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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A champion for First Nations
Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) was trained to be a public servant from childhood. Having grown up in a family of Native American Cree chiefs, Favel has spent a lifetime shoring up employment opportunities for his people. As chancellor at the University of Saskatchewan, he is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Community by Bert Berkley (MBA ’50) and Peter Economy (Wiley) Profiling many highly effective charitable organizations — for example, Kiva, Horizons for Homeless Children, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Stonyfield Farm Profits for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle over Who Decides What We Eat by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Chelsea Green Publishing) Do Americans have the right to get their food from farmers, neighbors, and local producers? Yes, say Gumpert... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building a career one stage at a time
Deborah Denenberg (MBA 1983) talks about her career as a Broadway theater producer, business educator, and working parent. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
multimedia company, devise a monetization strategy for its online presence, primarily by gathering information about the viewing habits of young, well-educated, upscale consumers. A key finding that emerged from their surveys, conducted... View Details
- October 1986 (Revised January 1991)
- Case
Manac Systems International Ltd.
Manac Systems International is confronting a decision about how best to market one of its computer software product lines to small law firms. In the past, Manac has focused on traditional personal selling approaches to market software products that ran on IBM... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Communications; Marketing Channels; Software; Product Marketing; Information Technology Industry
Kosnik, Thomas J. "Manac Systems International Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 587-076, October 1986. (Revised January 1991.)
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
who use lifelong e-mail forwarding addresses and to explore new ways of delivering relevant services and information using the dynamic vehicle of technology. The committee is currently exploring ways to provide computer training for... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
An education reformer and social entrepreneur
Sir Cyril Taylor (MBA 1961) is a social entrepreneur and British educator who served 10 successive secretaries of state for education. “I love my work helping young people get a good education,” he says. Taylor had a successful career at Proctor and Gamble when he left... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
Singleton (MBA ’88). The trio look at what can be learned by stepping back and taking a longer term view of how some of the greatest business leaders of the last century built successful careers. The book draws on information from the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
From Beats to Tweets
MC Hammer, the 1990s rapper known to his mother as Stanley K. Burrell, visited HBSin February in his latest incarnation: expert on social-media sites, music, and business. According to the Harvard Crimson, Burrell noted that social media, more than any other, excels in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Six Receive Dean’s Award
Established in 1997, the Dean’s Award recognizes graduating students for extraordinary nonacademic contributions to Harvard, HBS, or the broader community. This year’s recipients, honored at June’s Commencement ceremonies, were Andrew Goldin (enhancing the MBA learning... View Details
- 2005
- Book
The Broadband Explosion: Leading Thinkers on the Promise of a Truly Interactive World
By: Robert D. Austin and Stephen P. Bradley
Austin, Robert D. and Stephen P. Bradley, eds. The Broadband Explosion: Leading Thinkers on the Promise of a Truly Interactive World. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2005.
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
secretary has continued to be a blessing, as I’ve been in the middle of communications between members of our class and HBS for the past 40 years.” Freeman returned to the company after HBS, but after five years decided to put the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 2010
- Working Paper
Developing Negotiation Case Studies
While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on managerially relevant topics in general, negotiation cases have distinctive aspects that merit explicit treatment. This article offers three types of tailored advice for producing cases on... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Developing Negotiation Case Studies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-008, July 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
- 18 Oct 2010
- News
Business School Deans on the Future
- May 2018
- Teaching Note
AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-486. View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
- 14 Dec 2009
- News
Salman Khan, Math Master of the Internet
- April 1989
- Case
News and No Comment at Emery Air Freight
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
A reporter from a regional newspaper examines several major news stories that address significant recent developments at Emery Air Freight. His concerns invite discussion of the implications of Emery's apparent "no comment" policy and other factors that can lead to... View Details
Greyser, Stephen A., and Norman Klein. "News and No Comment at Emery Air Freight." Harvard Business School Case 589-104, April 1989.
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
100 students. “Most of these young people grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” Condo notes. “We learn about them from their high schools or community leaders, who know they have extraordinary potential.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
a lean but deeply networked international presence, the centers enable the faculty to produce research that informs management practice around the world and have become a locus for HBS activities in their regions. The insights faculty... View Details