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Student Association | MBA

social events, and, offering products and services to students (e.g., yearbook and the HBS Survival Guide). All members of the MBA student body are members of the SA. HBS is about the people — the relationships, peer learning, memorable... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

image by Edmon de Haro So you have an idea for a new business, product, or service. What are you going to call it? As any cash-strapped entrepreneur, product manager, or “creative” will tell you, that decision can be critical when it... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Fast Answer

IFC: LA/Hollywood

target="_blank">company alerts within Capital IQ. For a multimedia learning module on Capital IQ check out our Learn with Baker Library Capital IQ Introduction. LSEG... View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

pizza delivery to what he termed technologically-intensive ones, such as CD metallization and products for cell phones. All twenty-nine sites are closely linked to their country context. They also represent a variety of deal structures... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 22

than $1 billion each and changed their focus from record retailing and music production to a broader one based on airlines, health, financial services, mobile, and media businesses. In addition, Virgin had... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2000
News

Faculty News

pioneering African-American business leader. (More on the Fitzhugh chair will appear in an upcoming issue of the Bulletin.) Alan D. MacCormack, an expert in product development and the management of technology, is the first Lumry Family... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Profile

Frank Spencer

which became the national model for reform during the Clinton Administration. Since joining Habitat, Spencer has overseen a significant uptick in activity. In FY 2012, construction starts numbered 80; in the first four months of FY 2014, View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Services

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were weathering the worst financial crisis... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Career Coach

Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

Annette Rodriguez brings over 20 years of seasoned expertise in private equity, across business services, consumer services, and healthcare. She has dedicated her career to building teams and investing in and developing best-in-class businesses and management, across a... View Details

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25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

alliances is that "greater interaction will result in productive two-way learning: corporations can be enriched by finding out how nonprofits mobilize and motivate personnel, while nonprofits can learn more about marketing and View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

09 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

atmosphere in large quantities by capturing and storing greenhouse gases once emitted; and green hydrogen as a feedstock for steel production in combination with clean energy, which is a path to total decarbonization of steel production.... View Details

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

strategies. Consider Nestlé, a food company that reformulates its products in response to regional tastes for spices and sweets. In this "local value creation" configuration, the span of control for regional business managers is... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

01 Jun 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

they prayed." HBS's answer to Leno and Letterman, Larry Klein (MBA '80), who fully intends to keep his day job as an investment advisor, has recently packaged that and some two hundred other jokes to help financial professionals add a... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

tacit knowledge flows. These knowledge flows, in turn, contribute to cumulative incremental innovations in both product and process technology among firms embedded in the cluster. I use the term 'active inertia' to describe the tendency... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

functional proximity over base proximity when locating preventive health services. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51094 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Multi-Echelon Inventory Management... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2004
News

Boom Times Ahead

productivity cycles drive economic booms that are further powered by the explosion of new technologies,” explained the Sacramento Bee (October 5, 2004). People get excited when Dent gets bullish, because he’s been right on the money... View Details

Career Coach

Erika Osterling

Transportation (General Management, Services, Business Operations, Product management, Supply Chain, Expat), Cameron, Avery Dennison, PepsiCo (Marketing and Sales Strategy) View Details

Keywords: Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All)

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25120&i=25122&cs=0b17ff7f3d16c64e4a6b72b71b876054 2013 pub Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes? By: Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica Abstract—Does providing... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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