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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
Before you make that next big deal — to buy a car, hire new staff, or acquire a company — you'd better brush up on your ballroom skills. In business today, negotiating is more like an intricate dance than a cold transaction, according to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
into this business from the time I was thirteen, when I was given a couple of shares of stock," says the quietly intense Kingdon. "Even though the market nose-dived soon thereafter, I was taken with the idea that you could buy something... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
their time on the conference circuit, selling to the wrong audience. At the end of the day, I was only as good as the next woman in Indiana deciding if she wanted to play FarmVille or not. Bill Campbell is the most gifted coach I’ve ever worked with. I tend to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
aspects of each class so that professors could focus on their students and the case discussions. To help faculty with the unique challenges and opportunities of teaching online, the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning compiled best practices from HBS Online... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
home." Having logged so many hours as a performer, he was self-confident and comfortable speaking his mind, and his natural proclivity for numbers and analytics served him well. "I loved business school," he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
institutions, the authors note how business needs to use data and analytics to their advantage, to deal with such issues as reconciling different data sets and how to leverage economies of scale while... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
ever to win the honor, which he shares with Myron S. Scholes of Stanford University. Merton, the School's George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, joins more than thirty Harvard University faculty members who have won a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the importance of sharing that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
outright. Roberto offers effective methods and real-world examples of how the most successful organizations create cultures of innovation and experimentation. He examines how to break barriers to spark creativity and foster new ideas. 52 Things We Wish Someone Had Told... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
In April, Dean Kim B. Clark announced that Harvard Business School will add the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) to the portfolio of criteria used to evaluate a candidate's application to the MBA Program, effective for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses are continually being... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
emotions and anger and all those things. And the new brain or the neocortex is the analytical engine, that's the thing that knows what is a cat and how to telephone your mother and how to do a math equation. So, we are really studying the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
woman who had climbed Everest," he recalls. "She drew a lot of parallels to business, including team effort and setting goals." Analytical and methodical by nature, and a mechanical engineer by training, Petzel began thinking about making... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
Whether matching analytical wits once again with professors and classmates in Aldrich, lunching under the yellow-and-white tents behind Kresge, or savoring chance meetings with long-lost friends, the graduates and guests who returned to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Receives YPO’s Sustainability Award on Economic Justice/Community Impact 2014 Receives National Entrepreneurship Award from President of Mexico Cofounder and Managing Partner, IGNIA As a husband, father, friend, and business partner,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
nature of promising start-ups, the evolution of fledgling businesses, and the societal implications of new businesses. Using a thorough, analytical approach, Bhidé applies more than ten years of intensive research and modern theories of... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, which focuses its teaching, research, and collaborative efforts on nonprofit organizations, other private social-purpose enterprises, and the role of business leadership in the social sector. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
This consciousness-raising book asks business students, who are usually risk-averse, to look at risk in a new way. It argues that choices they think are “safe” (lucrative jobs taken only for financial gain, service to others deferred... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Helping African Businesses Compete on the Global Stage Sheila Kyarisiima’s (MBA/MPA 2017) curiosity about building things, especially infrastructure, prompted the Kampala, Uganda, native to come to the United States in 2007 to study... View Details