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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
MAYO: Since the 1970s, the MBA has become a necessary credential to pursue the inside track to corporate power. So much of what business schools teach is focused on making the right managerial decisions at a particular moment in time,”...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
shortly after returning from teaching in the program's first session at Wits. "There was an enormous power that emerged from the enhanced communication and respect among participants from different backgrounds and professional sectors - a...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
pharmaceuticals. According to Bower, this "homogeneous mix" - a group that was demographically diverse but similar in managerial function - brought significant advantages to the classroom. "The participants' shared perspectives created a...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
that the traditional manager versus leader argument ("Clark Kent versus Superman," he jokes) tends to undermine the value of management. "There are lots of people who look and act like managers, who have excellent managerial skills, and...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
age of 88. Chandler was perhaps best known for his book The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1978. In it, Chandler argued that management, a visible hand, had in some...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
business? Howard Raiffa, the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, Emeritus, at HBS, is a pioneer in the development of decision and negotiations analysis. In Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions,...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Prusak identify the social elements that contribute to knowledge sharing, innovation, and high productivity and show how nearly every managerial action can enhance or diminish an organization's social capital. Profit from the Core: Growth...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
effectiveness. Organized in two sections, the book opens with an examination of leadership and change and then looks at how successful managerial work today is less concerned with wielding power over others...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Emmons, the "deregulatory" Telecommunications Act of 1996 enhances the powers and responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission in a number of key areas, while removing government restrictions in others. "From a View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
turning managers into lawyers,” she emphasizes. “Most managers already have a full plate. However, managers who possess even a basic understanding of relevant legal issues can help their companies become better not only at complying with the law, but also with...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
with a very different set of competencies, connections, and ways of thinking about management. You need to look beyond functional areas and try to discern companies’ managerial practices and patterns, as well as how they are viewed by...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
prayer as a point of distinction for the group, something special." Stuart also drew on principles he considers to be spiritually based to help him handle the sometimes overwhelming challenges he faced as a managerial leader. "I tried my...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
to give our clients immediate access to cutting-edge solutions and technologies in the field. How must organizations change to remain competitive in the new economy? Organizations need to transform themselves in several ways, and they need to start with their core...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
and the MBA elective The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. Koehn's research and writing focus on branding, business strategy, and connecting with customers and on the broad range of economic, social, and organizational transitions that...
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- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
groundbreaking research project was the impetus that would bring a steady stream of professors, managers, and other participants from Russia and Eastern Europe to HBS. "At HBS," Vlachoutsicos recalls, "the perception was that Soviet power...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
The Power of Women Related LinksThe Accidental Pioneers From Where We Stand Celebrating the Women of HBS W50 Summit Registration A Daring Experiment exhibit Women's Student Association 2013 Dynamic Women in Business Conference Kathleen...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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New Releases
in the world of digital communications will lie not in knowing how to engineer big technological breakthroughs but in how to develop products and services by creatively combining new and existing technologies with innovative managerial...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Light applied to the MBA Program...
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