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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
initiatives. He also was chair of the Finance unit (1986–88) and senior associate dean, director of Faculty Planning (1988–94). He took a leave of absence in 1977–79 to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
2010 Leadership Fellows
AIDS Vaccine Initiative; Trish Carlson, Partners In Health; Rebecca Arnold, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Lindsay Steinmetz, Ford Foundation; and Whitney Petersmeyer, Teach For America; (back row) Stella Treas, Special Olympics;... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
uncomfortable with that notion. One first step would be to have a woman vice president. Gerald Ford is reputed to have said that America will have a woman president after a woman becomes vice president and succeeds a male president who... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
manufacturer like Ford Motor Company. Ford cooperates with its suppliers to design new vehicles even as it negotiates vigorously with them over the terms on which parts will be supplied. By cooperating to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan Thomas J. Watson The runner-up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
students straight from undergraduate programs and promoting internally without requiring an MBA. The global economic crisis only added to the chorus of concerns about the MBA degree. The Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation reports in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
“Even incremental small wins can contribute to what we call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor. Amabile’s current research focuses on the psychology of everyday work life: how events in the workplace influence subjective... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
Political candidates are often said to be marketed just like consumer products. But there’s a big difference. Consumer marketers such as Coke and Pepsi or Toyota and Ford focus on building up their brand, not on tearing down their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
the paper, reading books.” —Joe Hinrichs (MBA 1994), president, the Americas, Ford Motor Company, on the company’s recovery strategy “[We] met as a team and committed to each other that we were going to find a way to get this done without... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Jan 2014
- News
Harvard Meets Ballet
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
helped promote highway construction. Some complements to the automobile already existed. One was loans - but here, too, carmakers took an active hand in making them more accessible and attractive. First General Motors and then Ford set up... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
made by Japanese manufacturers during that time. Now, however, the overall perceptions of key competitors have dramatically changed. Toyota, in particular, has a significantly diminished reputation due to highly publicized recent recalls. At the same time, View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
Fouraker was named the School's Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration in 1968. When he became the School's sixth Dean in 1970, Fouraker assumed the George Fisher Baker Professorship, an endowed chair that was then... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
would you do if Ford said, “Boy, we could take the car as is, but the cockpit would be very different if we conceive of it as a job.” Imagine the differentiation that it would bring to Ford. It is not just a compact anymore. + ONLINE... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
that give us the most delight put us in control," he observed. Next week: Michael Porter's six-step plan for dramatically improving healthcare value, with insights from leadership at the Cleveland Clinic, Partners Healthcare, and the Henry View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
city of seven gleaming skyscrapers built in the 1970s. A relic of a time when the Ford family shaped the city, it was once home to the Ford Motor Company. The tallest of the buildings is now topped with the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
Japan. Nixon resigned. Gerald Ford inherited, and lost, the presidency. Reaganomics replaced Carter's idealism. Communism moved toward capitalism, and our class, as well as our society, faced challenges and opportunities we'd never... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 25 Oct 2018
- News
Bringing the Background into Focus
unable to find a museum job and was turned down for multiple postdoctoral fellowships. Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, was sent a copy of her dissertation and described being “flabbergasted” that she had not found work.... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
important to have a fully engaged society. “I was at Ford for 13 years and I left to join Carnegie about seven years ago. It’s one of the few foundations that I’ve seen that actually really keeps close to the original mission of its... View Details