positive behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2001
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J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)

George P. Baker offered him a full-time faculty position at the School. Shortly after that, the Pentagon called again, this time asking Fox to be assistant secretary of the Army, the senior government official responsible for Army... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; J. Sterling Livingston; George P. Baker; Government

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

by Bob Flatt (MBA 1973) (Bright Sky Press) When Flatt was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he refused to let the news alter his positive perspective. He viewed the diagnosis as an opportunity: the disease gave him the gift of time to... View Details

24 Jul 2018
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How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft

described as giving her team “room to run,” and offering the following anecdote: Bridgette Link runs Modern Finance and has broad discretion to determine what kinds of tools will make the most positive impact on her staff. Link says her... View Details

26 Jul 2016
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Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze

company should “partner with more brands [and] structure rewards for retention.” Still other alumni, however, see risk: “Unless you go for original positioning that fits your brand (rather than replicating), you’ll fail,” said Alex... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight

Bank. The fund’s early performance, however, had not been impressive. It was the height of the dot-com frenzy, and Cooper was betting against the dot-coms. Although he was hedged by long positions in cheap, cash-flow-producing natural... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

be measured only in terms of its past when its leadership in information technology is pointing toward the future. As Barrett put it: "We spend a great deal of time at my company on IT. It's important - and it's good to see - that HBS is exercising a View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux

real, serious, sustained commitment to shoot for the pinnacle — and to defend and advance your position if you attain it.” Yet luxury’s challenge remains an ongoing enticement for Birnbaum and the other alumni interviewed for this... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2015
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Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

offers a look at where they are headed. The millennial generation is so large as to beg the question, are millennials a single cohort? There are millennial homeowners and millennial teenagers. Parents and the parented. What beliefs and View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

figure out how to find care for my family.” That contradiction was not lost on the budding entrepreneur. Marcelo’s family emergency shed light on a market need that she wanted to fill. After a stint at TheLadders, she accepted a position... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Feb 2001
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Porter Appointed to University Professorship

twentieth in a line of venerable positions endowed at Harvard since 1936. University Professors are encouraged to cross over disciplinary boundaries in their research and often divide their time between their "home" departments or schools... View Details

Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

alumni community. “I really liked being connected to other alumni, and Community Partners has helped me maintain a strong connection to HBS,” she says. “It was a pretty positive experience. I definitely plan to stay involved.” Now serving... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2004
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Massport, Back on Course

“Surely you don’t want me to hire somebody for a job that doesn’t exist?” The reaction from callers has been very positive and very respectful. Months of bad press after 9/11 must have crushed morale. How did you turn that around? Through... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

the 1968 timetable. But I think, for many African Americans, it was a very positive era in which we were living. Sometimes it was overshadowed by tragedy, but in my mind those tragedies really didn’t define the era. We felt particularly... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand

program’ systematically to improve the efficiency of marketing beyond the borders of the home country. Instead, he shouts: ‘Wake up!’ ” Throughout his career, in different ways, Levitt kept shouting. When HBS Dean John McArthur appointed him editor of HBR (a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2013
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The First Scrum

at parties. These were interesting people with real-world experience I would not have met otherwise, and so rugby had some positives from a career standpoint, too. INVITATIONAL RUGBY TOURNAMENT PROMISES EXCITEMENT, FREE BEER —Harbus, May... View Details

Keywords: rugby; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2008
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An American Story

positions had been filled. Undeterred, Boris had his two sons, Albert and Ted, stage a fight at the street corner. When the security guard left his post to break it up, Boris slipped into the building and talked his way into a job. That... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

Room sessions to connect HBS alumni mentors to Singapore’s startups and small and mid-sized enterprises (SME). “Our vision for the NVSC is to create a positive impact on the local startup and SME network by creating opportunities for... View Details