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  • 24 May 2023
  • News

Five Harvard Business School Faculty Members Receive Class of 2023 Faculty Teaching Award Honors

  • July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Supplement

United Rentals (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Board Committees; Chairman; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; North America
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  • 21 Apr 2023
  • News

Raymond J. McGuire (JD/MBA 1984), Current President of Lazard, Former Vice Chairman of Citigroup, to Be Harvard Business School’s 2023 Class Day Speaker

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 14 Jun 2022
    • News

    HBS Announces Its 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

    • September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
    • Case

    Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling

    By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
    With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Scheduling; Local Autonomy; Automation; Metrics; Organizational Change; Human Resource Management; Process Improvement; Performance Measurement; Transparency; Southern United States; Retailing; Department Stores; System Outsourced Services; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Governance Controls; Resource Allocation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Applications and Software; Family Business; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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    • March–April 2013
    • Article

    Vaporware, Suddenware and Trueware: New Product Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty

    By: Elie Ofek and Ozge Turut
    A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such communications can affect rivals' incentives to develop the same new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Announcements; Competition; Product Launch; Product Development
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    • 26 May 2023
    • News

    Harvard Business School's MBA Class of 2023 Celebrates Class Day

    • Web

    HBS - The year in Review

    faculty and staff with an eye toward identifying and responding to trends. Faculty Total 324 Female 30% Minority 31% Staff Total 1,454 Female 65% Minority 27% More Key Faculty & Staff Metrics Commencement Celebrated Harvard Business... View Details
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    The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details
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    Recruiting Calendars - Recruiting

    1st Year Academic 26 May Memorial Day University 29 May Commencement University Past Events Mar 2025 + – 17-21 Mar Spring Break (no classes) University Feb 2025 + – 17 Feb Presidents' Day (no classes) University 10 Feb Open Day (no... View Details
    • 25 May 2022
    • News

    Four HBS Students Win Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society

    • 04 Oct 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

    Journal next year. The three professors commenced their research with field data from a national pizza delivery chain, mailing out questionnaires and successfully surveying fifty-seven pizza store managers and 374 employees about their... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 25 May 2022
    • News

    Meet the 2022-23 Leadership Fellows

    • Web

    Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

    Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks Dean Srikant Datar addresses the MBA and Doctoral Classes of 2024 during the School’s 114th Commencement. Published May 29, 2024 Working Groups Update... View Details
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    Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

    your application. Complete the online application and upload supporting materials (see below) prior to the deadline of April 9, 2025, at noon ET. Important : Compile all your answers and documents prior to commencing the online... View Details
    • Web

    Dean Nitin Nohria | About

    2014 January 2013 January 2012 January 2011 2020 Commencement 2019 Commencement 2018 Commencement 2017 Commencement 2016 View Details
    • Web

    Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details
    • 21 Apr 2020
    • News

    Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) and Mezuo O. Nwuneli (MBA 2003) to be Harvard Business School’s Class Day Speakers

    • 12 Apr 2018
    • News

    Carla Harris, Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley, to be Harvard Business School’s Class Day Keynote Speaker