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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation
If a blueprint existed for educational innovation in the MBA Program, it would be informed by one guiding principle: create opportunities for students to identify and pursue their passions and to make a positive difference in the world....
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
What Fellowships Make Possible
The ripple effect of their generosity is evident far beyond the HBS campus. photo by Evgenia Eliseeva “Fellowships bring together individuals from different circumstances who each have their own dreams of how they might make the world a...
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- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
Although he had led major divisions of large companies, this was the first time Burwick, now 55, would be CEO. Started by Alfred Peet in 1966 in Berkeley, Peet’s has been a popular Bay Area company with a strong brand, said director of...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use the center View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
purchase monthly shares by weight, rather than à la carte, resulting in a fulfillment process that is “relatively complex and pretty unique,” Cummings says. Every order—with 5 to 30 items, selected from 100 products stacked on a...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea Hugill Abstract—Outsourcing firms increasingly rely on social auditors to provide strategic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2011
- News
Last Look - March 2011
class is being taught by General Mills.” David Krieger (MBA ’00) and Beth Ferguson (MBA ’01) agreed. Beth provided details: “These chorus women were the troops to General Mills (Andrew Vogel)Â as he sang ‘I am the very model of a modern...
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Keith Larson
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
there, nor will she be the last: A student-led Immersion Experience Program (IXP) to Haiti is scheduled for January 2011. Organized by second-year students Andrea Ellwood, Brent Gibson, and Kathleen Hebert,...
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- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Fifteen years ago, while Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) was a student at HBS, he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Harbus, about his observation that the student body’s social...
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- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and...
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Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies - Creating Emerging Markets
CEM video clips were also played during a short mid-session break. The speakers were Chinmay Tumbe (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India), Jeffrey Fear (University of Glasgow, Britain), Sudev Sheth (Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania), View Details
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Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
in the sixteenth century. Its decline paralleled that of the Hapsburg monarchy, whose wars they financed. (Plate 128 from Custos, Domenik. Contrafehe der Herrn Fugger . . . 2nd ed., 1620.) 61 Georg Fussel (b. 1601) view image Engraving by...
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- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Exploring Asia at the Crossroads
ranging from "Japan: What Happened to the Miracle?" to "Competing for One Billion Customers: Telecommunications in China." Twelve of the conference's panels were moderated by HBS professors. The gathering also featured social events and...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
purpose gets real,” says Serafeim. “Top executives must have a vision, but it’s the implementation by middle management—the space between where strategy gets formed and where it gets executed—that is so important.” “Corporate Purpose and...
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Erin Peterson
- 25 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Africa Business Club
awareness in the HBS community about investment and other business opportunities on the continent with the aim of creating more ventures and deals in Africa. Integrate the coverage of African countries and businesses into the HBS curriculum through the development of...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
Illustration by Andrea Manzati You'll see a theme emerge in this issue's stories on health care: The industry has a number of deep-seated challenges that it is just beginning to face. It's a pen-and-paper...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
an enterprise, not a charity: "We're trying to set up a system that, as it becomes more useful to people and is used more, will be inherently better funded because it's funded by the end user." Adapted from an article, View Details
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eyeglasses
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
David Wetherell, chairman and CEO of CMGI, and Andreas Schmidt, president and CEO of AOL Europe. In all, sixty CEOs and founders, along with representatives from over three hundred companies, participated. For more information on the...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
Jung Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., knows a thing or two about reinvention. After taking over the venerable beauty-products firm in 1999, she helped it shed the last vestiges of its “Ding-dong, Avon calling” image...
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