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31 Aug 2020
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Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

few at the top who have already made it. Transformation has to take place on the front lines and the middle levels as well. This takes effort and time, perhaps more than many organizations are willing to invest. Inclusion may present too... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jan 2024
News

On the Road to Recovery

Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country.... View Details

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

inclusion in the corporate and public worlds and for personal service as advisor to Governors and other public officials on economic issues. Rosabeth M. Kanter : Won the second place 2011 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard... View Details

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus , you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own,... View Details

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

who happen to be in excess supply around Oxford or Cambridge. And you may place your lead marketing operation in Japan where your consumers are most demanding. Specialization is about where you create centers of excellence—and that may or... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

14 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022

from his toddler days. But I still asked him, “Are you Calvin from that piano place on the Kartini Raya Street?” Of course, he said yes, and the rest is history. Calvin is warm, sunny, and highly optimistic. He is my best friend and... View Details

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

at how that anxiety can change the outcomes of negotiations. In order to induce anxiety in participants, she asked them to listen to the theme from the horror film Psycho; others heard soothing classical music instead. Then she placed... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

responsibility to engage everyone and to try to read every student and find the key to unlock how that person learns. I want to figure out how I can support them in the learning process. Lagace: What demands does it place on you? DeLong:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

their underlying technologies. She found that devices based on certain technologies placed in already existing product categories did not take as long to approve as devices using the same technologies that were View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

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Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry

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01 Sep 2023
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End Game

tools and sell them out of his car to support his climbing and surfing habits. Business was good for Chouinard Equipment, and soon it was the biggest supplier of climbing hardware in the country. Eventually, Chouinard realized that hammering steel spikes into View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2008
News

A History of Women at HBS

Training Program (1946–1955), to the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (1956–1963) — the last step before complete integration took place with the admission of eight women into the MBA Class of 1965. The faculty and... View Details

Keywords: Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

Environment Club Co-President) interned at NextEra Energy and spoke about how she “met with NextEra representatives while helping organize the 2017 Energy Symposium, which gave me an edge in the recruiting process.” The Symposium will take View Details

Portrait Project

Navroz D. Udwadia

with drinking water and electricity in every village. Millions of people exploring life, expressing talents and living in peaceful prosperity. An India governed by upright leaders capable of shepherding the country to its rightful place... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

Even while he was growing up, Michael Porter, the School's C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, knew a thing or two about the world. The son of a career Army officer, he lived in many places in this country and... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

13 Jul 2021
Blog Post

A View from the Horizon

places and cultural backgrounds. We stayed up all night studying together, then got grilled all over again the next day by Dr. Cash and the other professors. That week was intense—and life-changing. It revealed new possibilities to me,... View Details

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Magashe Ngoepe

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? Under COVID, the world is full of uncertainty. The MBA helped place certainty into my life and compelled me to pause and reflect on new paths and opportunities for the future. I got... View Details

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

spring meeting earlier this month. "This is a place where we work hard, we are focused, we are cutting edge, for the public good," said Weinzierl, who is also the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration. During... View Details

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