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Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library

the Case Method of Instruction, ” 1942. (1) By the 1930s, the case method served as the primary teaching method for the MBA program at HBS. (2) As new business education programs emerged, they also successfully incorporated the teaching... View Details

19 Dec 2014
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Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

the region, as well as with HBS faculty members and administrators. The evening also featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor William A. Sahlman, Leo F. Mullin (MBA 1967), Lisa M. Gunther (MBA 2000) and Katherine E. Hindman (MBA... View Details

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

Experiment 2 demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 3 indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2021
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Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula

Illustrations by James Steinberg It’s been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the article "Scientific... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

and decision trees." "It's an exciting industry for anyone who has a technical, commercial, and financial background," says James T. Hackett (MBA '79), president, CEO, and chairman of Houston-based Ocean Energy, Inc., a company that... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

and journalistic exposés. Attacks on loan sharking in the press also inspired reformers. In 1909, the Russell Sage Foundation, led by the Columbia graduate students Arthur Ham and Clarence Wassam, dedicated itself to “the loan shark... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

shared his idea. Especially supportive was a young, then untenured professor of information technology, James Cash. "Jim told me, 'Anything you do to improve the computer's human interface has got to be good,' " Bricklin recalls. View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

Debate: The Business of Business Despite the need to exclude so much material, McCraw believes that the papers presented at the symposium paint a rich portrait of the many "remarkable contributions" to management education made by Dean... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Collection and Schwartz Art Collection by Hurvin Anderson, Philip Kwame Apagya, Radcliffe Bailey, Rico Gatson, Tomashi Jackson, Whitfield Lovell, Lorraine O’ Grady, and Carrie Mae Weems. These diverse works View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

Great Gamble: A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Stackpole Books On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

edited by João Neiva de Figueiredo (MBA ’87) and Mauro F. Guillén (Productivity Press (Taylor and Francis)) Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love by View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

and vice-president at MIT, recognized the challenges of pushing new technologies through the red tape of the military. With Harvard President James Bryant Conant and MIT President Karl Taylor Compton, Bush encouraged the pursuit of... View Details

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gender and Work Research Symposium: Virtual Edition Gender and Work Research Symposium: Virtual Edition 6 MAY 2021 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Danielle Allen Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival

Pisano and Shih: It’s naive to believe that manufacturing can be shipped abroad without harm to U.S. competitiveness. Related Links Why Manufacturing Matters - HBS Working Knowledge Making Their Way James McNerney Jr. After decades of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing business leaders across the... View Details

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

hypotheses underlying the firm's balanced scorecard and strategy map reveal problems with the strategy on a timelier basis. We also test alternative hypotheses to those underlying the firm's formal strategy map and scorecard that are consistent with concerns expressed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

Angela Serino, manager of corporate responsibility for Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, and Maria de Graça Fernandes Branco, principal of Matilde Elementary and High School. The pair are subjects of a case produced by the SEKN that... View Details

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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

by Professor James McKenney. 1964 Case Method Enters Digital Era The first computer at HBS, an IBM 1401, is installed on campus. Part of the computer’s purpose is supporting “business games,” a new facet of... View Details

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