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- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
executive director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, joined the HBS Club of Wisconsin on October 6 for a virtual discussion about the shifting paradigm of orchestra management during the COVID-19 crisis. Moderated by club board member... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Richard Lou
larger role was to manage the developments themselves. A property in midtown Manhattan became the 20-story Wyndham-branded hotel with 92 rooms; a second property in SoHo became a 120-room Courtyard by Marriott. In between, Richard took on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
MBA in 1938, Mace remained at the School as a research associate before being posted to England for military service in 1942. There he worked with Robert S. McNamara (MBA '39), a friend and fellow HBS faculty member, to help set up tracking systems for Army Air View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech startups over the past 20... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that... View Details
- 16 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process
importance of transparency in the recruiting process. For Meredith Hamilton (MBA 2008), clear expectations helped her navigate recruiting as a student with Bipolar Disorder and ADHD who understood that managing her hypomanic and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to allocate resources among new areas to explore for petroleum and new sources of energy and to develop managers with the capability of leading those businesses in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
climate report warns that harmful carbon emissions have never been higher in human history. First, the encouraging news: Data analysts at EVAdoption.com reported record sales in the U.S. in the first half of 2021, despite global chip... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
faced. There is also a second cause, one that has its roots in the changing shopping experience. During the 1960s, European retailing began moving away from personalized service and toward new self-service sales formats. Abetted by the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
making the most of limited resources. I am eager to support government partners in navigating this complex landscape and expect I will learn a lot about policymaking, multinational cooperation, and financial management along the way. By... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
make your choice. There is no perfect answer." Hunt's blunt advice, which was reported in the Boston Globe, may well resonate with the significant number of HBS alumnae who have struggled with the difficulties posed by following a traditional View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Suzhou amid COVID-19, while exploring the bigger problem of China's labor shortage of migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations, next spring. California Research Center—When the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
United States specializing in sales promotion, design, and direct marketing. But WPP wasn't small for long. In 1987 Sorrell made an astonishing move. Using both debt and equity, he bought one of the most famous names in the business, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the founder and CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl;... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
this work? Smith: “There are certainly the tangible skills that have proven to be helpful––how to calculate a cap table, how to design a ‘go-to-market’ plan, etc. But perhaps even more useful are the intangibles, like confidence. As much as I disliked it, being View Details
- 14 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise
thought business school would be my savior, prior to applying to business school, I ended up being “rescued” by an international opportunity to work in Chile at a non-profit called Endeavor that mentors and supports high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. After... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
we should be experiencing a resurgence of productivity in marketing, measured in terms of less waste in advertising, more clearly focused sales effort, and fewer product, service, and brand failures. However, it also raises interesting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
those in the Class of '71 were destined to earn their MBAs during one of the most turbulent social and political eras of our times. Turbulence within the class, in the form of widely divergent views on the day's events, was also in evidence. A petition urging corporate... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg