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Archival Collections - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions A Concrete Symbol The Exhibition Introduction Educating Business Administrators Core... View Details

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Managing the Future of Work - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing the Future of Work Course Number 1677 Associate Professor Christopher Stanton Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Course Overview and Career Focus More than ever, running a company is about managing people. This class focuses on... View Details

21 Feb 2020
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Style for Everyone

to really internalize into the core DNA of the company our approach. “The way that the service works today, through our flagship styling product, is she comes to our site and tells us a little bit about what she's looking for. Whether... View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2006
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Not a Regular Joe

positions. Her job really comes out of his policy statements. She is trying to re-create the Joe Wilson spirit within Xerox: Let’s create profits for ourselves because we solve problems for other people. What can businesspeople learn from Wilson? Develop a whole life... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Joe Wilson; Xerox; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2013
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Authentic Leadership

semester, students read chapters and complete exercises from True North, consider cases illustrating the core values of a particular businessperson's life, discuss the importance of real and consistent leadership that empowers others, and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun

Previously, Martin, at French mass retailer The Casino Group, and Giraud, at Euro Disney (with Bourguignon), had both proven their mettle as managers in turnaround situations. Martin and Giraud stress that Club Med's core business is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-112 Health Systems in the Developing World This note offers an approach to the evaluation of health care markets globally. It prepares students with a set of questions about... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

play interference in OnStar's early years, it never would have succeeded, Huber maintains. Today, he shares that experience with MBA students to illustrate a key lesson: If you try to do something profoundly disruptive within a large company, the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

world's premier regulator of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products and also of helping to lead the transformation of medicine to a molecular level. Current logistical challenges include ever-more rapid movement of products across national borders and increasing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

times that of other code posted at the site. To IBM's credit, this surprising level of external interest triggered an internal reconsideration of the software code. We know it today as the XML (Extensible Markup Language) parser, and it is a View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

outline a consumer-oriented research agenda that will provide individuals with good advice about core purchase decisions. My anecdotal experience is that many homebuyers search until they fall in love with one house, negotiate only for... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

throughout the program's curriculum? And how does each relate to the general manager's role in today's dramatically changing supply chain? Raman: The program addresses three core themes in depth. Competitive advantage from the supply... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

different in scope and age and mission: the Clark Foundation and Pfizer pharmaceuticals. These two organizations wanted to get rid of trachoma by the year 2020. "They both had very specific and clear core capabilities. Pfizer had... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

been a faculty member for 33 years after a career on Wall Street. And now I'm taking over a brand new university that’s just been established. Find your core mission. Find the thing that you're passionate about and throw yourself into it... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula

buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses — certain to be a driver of this century’s new economy — demand new management paradigms. For a core group of HBS... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

Business schools also have to think carefully about their curriculum. We’ve been talking about the need for corporations to adjust to a changing environment, increasing pressures to dial down the single-minded pursuit of profit and to integrate their financial, social,... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief

executing the company’s core strategy: using technology to differentiate GE’s products in the marketplace. At an estimated $30 billion globally for high-tech security products, it’s a market with plenty of room for growth. Parker is... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

07 Mar 2005
What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

be considered at the core of the meaning of a "market-based society"? And what professional organization would be able to define and enforce, presumably by delicensing, such a code of ethics? On the other hand, are we already... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2011
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Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

admire him for that, and did from the beginning. He always sticks up for people who are in trouble.” — Former HBS Dean John McArthur “In a single afternoon, I was stunned by Howard’s skill at cutting to the core of knotty research... View Details