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16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

historians to move beyond incremental additions to the literature and instead return to tackling big subjects with major importance to the future of business. "Rehashing past controversies is not a sign of a vibrant discipline, but of one whose View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

March 2017
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Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Amram Migdal

This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The case focuses on their research... View Details

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23 Oct 2019
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Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

HBS convenes an annual Digital Transformation Summit that explores the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow’s technology. The most recent summit, held in February, focused on artificial intelligence and drew some 500 professionals and scholars. HBS convenes an... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

01 Mar 2017
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The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation

alumni would look back and say, ‘This education enabled me to lead a fulfilling life that I couldn’t have led otherwise.’ That’s the big ambition here,” says HBS’s Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business... View Details

07 May 2008
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The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

Date: April 17-18, 2008 Faculty Chair: Richard S. Tedlow Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: The Intellectual History of the Harvard Business School: Six Case Studies What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The colloquium had three... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education

01 Mar 2011
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Keeping Up with the Dean

to outline his five areas for change: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, international engagement, inclusion, and closer ties with the University. Click map for larger view. Illustration by Baker Vail/www.smallworldmaps.com View Details

Keywords: academic administration; alumni; curriculum innovation; intellectual ambition; international engagement; inclusion; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Small States in an Age of Empires: The Duchy of Parma's Colonial Moment, 1750–1770

By: Arnaud Orain and Sophus A. Reinert

Often thought of as the "Athens of Italy" during the Enlightenment, and as a microcosm of the Italian peninsula and of the eighteenth century alike, the Duchy of Parma played a unique role in the culture and politics of the age. This essay focuses on its "colonial... View Details

Keywords: Duchy Of Parma; French Empire; Internal Colonization; Enlightenment; Political Economy; Small States In World Markets; Guillaume Dutillot; Étienne-François De Choiseul

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Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

As Dean, building on... View Details

20 Dec 2010
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New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

piloting up a notch," said Nohria. 2. Intellectual Ambition HBS has a disproportionate share of the big ideas that have shaped the world of business scholarship, education, and practice, said Nohria.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

21 Jun 2010
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Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

financial crises, and weak intellectual property rights. HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu, authors of the new book Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution (Harvard Business Press), offer an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2024
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10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Merve Ciplak

wanted to find a way to “marry the fast pace and high intellectual caliber of the private sector with my inherent interest in giving back to the global sphere.” Long attracted to law school as a way to pursue her “interest in morality and... View Details

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

she said, “and I saw engineering as an opportunity to stretch myself and take me out of my comfort zone.” Several years into her career at Shell, Nneka noticed that the intellectual challenge of chemical engineering and her work in the... View Details

17 Aug 2021
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Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

therefore unavailable to cannabis firms as long as the substance remains federally prohibited. The cannabis industry is also disadvantaged by a lack of intellectual property protection. Intellectual property... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

city. It was against this backdrop that Dixon turned her career ambitions to music. “I thought that by becoming a hip-hop A&R person I could change the world, empower black voices, and also make music,” she says. There would be no bigger... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

22 Mar 2024
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

intellectual challenge of chemical engineering and her work in the refinery was a match with only one part of her personality. Yet, she also needed an outlet for her creativity. Nneka knew her next professional stop would be combining her... View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

that distinguish top performance." What matters to Egon Zehnder? Sure, the founder of one of the world's largest executive search firms believes that new hires must possess piercing intellectual skills and résumés that ring with... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

School's educational programs; Intellectual ambition for widespread impact; Internationalization to build global knowledge, Inclusion to enhance culture and community, and Integration with Harvard... View Details

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Research & Data Services for HBS Faculty & Doctoral Students | Baker Library

Research & Data Services for HBS Faculty & Doctoral Students We advance the intellectual ambition of HBS faculty and doctoral students by providing leading- edge services at every stage of the research... View Details

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Fangfang Wang

more than public sector support. “If you can’t engage the private sector and persuade consumers, you can’t get more people to use clean technology,” she says. Fangfang sustained an interest in using private-sector principles to achieve public-sector View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; CPG

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