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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years,...
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- 22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
business and governmental organizations for greater impact in the next 20 years. Saleh Lootah (GMP 10, 2011) “The Forum invites key government, business leaders, HBS academics, and alumni CEOs—all carefully selected from across the GCC—to address View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
was that McDonald’s had lost its monopoly on convenience—something the company pioneered with its drive-thrus and a core element of its brand. “We used to be one of the few folks that had drive-thrus at every restaurant. Well, lo and...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
online digital world, consumers are searching for ways to reclaim these values in many of the industries I’ve studied. What advice would you offer to an endangered industry? If you foresee your core...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Jeanne Jackson
most global businesses succeed because their core brand proposition has value across borders: Wal-Mart’s selection and low prices; McDonald’s convenience, cleanliness, and service; Nike’s commitment to...
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- 06 Jun 2012
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Fellowship Funder
School to help provide financial aid to a broad range of talented students who otherwise would be unable to attend HBS. “Commitment to meritocracy is one of our core values as a nation,” explains Mencoff....
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Books
provides a hands-on blueprint for adopting the core principles of e-culture: treat strategy as improvisational theater; nurture networks of partners; reconstruct organizations as online and offline "communities"; and attract and retain...
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- 01 May 2013
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Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991
have been fortunate to build a great business and invest in numerous ventures with HBS alumni around the globe,” Bilden says. “Knowing that HBS alumni share common values has been good for both business and friendships.” With many HBS...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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The Power of Many
Every Gift Matters Annual gifts from alumni and friends to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation are vital to the School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. HBS puts these gifts to use immediately to sustain View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
The HBS endowment consists of 1,000+ funds established over more than a century. These funds play a key role in sustaining the School’s core priorities. The $3.5 billion HBS endowment represents 9 percent of Harvard’s total $37 billion...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Having a Ball
founder and CEO of a Virginia technology company, snapped it up through his Stafford Foundation. “We’ve gotten away from the core values that made America great,” Stafford told the Washington Post (December...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
lecturer Robert Eccles moderated the discussion. Nohria, noting that the book turns on just a few key concepts (see sidebar), asked how some of the book’s core ideas had come about. “It’s hard to figure out where ideas come from,” said...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out
fields, which could be deployed to build a host of complementary AI tools—like a picking arm that could be bolted to Burro. But weighing the potential value of its data against the resources required to build View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But veterans often struggle to translate their time in the military...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2009
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Alumni Books
CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (DBA ’03) (Harvard Business Press) The authors recommend that to combat the IT-as-cost mindset, CIOs use IT to create three kinds of View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
conveyed than with the task itself; I’ve used that knowledge again and again. What opportunities do you see as the economy emerges from crisis mode? When it comes to technology, we all have the same core desires to do things smarter,...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
they do. Turf battles often result when each division is more concerned with protecting its own territory than with maximizing the value of the whole. A perverse hierarchy, one that rejects ideas from below, often evolves. And when a...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an integrated model that addresses the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
a number of categories that will prove important when considering the CEO’s role: Direction: A core function of leadership is setting the strategy for the organization, and setting specific financial goals that the organization will seek...
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