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- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
women) isn’t just a social good but improves performance within organizations and in wider economies. A London resident of two decades, Hunt serves on numerous UK boards, including the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, the Tate... View Details
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
I-Lab Hosts Start-Up Weekend Scramble
business ideas are viable. Some two dozen mentors and advisers volunteered time to help 125 students from across Harvard fine-tune their projects and pitches. By Sunday night, the field had narrowed from 32 pitches to 13 presenting teams. Taking View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
equally at home negotiating with Mexican guerrillas and sailing the world's oceans (with genomics guru Venter, among others). From 1988 to 1993, Enriquez served as CEO of Mexico City's for-profit urban development agency. Later, as an HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
price based on their final choice. This often occurs when the media and analysts react negatively to the new CEO. Homing in on a candidate who is likely to gain the favor of these external parties has therefore become important to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
with this eternal conundrum. Easy Rider Martin Snoey (MBA ’72) Age: 61 Home: Mercer Island, Washington “My sense is that life is not a simple sequence of events,” says Martin Snoey. “Instead, it’s a continual trade-off among career, family, hobbies, and community View Details
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Maura Sullivan
Maura Sullivan sees in HBS many of the same qualities that had attracted her to the U.S. Marine Corps. "Choosing the right branch of the armed services was easy," Maura says. "I liked the camaraderie, the discipline, the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
observed. One of the “lucky ones,” Brink worked for the telephone company before he set up his own one-man shop — Utilities Audit Bureau — as a consultant on telephone services and systems. “In 49 years,” Brink proudly declared, “I never... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved... View Details
- January 2014
- Case
CleanSpritz
By: John A. Quelch and Alisa Zalosh
Sales of CleanSpritz all-purpose cleaning spray have been steadily declining for the past five years, and management believes the decline correlates to a growing environmental concern among U.S. consumers. CleanSpritz's management is considering several options to... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Competition; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Product Launch; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry
Quelch, John A., and Alisa Zalosh. "CleanSpritz." Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-537, January 2014.
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Street Smarts
“Today, the car is a mobile computing platform,” says Mistele. “We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services around it.” For example, INRIX uses machine learning to provide customized daily routing advice... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
Reshaping Their Futures and Yours (HBS Press). The two countries together are home to roughly a third of the world’s population, and both are undergoing rapid social and economic transformation. Yet most Americans, asserts Khanna, are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
students would regard simply as home away from home. By all accounts, they succeeded. Angela Crispi (MBA ’90), associate dean for administration, recalls life on campus pre-Spangler. “There was so much energy in the classroom, but once... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
IRS Chief Charles Rossotti Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani Complete Table of Contents February 2000 No Place Like Home America's Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business Financial Services 24/7 The... View Details
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Dave Vitello
positive social impact. Overall, unity of self is important. I want to live the same values at home and at work and in any other setting, to be the same person wherever I am.” View Details
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
knew its impact could extend far beyond her own situation. It meant she could devote herself to Rocket Learning, the nonprofit she had launched in 2020 with her brother, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019), which leverages digital technology to View Details
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Tales Out of School
In 1994, Sarah Hoit (MBA '93) became director of business planning in the White House Office of National Service, designing and implementing AmeriCorps, the Clinton administration's $600 million national- and community-service organization. As she worked with View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
protect firm value, helping their firm better withstand negative business shocks. We formally explore two parallel mechanisms for such protection: one of building moral capital (CSR Contributions) and another of improving investor... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
overall, the companies that were successful had much higher performance. “Putting it into baseball terms, investors who relied on their gut feel had a lower batting average, but more home runs,” Huang says. In the current paper, she... View Details