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- 01 Oct 1998
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companies and countries seeking effective strategies for competing in today's global economy. "If this collection could convey only one message," Porter writes in his introduction, "I would want it to be a sense of the staggering power of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
remember writing essays for admission to HBS and talking a lot about leadership and impact,” she recalls. “I can’t think of a better way to be a leader and have impact than what I am doing now.” Scharpf created SHE in the fall of 2007 to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
example, the fountain pen industry nearly collapsed after the introduction of ballpoint pens. Today, people are still buying fountain pens not because they are seamless writing instruments but because, like Swiss watches, a fountain pen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
student clubs, Akinola cochaired this year’s Africa Business Conference, which brought more than five hundred people to campus to discuss entrepreneurial ventures in Africa. She is also writing a case study on a female entrepreneur in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
slave trade was abolished in 1873 in order to ensure an end to slavery, and services are still held there today. With its white sandy beaches, Zanzibar offered many options for those who were not interested in venturing away from the two resorts. Be it swimming in the... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
they worked with me for two months to help write my business plan.” Pao picked up additional investors through meetings and luncheons organized by Bender: “By December 2011 I had raised half the money I needed from family and friends,”... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
immensely creative, but he writes 'Rushdie' books, and his publishers have to create a market for his books, not ask him to write books that will sell more easily than literary fiction," she says.... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
George H. Strong, MBA 1951
directors analyzes, deliberates, and decides.” Participating in case discussions and writing weekly WACs (Written Analysis of Cases), says Strong, “allowed us not only to observe, but to take part in figuring out how to solve business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
An Exceptional Faculty of Scholars and Teachers
250 academics and practitioners — who make them a reality. Today’s faculty members are drawn from an increasingly wide range of backgrounds and disciplines. Developing these individuals—helping them become not just effective but outstanding teachers, preparing them to... View Details
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Fellowships | Baker Library
administration, or a related discipline, graduate students or non-tenured faculty in those fields from other universities, and Harvard College undergraduates writing senior theses in these fields, whose research requires travel away from... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
Cortada travel back in time to seek enlightenment about the future. To a large extent, they write, “historical perspective is crucial to our understanding of information in the role of the transformation of the United States from the colonial period to the present.”... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
Respond and Respond II, and Sonya Brown and Michelle Dietz (both MBA ’02). After the success of the first CD, last year Devereaux asked the HBS Entertainment & Media Club for help writing a business plan. “The idea was to broaden the... View Details
- Profile
Danelle Radney
it was number one with more than two hundred INROADS interns.” Because passion alone isn’t enough After graduation, Danelle continued to rise at Target. “I was able to incorporate many things I was passionate about into my roles,” she says. “But I knew I couldn’t keep... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
to emerge. And I don’t want to write off the baby boomers.” The key to cultivating leaders is to set the right expectations, said Kanter. Increasingly, she sees this happening. “I think we are going to move into a time where idealism and... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
thus offer a way to orient employees toward creative thinking and problem-solving. Across three studies, researchers found that having individuals spend several minutes writing about a nostalgic memory made them feel more open-minded and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
determine their relevance in the future. Datar and Garvin recently talked about the way forward for business education. In the opening pages of your book, you write that the need for change is “urgent.” Why urgent? Garvin: First, we heard... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
mortgage-backed securities, which experienced large losses. "There's a fascinating discrepancy there," says Becker. "Something works for decades, for a century, really, with corporate ratings, and it failed utterly with structured products." Becker... View Details
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Jewish American Heritage Month | Baker Library
. You can download a PDF of the above spread here . Below are Estée Lauder's Rules of Success in Business, excerpted from the Profiles : Rule 1. Find the proper location Rule 2. When you're angry, never put it in writing Rule 3. You get... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
like for you as an artist in these socially distant corona-times? Madame Gandhi: I think in the producer community, the sort of ongoing joke is that we’ve been preparing for this moment our whole life. I think the solitude of being in your emotions in order to View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Her Ambitions Margaret Glover—In the Right Environment Karla (Rose) Middlebrooks—Keeping to the Middle Lane Gwen Shuster-Haynes—The Write Stuff John Weber—Newly Energized Monica Dodi Entertaining Her Ambitions On the "stresses-of-life"... View Details