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11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

wonder if we could have done better; if we get a great deal, we wonder if we could've gotten even more." In his book The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World, Wheeler gave... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

preserved, Bailey believes, because it is the right thing to do. And done right, it will be transformational. “Ultimately the tourist is the agent of change,” says Bailey.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

aspires to develop commitment from employees? If the company strategy calls for rapid growth, can this be done without diluting the higher-ambition culture? If you are trying... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2004
News

The Sky’s the Limit

for eighteen years. Indeed, he had no idea what he would be doing after he left the Seattle-based Fluke Corporation, an electronics-testing equipment manufacturer, last summer. All he knew was that he wanted View Details

Keywords: Seattle Avionics; Transportation; Air Transportation; Transportation

09 Jun 2017
News

Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

me is the discovery and learning of the people, because I believe any destination is different. It's because of the human creation of what people living there have done with the natural environment they are given. And so I always want... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

At the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina was one of the great economic powers in the world—capitalizing on exports of beef and wheat to be a leader in the first wave of globalization. Neighboring... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Strategic Plan | Information Technology

into the future. 3. Modernize Foundational Technology for Digital Transformation We modernize and enhance our strategically critical enterprise systems to ensure the business of the School can be View Details

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

Invitational, ready to do something that had never been done before in the history of the race: Complete a 1,000-mile trek across the Alaskan mainland from Anchorage to Nome on... View Details

Profile

Cristina Ros Blankfein

What really helped us is that we had a clearly delineated budget upfront of what we had to spend in order to get the concept tested. That really helped us to View Details

16 Nov 2021
News

Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest

the work,” he said. “At HBS we have a unique way of getting things done by building support for things. It’s going to prove beneficial because it will require people be... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

generation of family. “That’s often the preferred method,” says founder and CEO Rick Bauerly (MBA 1996). But when that’s not possible, then we want to be the next-best alternative, which is a group of family... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2006
News

One-on-One with Tom Oreck

headquarters or our Long Beach facility could be taken out by a hurricane. One of the things we didn’t anticipate was a storm that was massive enough to take out both locations simultaneously. Ahead of the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

15 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

voice in her ear. “On graduation day from Cornell, my Nigerian mother looked at me and said ‘You’re not done with school. You need to get your Master’s,” Dozie laughed. “As a first-generation American, you... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

(HRPBA 1957) Judith Prior Lawrie (HBRPA 1958) "I've always said, having gone to the Business School, I knew the jargon. I mean literally I spoke the same language from day one. And so I tended to View Details

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

potentially game-changing; and Carmichael Roberts, partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, discussed the firm’s mission of aggregating and funding ideas and companies to scale climate solutions. In closing, Tufano urged attendees View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models

experiment required virtually no investment or additional cost—apart from minor website design changes—it can be done by almost any e-commerce business, with significant impact View Details

Profile

Terrance McGuire

McGuire said. “It was about commitment and leadership and recruiting the best talent and being smart about it. It was a very exciting environment and I got exposed to a lot of different entrepreneurial... View Details

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

the benefit of racial diversity alone, done right, pays off not just in a better company, but a more productive one. In new research that focuses specifically on racial diversity, Ely said they found measurable performance benefits when... View Details