by April White - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out

the company’s revenues have increased by leaps and bounds. But the melamine pet food scare last spring could have ruined everything. The bad news came to a place it shouldn’t: Disney World. It was during one of the few vacations that Paal... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

aerialists. You will see a flaming piano being thrown by a trebuchet. And if your mind is closed and it's different from what you expected, you'll miss out. If you open your mind and just drink from the firehose, you will find that you'll... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

Photography by King Lawrence Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) is holding a manager’s meeting while driving 70 mph up I-75 in Kentucky. As Rogers pins his phone horizontally against the dashboard, his Local Motors team, gathered around a conference... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Association. Art has been a Fulbright Fellow in Lisbon, a Batten Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research has been reported on... View Details

22 May 2020
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Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

of the baby’s heart beat before leaving on deployment for four months. Instead we saw no movement. I was able to shift my departure date by two weeks. I remember standing on the runway with my wife and six-week-old daughter saying goodbye... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

Illustrations by the Voorhes Edited by Julia Hanna Complete and utter defeat was something Christina Wallace (MBA 2010) had never really experienced. Academically advanced and musically gifted, she attended... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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Print View - Course Catalog

Huber Market Basket Milo’s Tea Pentland Brands White Castle The core text for the course will be Harvard Business Review’s Family Business Handbook , written by Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. Grading /... View Details

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