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- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
The groves of academe are fields rich with possibilities for memorial naming, from entire campuses and buildings to individual benches. HBS has honored individuals and groups of people by putting their names not only to buildings but also to streets, rooms in... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
and how they influence the standards of the countries in which they operate as they seek global consistency. We are following a small number of companies with excellent reputations to locations both similar and different from their home... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
exacerbate the tension between short-term performance and long-term success of the corporation…. While different in form, this hedge fund pressure raises management and board issues similar to those created by the pressure to give... View Details
- 08 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
assigned to a team led by another woman, the experience was revelatory. “I could see myself in that more senior role,” she says. Still, Eberle Walker had never envisioned herself on the path to CEO. Her mentors were chief operating officers and chief administrative... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
affiliates a chance to interact and work together in what Clark called "one of the most dynamic regions in the world." Over the next decade, the hope is to establish similar research offices in other key regions. "We are wholeheartedly... View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
built it into a powerhouse. In 1989, he moved on to advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi and performed similar magic before taking the helm of Germany-based Adidas in 1993. Under Louis-Dreyfus, one of Business Week's "Top 25 Managers" of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
functionality contained in a search engine. Instead, each project was assessed by a panel of industry experts, who rated the performance of the resulting product relative to others that targeted similar customer needs at the same time.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
encourage voter turnout among customers, similar to Facebook's Election Day notifications or Lyft’s discounted rides to polling stations. Support election administration by donating resources such as ballot boxes, office supplies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, in joint work with Joe Long, Carlo Medici, and Qian, we found similar results. After 1880, parts of the US West that were more impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act grew at considerably lower rates... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
Sanders, a Tennessee native who graduated from Florida A&M University with a degree in accounting. "It was great to be able to give back to an organization that could have a similar impact on someone's life." By his own account, the two... View Details
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Paola Lara
that, she needed “to address shortcomings in areas like finance and strategy. I’d like to understand and communicate clearly on all business issues.” Once she committed herself to getting an MBA, selecting the right program proved simple. “HBS’ purpose is View Details
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Nneka Ezeigwe
attracts about 1,300 people each year. I’m excited to use this network to inspire and work with people who share a similar vision, so that the increasing stories of growth and optimism will absolutely displace the negative stories that... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Profile
Jonathan Assayag
immediately. "I spent a lot of time experimenting with a startup in the area of college admissions," he says. "I was able to pick up the phone and talk to HBS alumni with similar interests. The network really is everything... View Details
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Behrad Mahdi
Nigerian economy, we're always building a kind of leadership intuition." For Behrad, the experience is similar to his track and field exercises in high school. "Every day, the coaches would make us run slowly, really slowly, to... View Details
- 20 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One
differ from those who seem most similar – and how much you share with those who couldn’t seem more different. There is something deeply humanizing about discovering this. You appreciate different community identities – but you also learn... View Details
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Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business. - Advancing Racial Equity
experiences in the workplace. If successful, we could expand these efforts to engage and partner with individuals at other institutions who are committed to writing similar types of cases. Fourth, we will leverage Harvard Business... View Details
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Merit-Based Admissions, Need-Based Aid | MBA
impacting your HBS Scholarship award. Evaluating a Sponsorship Offer Carefully consider and fully understand the repayment terms required by your sponsor. Stories Alumni-Driven Funding HBS Scholarships are funded by alumni. We try to pair alumni and scholarship... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
This "new plant, new team, new concept" approach has generally worked well elsewhere for GM, Hughes says, in part because "when substantial capital and resources are thus committed, you go out of your way to understand the requirements of your customers." Hughes... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
made me much more aware of human limitations — others’ and my own. “My hope,” he adds, “is to use what I’ve learned through this ordeal to help others in overcoming similar challenges.” Feagler, his wife, Kitty, and their new daughter... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details