with other firms, in particular an 1869 contract between Cooke and the Northern Pacific... View Details

02 May 2012
What Do You Think?

Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?

industry in general fails in: (1) catering to customer desires for short courses that produce quick results, (2) emphasizing, and training for, ways of gaining self-knowledge, (3) providing laboratories for the application of passively... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Feb 1997
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HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology

possible since 1995 through a special arrangement with America Online (AOL), the key elements in the new system include immediate access to regularly updated information and the assignment of a lifetime... View Details

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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising

those with simple covers to those with tooled embossed leather and elaborate designs. The collecting of advertising media especially appealed to women and children, who created artful View Details

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