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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
shared crowded dining facilities with Executive Education participants and had no place to study or hang out, forcing them to disperse to their dorms or off-campus residences. And the Au Bon Pain in Shad Hall was too small and limited in...
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- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
percent of the children are vaccinated against the virus. And the price of the vaccine is negligible, says Schrader—around 5 or 10 cents. "It's not cost that limits it," he says, but rather infrastructure: Vaccines rely on a complex and...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
first Outstanding Educator Award. Christensen’s “Second Adventure” Christensen turned his attention to case-method teaching in the second half of his career at HBS. HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
optimizing rather than balancing my time. When I am with my child, I give him 100 percent attention, and in a few short minutes he is off to another activity. Likewise, I arrive at a board meeting well prepared and make it known that the other members have my undivided...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East
of Taiwan's Acer Group and a pioneer Asian brand-builder, to raise his hand. (Throughout the conference, Shih was a case study of the dynamic CEO: when he wasn't in his seat listening attentively or in front of the audience imparting...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
seminars and participate in internships with member corporations. In addition, the Alliance has put a priority on helping each school develop an educational strategy focused on business practice. "Developing competitive niches is particularly important for schools with...
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Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
fact that so many business books seem to be “processed” and “packaged” in the same way. But ultimately, I decided that I was being too limited in my thinking, and that I should just try to write a book in a voice that my students would...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck Geeks & Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas Value Sweep: Mapping...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the need to identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risks at the top of its list of critical problems in need of legislative repair, along with limiting leverage and reforming the credit rating system (see Setting...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
for the challenge of educating and acquiring customers new to making large online purchases. But what the company didn’t expect was the absence of the infrastructure necessary to support e-commerce. Very quickly, Cahuzac realized that the company’s View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
that "our assets at P&G are our people and our brands." When Lafley was named CEO, the company was in a slump because of low earnings and low morale. It had lost focus on the basics. Lafley's inspirational leadership style, which emphasizes listening, coaching, and...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Our commission is conducting an Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment for the eight Arctic nations, looking at scenarios in which ice conditions and so forth are not the limiting factor. Are Northern people convinced that climate change is...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since being placed in conservatorship in September 2008. With their...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Rethinking the MBA
value-added by the MBA degree. Those questions, and the desire for greater attention to organizational realities, global perspectives, and leadership skills, have been getting more vigorous and louder. Second, this is very much a time for...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
training the subconscious to wake us up and bring us to attention when unwanted urges are just beginning to form. Illustrating the use of these tools with case histories, Goldmann shows how these tools improve emotional self-management...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
right to buy into privately held firms was limited to high-net-worth individuals or other businesses. Federal regulators have now opened up a world between the two categories, creating a new asset class in which “non-accredited investors”...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
bars handing out student or alumni e-mail addresses to commercial enterprises.) “My feeling is that rankings do serve a purpose by aggregating information for people who are trying to make a difficult decision,” says Kenny, who came to HBS in 2008. But there’s a View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
addition to writing and teaching about these larger issues, the School has the responsibility to focus society’s attention on them. The School will go from the periphery to the center of the University’s campus. Is that going to change...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Leslie Gold
attention until things fall apart. And they’ve gotten older: They don’t worry so much about their own sex lives, they worry about their daughters’. You’ve developed a new communications technology. What’s it all about? It’s talk-back TV....
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than traffic laws are to automobiling or...
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