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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
timescales not just of days and weeks but of decades—something that can’t be done with gusting winds and fickle sunshine. “We know how much power we’re going to get out of this... View Details
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
manager’s job. Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) explores the kinds of decisions made by general managers (GMs) and how context influences both the nature of the choices to be made... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
options. We decided to go for what we thought would be a winning investor team composed of a renowned venture firm and three large, industry-related business angels. A signed term sheet was shared by the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
speaks passionately about his faith, the rights of others to their own beliefs, and the damage done by extremists: “It’s a clash of ignorance, that people don’t understand what Christianity or Judaism or the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
there’s an urgent need to rethink the MBA. Garvin: Simply because MBAs are being churned out in large numbers doesn’t mean that we have the ideal combination of course offerings or that we prepare students... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
rewards programs as a defense mechanism. They just try to copy what the competition is doing. If that is all that you do, then you are not clear in your own mind about what can be View Details
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024 | Working Knowledge
while being torn between optimism about possibilities and awareness of how much is still to be done and wondering how View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
you've done on firms' location decisions. Could businesses be doing a better job of that? MP: American businesses should be locating certain activities abroad because that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Immelt had spent his second year at HBS reflecting on his career path, and he decided that he was more interested in being an operator than an investor, accepting a position with a lower salary at GE. Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake the topic. It wasn’t just a professional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
Business ideas may be entered in ONE track - either Business or Social Enterprise. Participating teams in the Business track are required to have at least one Harvard Business School MBA student who is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
need: sexual assault prevention on college campuses. “We didn’t feel that enough was being done or that students were being engaged,” Brooks says. “We really believed that... View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
often discussed with Uncle the expediency of my buying a house in town, in which all the family could be collected to live in the winter,” John Heard wrote. “He approved the idea, and I was not, therefore,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
You shouldn’t ask me about retirement, because I’ve done absolutely no planning for it other than financial. And I’d hope to be able to work as... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
relieve pain would not exist today. But any analysis that considers the profits of coordinating pharmaceutical firms while ignoring the harm done to consumers is incomplete. When can we judge value creation... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
individual rowers, lose regularly in practice to the supposedly less talented Army JV boat. The two big questions facing Coach P are: Why is this happening? What can be done... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
Clubs News Clubs News New York Alumni Honor Outstanding Leaders at Annual Dinner The HBS Club of New York held its 54th Annual Leadership Dinner on April 24, honoring three alumni who embody the HBS mission to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world," and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley