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- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Actually, we like to see them fail as often and as early as possible," Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke said with a wink as he watched students in his elective MBA course Managing Product Development (MPD) set up their display booths...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
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Books
strategy," notes Mills. To help managers fine-tune these techniques, the book offers guidance on developing global opportunities; changing the local corporate mindset to a global one (and filtering that way of thinking down to employees);...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
aware that combining career, family, and school may be too much. In addition to working in several other government positions, Meyer previously served as chief director of management and executive services when Mbeki was deputy president,...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium
most in need of improvement. Given the fallibility of human beings, creating a work environment in which it is possible to learn from one another's mistakes should be a key priority for managers in any field. Edmondson tested her View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
masculinity and how such conflation disadvantages women in the workplace. On the two platforms in this study, management had implemented some innovative approaches to leadership development to reduce unsafe behaviors stereotypically...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
the December/ January 2008 issue of the Academy of Management Journal in which they question the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that “conventional MBA...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Ballroom dancing, painting Recommended Reading Einstein's Dreams, by Alan P. Lightman "Written by a humanist/scientist, this is a compelling collection of fables focusing on various conceptions of time, as seen through the imagined dreams of young Albert Einstein at...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
Bezos. Now a lecturer at HBS, Leschly is researching the applicability and adaptability of private-sector management practices and theory to educational reform. In addition to The Entrepreneurial Manager, a...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Sister Soldier
actor managed to put in place. They aimed for a participatory democracy where women and men govern together. Women are co-heads of every town they govern. A women’s council was created in every town these fighters took back. It is the...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
core skills they need to become integral members of their company’s decision-making teams. It emphasizes decision making and the implications of decisions. While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
lot of what is taught by our finance faculty — I’m thinking here of André Perold’s work — is in fact historically focused. His cases on Long-Term Capital Management are the best things written on that subject. But elsewhere, I think the...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Globalization Revisited
was no disputing the significance of Levitt’s contribution to the theory and practice of global marketing and to the ongoing assessment of its impact. As HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow noted of Levitt’s work, “It’s all in the question,...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest...
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- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
picked the word “zipper,” and one of the guys from England made up this elaborate business theory that intertwined something or other (I can still picture him intertwining his fingers as he spoke) that in the end he claimed was called the...
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