MBAs Across America - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

I think this will be the one and only time that I’ll ever be able to say that everybody in the United States of America is my customer. Even back in the day, when I started at Procter & Gamble, it wasn’t 100 percent of households that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

School's US Competitiveness Project. Because business leaders have a profound economic and moral stake in making that happen, Rivkin adds, "the most progressive of them are moving into hands-on, long-term partnerships with educators. That's what's really needed if... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2000
News

A Message from Dean Clark

have just expanded our reach with the opening in August of the Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires. The center will support our faculty's research on important business issues in South America, Central America, and Mexico. As... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Oct 1996
News

Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)

assistant, Cynthia Liggon, puts it, "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." "I'm in the hope business," affirms Coverdale, who himself rose from the poor, rough-and-tumble world of the South Bronx as a youth to become one of the first African Americans... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

Web

Introduction | Baker Library

Introduction Management Training Program students. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. TC 172-1-33 Second year MBA class with Diana C. Greer (MBA 1960) in front row and Roberta Moniz... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Investing in Innovation

more than a billion people have been brought into the circle of economic inclusion—but there are still billions more waiting, in America and around the world. Business leaders have a vital role to play in helping to widen this circle of... View Details

Keywords: HBS Fund; Educational Services

01 Feb 1999
News

New Releases

Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra Ghoshal proposed a revolutionary new... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

01 Sep 2008
News

Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale

JOEL PODOLNY: New courses reach across disciplines. Yale set out in the fall of 2006 to create a distinctive new model of management education, one that eliminated traditional discipline-based courses and replaced them with courses... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Sep 2013
News

More Seats at the Table

tell you about women who have retired from marketing and technology and HR positions all across corporate America reporting to the CEO. You haven't heard of them, but they are outstanding senior-level... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Corporate Services

24 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

that prepares students to lead in a data-driven and digital world, to seek business opportunities in new technologies, to lead across differences, and to build sustainable businesses." The Dean also made note of ways the School is making... View Details

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

Alger stories had it wrong—access to positions of power and leadership in America was not available to all equally. Who was favored during that time? Anthony Mayo: It's not that the Alger stories were wrong, it's just that the focus has... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

furthering their education. Enright is seeing double the number of full-time participants attend CCRI right after high school. Because of the program, many CCRI graduates go on to jobs across the state that help to fill the middle-skills... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

industry shaped how America lived, worked, and played, helping the country grow into the colossus of the 20th century. But now the U.S. industry, once the bellwether of the nation’s economy, may become just another, ordinary player in a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Fifty years ago, when America was unquestionably a man's world, one small but influential part of it officially opened its doors to women: the MBA program at Harvard Business School. On Thursday, about 800... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

16 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

sports industry, a Corporate Strategy internship at Nike. “I was excited about Corporate Strategy because it was a role that would allow me to come into an organization and see the most across various functions,” Laitsas recalled. “In my... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Turning Point: Life Cycle

Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) For years, I dreamed of crossing America by bicycle for the physical and spiritual challenge, as well as the opportunity to... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

EiR: A Baker’s Dozen

Now in its sixth year, the Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) program welcomed 13 innovators for the 2011–2012 academic year. The entrepreneurs, 10 of whom are HBS alumni, come from a variety of backgrounds, including venture capital, private equity, telecommunications,... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Post-Grad Ponderings

We tracked down a handful of 2014 graduates to get a quick snapshot of where they’re going, what they’re doing, how they kept going through countless hours of case preparation, and who was in their cheering sections as they walked across... View Details