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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
ten-year time frames for your next move. It's better to focus on what you're doing and stick with it until it becomes redundant or isn't fun anymore.” CURRENT READING Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
some tales, and then ask for tips,” Bines says. The experience taught him that the better you understand your customer, the richer the tips. He has worked in customer-facing businesses ever since, including his current role as managing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
karate practice and that another friend had brought beer to the printers. Later he would provide a detailed account of Maj’s getaway. Janek had told his friends that the SB had captured him after he and Maj had run in opposite directions.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
standards and social responsibility, technology, globalization, the School's Soldiers Field campus, and the essential contributions that women are making in the business world. While a lot has changed at HBS in 75 years, it is remarkable to learn that many of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Europe and the United States, he said, "they have already reached a threshold in customer orientation, so you have to do different things to succeed." That's not the case yet in Asia, he pointed out, as Deshpandé listened intently. HBS professor Paul M. Healy spoke on... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
The second in a series of occasional reports on current research from some of the many faculty members whose classroom presentations to alumni have been a cornerstone of recent HBS reunions, this month we report on Professor Howard H.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
amplifies the fundamental desire of people around the world to look their best. In so doing, the book provides a unique lens on globalization and offers fascinating accounts of individual entrepreneurs, the evolution of beauty ideals, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
interview. Among their findings: In the 1960s and 1970s, MBAs graduated with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they’d hire an MBA. According to several deans,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis (integrating profit planning,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
assessing needs and identifying financially viable opportunities in this market, we defined an acquisition and property control strategy, secured public/private funding partnerships, and structured responses to competitive pressures. The development plan we created... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
management challenges. The real problem for them is doing both simultaneously. Govindarajan offers a simple, proven method for allocating an organization’s energy, time, and resources across “the three boxes”: the present (keep the View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
understand about the current system—like how to best measure credit standards—that makes it harder to advance.” Accounting for Human Nature Sam Hanson, Marvin Bower Associate Professor Changes in financial... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
current environment. The way that we're seeing it as an opportunity to learn from how to help people make effective changes that align with this new time and how they want to live their lives. For instance, we just did a piece last week... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
over a quarter of adults — 27 percent — have a very close family member or friend who has served in the current military effort in Iraq or Afghanistan. And it is not only in combat that so little is being asked of America as a whole.... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
water. During her first few years, she experimented widely before settling on her current mix of produce and meat. In 1992, the year she received organic certification from the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey, she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Professors Lorsch, Palepu, Kanter, Healy, Koehn, and Hall. Spangler Center, Fall 2002. Photography by Webb Chappell. With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
translate for us, willingness to donate isn’t so different—and so my strategy class has also been very helpful. I use accounting to evaluate finances and develop budget documents both here and in my role on the board of the organization I... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Bhide's Entrepreneurial Management course gives his students a feel for the skills they will need as entrepreneurs. The course, first offered in 1983 and currently taught by Bhide and Assistant Professor Myra Maloney Hart, focuses on... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
'96), was recently promoted to director of National Accounts with L'Oreal in Spain. "Prior to my MBA studies," says Baeza, a Swiss native, "I had been working in Switzerland for Nivea for four years as a group product manager in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey