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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
do — to ensure that all children can reach high levels of achievement. “My focus at NLNS is on building the managerial and instructional leadership skills necessary for a principal to be truly successful,”...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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A Trusty Board
its board. "There needs to be a sense of the difference between the fiduciary responsibility of the board and the managerial responsibility of the paid staff," he says. While the role of MBAs as museum managers has expanded in recent...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers
They became skilled at watching the bottom line, managing scarce resources, and forming relationships with government and business organizations outside the company. At Abbott, young MBAs most often were placed in sales. As a result, they...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Faculty Books
developing innovative products and services. He discusses the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs; managing experimentation and problem-solving; product-development process design and improvement; and development strategy and project...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
who can bring Western business practices and managerial know-how. And if we don’t come back, who will?” Mlotok hopes to leverage her skills through a position in growth-oriented venture capital/private...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes
white-collar employment is structured," he says. Gathering data from four temporary staffing agencies that focus on managerial and professional talent, Bradach interviewed 26 skilled temporary workers...
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Judith Ross
- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
of the board of the local YWCA and decided to come in once a week to help out. I soon realized that nonprofits could really use the skills I had — finance, marketing, planning. I saw that many nonprofits didn’t know who their customers...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart
enjoyed their own versions of success with the mega-retailer. Getting a ground-level view of how two companies achieved those positive outcomes illustrates the story-within-a-story of implementing corporate change. “Achieving that is where macro concepts, micro...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
from friends such as feminist Gloria Steinem and investor Warren Buffett (a major Post shareholder), Graham gradually gained the personal confidence and management skills that enabled her to build the Washington Post Company into a highly...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
and evaluate data-driven insights to inform managerial decisions. Giving Executives New Insight Through its Executive Education programs, taught on campus and online, HBS is advancing business leaders’ knowledge of the digital world,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
and economics who draw on data to inform managerial and policy decisions, they decided to see if they could use their skills to examine gun violence in America. Today, nearly seven years later, research...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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A Force for Good
MBA students, the program provides up to 20 fellows a year with the opportunity to work in nonprofit or public sector positions, giving those organizations access to an MBA’s managerial and analytical skills...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation
Pelkins Ajanoh (MS/MBA 2022) and Nembu Emmanuel Photo courtesy Pelkins Ajanoh The earthy cassava root is a dietary staple for millions across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. For Pelkins Ajanoh (MS/MBA 2022), the tuber was also the starting point for CassVita, an...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
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A Message from Dean Clark
the skills and knowledge our graduates will bring to their jobs but also on their values, their attitudes, and their character. To reach this goal we must continue the long-standing tradition of innovation in our educational programs....
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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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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
figure it out, someone who shouldn’t, will,” Peterson warns. This is the kind of in-the-trenches managerial decision-making that a new HBS Executive Education program for health-care administrators aims to help. Launched last fall,...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
lives in the Bay Area and has closely followed the career of his first-year HBS study group friend. “The park was a keystone in the team’s rise, and Larry was all over that, but he also has great competence in media, marketing, and community relations. His unique...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Alumni Books
innovative concepts and models (including The Managerial Target); and describes, interrelates, and integrates about 100 gurus’ major concepts, processes, models, and practices into a single unified practice of management model. The Speed...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
neighbors. Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything by Charles Conn (MBA 1990) and Robert McLean Wiley Complex problem solving is a critical skill, and necessary to keep up with rapid change. But this kind of...
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