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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
diagnosis of the Great Depression, and many observers offered a similar diagnosis for the Great Recession that took root in connection with the financial crisis of 2008-2009....
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- 01 Jun 2020
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All Hands on Deck
And more than 300 members of the MBA Classes of 2009 and 2010 shared their insights from navigating the Great Recession with this year’s graduating students. On the lighter side, students were excited that...
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- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
about the job? What do you find most challenging? “I enjoy most the moments when we can see our research and testimony, and the experience of our researchers, directly informing better policies—or helping to stop worse policies from being enacted. I also am fortunate...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics was beginning its View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
like a win-win for both parties. [An HBS Bulletin article in 2007 gave a detailed accounting of GoLite’s founding and eventual trademark sale to Timberland.] Yet it was not to be. The following year, as the Great View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
chain. We ran into the buzz saw of the recession just as we opened a fourth restaurant in a high-end mall. That’s now a couple of years in the rearview mirror, but you can’t deny that the recession had an...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
Second, despite an initial flurry of protectionism and inward-looking politics, it will become clear that the best way to lessen the severity of worldwide recessions is to increase the volume of interdependent trade among nations. Which...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
between participants. Elements of what makes the case method great need to be in every online course. You have to vary activities frequently, or people get bored very quickly. Lastly, I think there has to be a thread of storytelling in...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
purchase. It was a home run with our customers. Instead of losing them, we developed immensely loyal customers. Sahlman: I took advantage of the opportunity to avoid upheaval by pursuing the only job from which you can't get fired! Actually, my colleagues and I try to...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
have been a huge mistake. Two years earlier, she and her partner, Peter Strugatz, had purchased the assets of Great Harbor Design at public auction for $26,000. The former owner had invested $4 million in perfecting a durable building...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
since 1866 and end up being nationalized. Back in July 2007, before the trouble started, one American hedge fund manager had bet me seven to one that there would be no recession in the United States in the next five years. “I bet that the...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved being in the classroom and was...
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- 28 May 2019
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Cure All
excellent management practices would thrive. But if hospital prices have a wide range—even for the same service—then managerial quality can be very uneven. RS: Of course, there’s also variation in quality of care. LD: Yes, which is even harder to measure than price....
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- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
the student had interviewed industry leaders to better understand the barriers to growth that Indian private equity firms face — his analysis echoing findings from Sadun’s own research. “It built on intuitions that I already had, but seeing firsthand experiences was...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
three MIT scientists founded E Ink in 1997. “I was the business guy,” says Wilcox, who over time has held senior leadership roles at the company in areas ranging from sales and marketing to finance to R&D. Twelve years later, the company Wilcox now heads as CEO is...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating reality. It was a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
renovation. And although Fouraker had stopped the School’s runaway growth and shored up its finances, there were no guarantees that times would remain good, especially as the deep recession of 1980 set in. The new Dean would have to keep...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart
but growing quickly. What’s driving that trend? People have realized through the recession that they can lose their job, they can lose their home, but there can still be “life stability” if they have a great...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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In Review
Nohria reflected on his time leading the School and how students and faculty mobilized to respond to the pandemic. After all that the world has faced in 2020, it’s easy to forget that you assumed the deanship in the aftermath of an earlier crisis, the View Details