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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
Sun Aware of the impact that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
graduating class's HBS experience. Mattias E. Fibiger : Winner of the 2022 Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for "A Diplomatic Counter-Revolution: Indonesian Diplomacy and the Invasion of... View Details
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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Tethys Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview The Tethys Mos aic Morgan Hall, Harvard Business School Founded in 300 BCE, the Syrian city Antioch-on-the-Orontes (in modern Turkey) was a major center and... View Details
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
of the modern world's greatest Opportunists. Also of this genre, although somewhat lesser known, is Jeffrey Skilling, the Enron CEO who sold off tens of millions of dollars of stock just before Enron filed for bankruptcy, claiming he had... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Research In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime Innovation ARD... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
but in many other countries also. Its early "localization" policies opened up the most senior positions within operating companies to nationals, enabling Unilever to tap high-quality staff all over the world. Unilever managers... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
down, his intelligence dims and his memory becomes less quick, so that he risks committing many errors in his business.” “In a sense, these are very early concepts of corporate social responsibility,” says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
James Madison at the Constitutional Convention, a scene imagined here by early 20th century artist Howard Chandler Christy. (GraphicaArtis/Corbis) The blackboard fills up with proposed remedies to the country’s ills in 1787, and with more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
and revolutionized millions of Americans' lives. Riding the wave of the Model T's success, Ford Motor Company became the undisputed leader of this young market and by the early 1920s, it was producing 60 percent of all the motor vehicles... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
supportive of me." The importance of mentorship was impressed upon Modigliani at an early age. "I've always been around people who care about ideas. Everyone is a teacher in my family, except for me." That includes her grandfather, Franco... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
in other spheres that are vital to the interests of society (such as law and government, military affairs, health, and religion, to consider the classic examples), modern societies have responded by creating the institutions that we know... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
in, but there is not a well-developed system to support foreign investors. The bureaucrats here are used to having minute control of every transaction; that doesn't work in the modern business world." After steering Galaxy single-handedly... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Photography The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography: Intro In the early twentieth century, the field of public relations was developing into a formalized profession. “Businesses began to realize that not just goods but also... View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
culture rather than the one described at Volkswagen” can be enhanced by the use of modern day “technology companies use (including employee surveys, polls, etc.)” combined with leadership’s use of the evidence it produces. As to culture,... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
strategy to engage a broad audience through telling an interesting and important story being played out in twenty-first-century organizations. Q: What makes a CIO job the most volatile, high-turnover job in business? How important is CIO leadership for the future... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
the time, Deng Xiaoping was beginning to modernize the Chinese economy. “I was there about 30 years too early,” says Nelson, who left in 1980 to move to Sweden, where he married his girlfriend. Nelson came to HBS to gain the tools to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
focus, setup minimization, etc. The products and services characteristic of our modern economy are far too complex for any one person to understand how they work. It is cognitively overwhelming. Therefore, organizations must have some... View Details