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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
school was founded by a native of Uganda—and named after his current Massachusetts hometown—to educate AIDS orphans. Oriental rugs Brighton, Mass. Veronica B. Smith Multi-Service Senior Center “For their clients,” says Gogan, “rolling out...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
orientation may allow important innovations to languish, leaving a void that more entrepreneurial companies in the same field may successfully fill. While keeping close to customers may be critical for short-term success, Christensen...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
educational videos. The line between business- oriented entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs is blurry and easily crossed. In fact, as I have seen in my research as part of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS, service is one way to...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Promoting social enterprise in business
Aurora Rotes Casanova (MBA 2009) is helping promote more socially oriented projects inside companies and calculating their value. (Published November 2014)
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- 02 Dec 2019
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A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
today’s students do the same. Supporting People and Programs Barry notes that when he was at the School, there were few students from abroad and only a handful of globally oriented cases discussed, whereas now the numbers for both have...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
orientation to general management that is applicable in all situations — speaks to all students regardless of their near-term aspirations. The judges were also interested to see how entrepreneurship was integrated into some other key HBS...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own...
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Management
- 14 Dec 2017
- News
Making Movies Is a Class Act
stayed connected with the Christie family. Though Christie is enjoying a resurgence of attention of late—the film Murder on the Orient Express premiered last month and the BBC is adapting several stories for TV—when Abrams and Wood were...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
development. Tacit dimensions of human behavior can also point to new directions in product creation, say Leonard and Sensiper. In designing an automobile navigation system, for example, researchers at the product-design company IDEO noticed that some subjects...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
This raises a number of questions about who pays a lot...and who pays a little. Can sellers take low-cost subtle actions that will get the people who pay a little to pay a little bit more? Past research on social value orientation shows...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
of whom he was one). Hughes also ran two student orientations for members of the Class of 1998 (one last fall and one in January) - complex, time-consuming, and largely thankless projects. Expanding View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
and Budget, 1977-80, 1985-87 Northern Air Freight and Danzas Corporation, 1987-90 Why HBS? "I took a year off from college to work at Boeing. There were rows of engineers sitting at desks. After about six months, I decided I'd rather manage, so I shifted my View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm
Heinz Co., and will leave those posts early next year, the newspaper notes. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett noted that Britt Cool spent much of her time at Berkshire aiding struggling companies, including Benjamin Moore & Co. and View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
every case through that lens." O'Neill also became involved in the School's mentoring program with the Taft Middle School, and as General Academic Council representative for his section, he was a driving force in reshaping the orientation...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
today. Many of the field studies are oriented toward problems faced by small companies. Running and Growing the Small Company, an elective taught by Paul Marshall and Kent Bowen, picks up on this theme. We've got a lot of fascinating...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith
engineering orientation into business. How do you explain Starbucks' success? In the past, coffee was treated as a commodity, with quality secondary to cost. So when we offered a terrific product in an appealing environment, with all the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
mistakes might be punished, on these drilling platforms the orientation was more around learning from failures. Management put in place explicit processes for analyzing what went wrong and implementing procedures to address the problem....
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
create their own personal leadership development plan centered on five key areas: knowing your authentic self, orienting your moral compass, understanding your motivations, building your support team, and staying grounded by integrating...
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- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
equipment and manufacturing. “This is about trying to build food system activity all around different elements of the food system,” says Kendall. “It’s reflective of our orientation to the market approach.” That approach harkens back to...
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Margie Kelley
- 27 Jun 2017
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Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992)
Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992) Suzanne Battit will never forget her first week at Harvard Business School. She loved Orientation and felt particularly lucky to be a member of section D. “Classmates nicknamed us ‘the love section,’ because...
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