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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
a normal conversation." In addition to counseling Sanders on how to proceed with his planned career in the investment management industry, Welch offered a sneak preview of his new autobiography, Jack: Straight from the Gut. "He advised me... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
authority of running the business. Chandler described this management culture as "managerial capitalism. "Owners' delegation of responsibility to professional managers established a corporate norm that was then carried down... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
one of Doriot's former students, chose Doriot to serve as lieutenant colonel in the Quartermaster Corps. The Corps was responsible for research and development of new materials and products for combat troops. Doriot became a naturalized... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
lock, but the company soon expanded its focus to B2B sales in the health care sector. Its clients now include sites responsible for COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, which require both security and a reliable audit log. The... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
how they would answer the question, "Can for-profit corporations be good citizens?" In reflecting on their answers, the chapter puts forward an account that grounds the purpose and responsibilities of for-profit corporations in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
puzzle," writes HBS professor Michael E. Porter, with coauthors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara in their new book, Can Japan Compete? How has this book been received in Japan? Perhaps I'm not the most objective person to answer that question ... but we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- Profile
Ann DeWitt
After five years as a research scientist at 3M, Ann DeWitt was ready for managerial responsibilities that would require a new set of skills. "I wondered how I would make the transition," Ann says. "In slow steps or in one... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Publications November 2014 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
perfect set of slides to convince investors to back you and your venture. The authors, veterans of the startup world, show you how to create a compelling pitch deck and how to plan and execute a fundraising road show to garner financial... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
wanted to work with nonprofits, and Habitat offered a way to begin learning on-the-ground skills like transporting cement blocks over crumbling roads in time to build a house. The plan after graduating from HBS was to work in the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Somerville, Massachusetts, needed advice on how to make the nonprofit more cost-effective, he might have considered attending business school. But he didn’t have to. Harvard Business School came to him in the form of alumni who have helped him develop a new strategic... View Details
- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
the planning process so that they feel engaged and buy-in. Even our 8-year-old was able to express preferences that we incorporated which gave him something to look forward to when he was fatigued from our long travels. While you don’t... View Details
- Web
BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
nation, Ray plans to advance his research how businesses and other organizations respond to racial disparities, focusing on individual and systemic responses. His work bridges social science with practical recommendations for designing... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
http://hbr.org/product/ge-and-the-industrial-internet/an/614032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-020 Goldman Sachs: Anchoring Standards After the Financial Crisis Goldman Sachs, a longtime venerable financial institution... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
Summing Up Our forward projections often reflect what we have just experienced. Responses to the question, "What will be the single most promising area of research or study in the next 10 years?," reflect issues that fall into... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure. Specifically, we show that failure to follow the norm is significantly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
opting instead for HBS and an executive career. Ten years later, he again aborted plans to attend medical school when his wife's health suddenly deteriorated, leaving him with primary responsibility for... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
(photo by Local Motors) (photo by Local Motors) The Jetsonian era may be upon us. A recent NPR piece details how 24-year-old Colombia native Edgar Sarmiento worked with Local Motors to build a vehicle called Olli—a self-driving electric minibus. Sarmiento’s design came... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
expert on corporate responsibility issues, notes that mergers and acquisitions involve a wide array of ethical questions, some of which relate to the degree of "fit" between the value systems of the merging firms. "A mismatch can... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
number of key aspects of the old deal offered by companies that simply aren’t as compelling to the rising generation born after 1981 as they were to their boomer parents: full-time work in a traditional office environment, gradual advancement, a retirement View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller