Media Businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

a step-by-step path to make a difference in the face of what can seem like an overwhelming challenge. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Jen Flint talks to Pal about the pandemic’s impact on both her business and on global... View Details

06 Jan 2017
News

Mental Illness and the Workplace

the first time I had a psychotic break in my second year at Harvard Business School. When I looked back after that, I realized that I had actually had symptoms as early as fourth grade, but it really wasn't until I had that break, that I... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are captivating. Baer’s career in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

scrolling through Instagram and that, "Oh, must be nice to be in Havana right now," or all these sorts of things. But talk about its applications to business decisions, to being an investor. How does that manifest itself? Patrick... View Details

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct halves to their careers, a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Books Integrity. Kindness. Hard work. Substance and value. Are these the words that describe a media mogul? They are when it’s the late Frank Biondi, the former CEO of HBO, Universal Studios, and Viacom, who leaves a legacy far beyond the... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel... View Details

Career Coach

Jan Pianca

MBA Admissions. Before joining HBS, Jan worked as a Marketing and Communication Manager for Austrian Airlines in Milan. As a career coach to alumni and students, Jan welcomes the opportunity to assist individuals with their job search, particularly European... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

leadership. They want to know how you figured it out when the shit hits the fan, right? DM: Right. JI: So the financial crisis was brutal. It's hard to describe how tiring, how embarrassing, how awful I felt every day. And our business... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

Burlington, Massachusetts-based, Rochester Shoe Tree Company, the country's leading manufacturer of private-label shoe care products, where he directed all new business ventures and substantially increased the firm's base business. Last... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

in the rural areas of Georgia hit hardest by the epidemic. Fresh from a meeting with Georgia’s attorney general, business leaders, and law enforcement officials, Shaw told Langford about a presentation made by tech billionaire and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

markets is a sector notorious for its lack of differentiation between players. Once location has played out its magic, retailers tend to get squeezed in a business characterized by the infernal duo of low margin and high fixed cost. In... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This was, at its core, a View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners,... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as... View Details

Keywords: Dean

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

picked the word “zipper,” and one of the guys from England made up this elaborate business theory that intertwined something or other (I can still picture him intertwining his fingers as he spoke) that in the end he claimed was called the... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? With little academic attention focused on this question, Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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firm's first of two major reports, in which it declared, "Africa's economic growth is creating substantial new business opportunities that are often overlooked by global companies." More recently, however, countervailing analyses and... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

supply chain and its parallels to the business world. It was a long deployment; the fact that we didn’t experience a single loss of life is an awesome testament to the training and stamina of the crew. The ship is now in dry dock, and I’m... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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