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- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Business School and Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education programs, bringing together Harvard University’s preeminent array of scholars, and integrating the governance ideas, management tools, and leadership techniques each school has to offer. View Details
Keywords: Government
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
final revenues, with a formula to disburse the ultimate profits. In this way, the partners were able to focus first on the total value chain and, only after that, on the division of profits,” writes Gomes-Casseres. The final chapter is... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary
Cole in 1949 Let’s hear it for HBS’s oldest class secretary, Charlie Cole, who will turn 100 on July 23. Charlie writes about the AMP 14 class, which graduated in December 1948, 96 members strong, and now has 6 hardy souls. The 1949... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
health benefits, Herzlinger favors tax breaks. She proposes that Congress simply extend to all employees the current tax-exemption employers have for the purchase of employee health plans. Writing in the National Review, she explained how... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
underperformance,” write Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) and Joel Fleishman, two of the nation’s leading authorities on high-performance giving, in their new book, Give $mart, Philanthropy That Gets Results. “The generosity that causes people to... View Details
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Event Guidelines | About
self-mounted displays, multimedia displays, and installations must be proposed in writing to the Campus Services team for approval. Schools and non-School based units may restrict the use of exhibits/displays in the spaces under their... View Details
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Today, let us celebrate the end of an... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The importance of blockbusters has been... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto
forward in the application. Last, choose your recommenders very carefully; in my opinion, what matters most is to choose recommenders with whom you have worked closely and who can write about your attributes in the most honest and... View Details
- 24 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Learning to Code at Business School
experience. Sloan: Just the workload. It's hard to dedicate 20-25 hours a week. What was the most rewarding thing about it? Samuel: Building things! You build several apps/programs yourself in the course of the class. Also learning the "language" of CS. I... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
Finding Your Religion by Scotty Mclennan (HarperSanFrancisco) When the faith of one's youth loses its meaning, there is no ingrained cultural habit of looking elsewhere," writes cartoonist Garry Trudeau in the introduction to Finding Your... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Boards of Directors of Small Corporations, the first of many books and articles he would write on corporate governance. His research on boards of directors -- he served on many himself -- created great interest and some controversy in the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
outstanding in terms of job and population growth and quality of life. That research led me to write a book, Boomtown USA: The 7½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns, published in 2004." Since then, Schultz has visited some 400 communities... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA 1985) On Getting Back into the Workforce
about resuming careers after time away. I didn't know a single other person who had returned to work after a career break at the time, until I met Vivian in 2002. We both felt alone and without a game plan. We decided to write Back on... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
during the MBA program. Giovanni Estrella (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? Jacksonville, Florida. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I was a Senior Quality Engineer for the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in the United States. Primarily, my role... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
for having a poor location score relative to nonblack hosts," the researchers write in the paper. "These differences highlight the risk of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
found yourself struggling with the wording while writing a paper, but after taking time away from it, you're able to quickly find the right words? This is your unconscious mind at work. While our conscious mind is focused on other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Adam Zalisk
I've always loved telling stories. In grade school, I scribbled away at picture books. In high school, I wanted to write novels. And in college, I directed plays. Theater intrigued me because it demanded collaboration. Actors,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Zachary Surak
him to write with passion or respect his audience? For me, mentorship is all about seizing these often overlooked everyday chances to open people's eyes to their own potential. I love seeing people's faces light up when they talk about... View Details