business education - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2016
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Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game theory and decision analysis. A... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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How to Fix Wall Street

cannot ensure good behavior. Nor can it guarantee the good judgment and sound decision-making that we so desperately need from today’s financial and other business institutions. For that, we need business... View Details

Keywords: Lynn Paine; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
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Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership

HBS professor Michael Tushman has been named the first incumbent of the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professorship of Business Administration. Tushman is internationally recognized for his work on the relations between technological... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak

really good learning experience, but consulting never felt like my calling.” On her business card now: “Climber, ultrarunner, adventurer, photographer.” Home is : “An apartment in Boulder that now serves as base camp.” By next spring she... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1997
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Learning from the Past

works know themselves less well than they might, and to their cost." Strassler credits his successful business career with giving him the time and wherewithal to undertake and finance the project. In 1963, he and his associates took over... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson

and fund-raising projects. Outside Harvard, he visits with amputees and trauma victims and is working on a national awareness campaign with Easter Seals to educate amputees regarding the availability of aesthetic, upper-limb prostheses.... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Jun 1997
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Ronald P. Mitchell

deficits," says the genial second-year student. As president of the Student Association (SA), one of Mitchell's primary tasks was to bring concessions - student-run businesses offering goods and services such as stationery supplies and... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

Senior Corporate Advisor, Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Harvard College, 1969 A.B., Government LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "By... View Details

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

keep that history, and that original mission, in focus. “David recognized early on that the web was absolutely transforming the way the media business in general functioned,” says James Bennet, the Atlantic’s editor in chief and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

08 Sep 2022
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Learning Curve

teacher who is now head of school, set the simple educational philosophy—“just teach them”—which entailed meeting the students, academically and otherwise, exactly where they were. Melcher served as president and handled the View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

responsibilities,” she explains. “So to say to students ‘We have a carbon crisis, what can managers do about it?’ will be interesting.” “I’m delighted to be at Harvard. There’s a great deal of interest in these issues, and the question of what students can do as future... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2007
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Getting Security Right

MILLS: Many business leaders do not know enough about markets and business practices abroad. In his many years of teaching and research on the topic of leadership, HBS professor emeritus D. Quinn Mills... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

sector deliberating the global business imperative for sustainability in the face of climate change. The Institut de France “Sustainability is becoming a major topic in companies, and especially in Europe,” says François-Xavier Oliveau... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2016
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Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board

pursue your business career as aggressively and professionally as you can so that when and if the opportunity arises you will be recognized for your expertise and interpersonal skills. It does not hurt to make sure you have developed some... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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The Check Is in the Mail

the glimpses into lost business structures and lost lives.” Organized by Baker Library Historical Collections, “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of Personal Credit” is on display through June 3 and can be viewed online at... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Aug 2002
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Class Day & Commencement

(Finance), who also won the award last year. Next to take the podium was Class Day student speaker John Brown. An MBA degree from HBS is not an end itself, Brown noted, “but rather the education here is a trail map helping us to see a... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Floor It

the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

01 Jun 1999
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo

Organizational Behavior Over the past four years, Sheila Lirio Marcelo's alarm has rung at 4:00 most mornings, rousing her to start her day as a student at both Harvard's Business and Law Schools, a part-time consultant in Cambridge, and... View Details