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- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
roles do each of you fill within the organization? MGA: “My official title is Secretary and Treasurer, but we are small enough to remain flexible and fill whatever role is needed at the time. Austin still... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
Exchange. "The role of intellectual capital is more important in this business than any other, except perhaps the pharmaceutical and computer science industries. Oil is a hugely volatile commodity that very few people want to play in, so... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
into an innovation team or innovation community and everyone in that community makes a different kind of contribution that elevates the entire thing. The director was Tommy Kail. He creates structure. He creates deadlines. He becomes an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
boardrooms, academia, and the business press to examine their roles in sustaining or promoting worrisome flaws in the process corporations use to fill their top office. — Laura Singleton (MBA '88) HBS Press Books in Brief As the recent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
sector, was quickly given a major role implementing an important new “customer service” outreach to parents. Utilizing input from principals and parents, a “parent coordinator” was hired for every one of the city’s 1,200 public schools to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
more activist, informed patient, particularly around choice when buying health insurance, and in asserting that the health-care industry must be more innovative. She has long advocated for “focused factories,” health-care providers that would integrate their healing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus—and her daughter’s exams. Political maneuvering, miscommunications, and administrative meddling nearly jeopardized the project, but perseverance paid off. Catapulted into a national crisis,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
billboards on district properties. (Both pass.) Motion by motion, the wheels of government turn as the clock ticks later and later into the evening. A motion for a local swim team to rent the high school pool. A motion itemizing salaries... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
able to accomplish so far, but doesn’t want all the credit. Just about the only topic that lights up his voice more surely than dynamic glass technology is the team he’s hired — including CFO Mike Armsby (MBA 1997) — to make the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
COVID-19 treatment facility in the Philippines. “Most of the HBS Club of the Philippines alums here have become role models and have set a high standard of private-public sector collaboration,” says Morales. Here are a few of their... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
(AASU) conference was renamed in remembrance of H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33), a leader in industry and a pioneer in business education honored for his role as a mentor to generations of African Americans. Held the last weekend in February... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
admired and respected McArthur were legions of HBS alumni. Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) noted, “Early in my career John took a chance and hired me, and we became lifelong friends—our families were literally intertwined. I’ve since had the privilege of serving in many View Details
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- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
forming a new national stock exchange, leading early IPOs of Indian companies like Wipro and Infosys, and overseeing early diversity and inclusion initiatives in her role as head of HSBC India. After retiring in 2015, Kidwai co-founded... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
old person's car. They sell to a whole range in their market. And what all these companies do effectively is they have intergenerational design teams that help develop products for older adults. And another area where we see stealth... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
on effective professional feedback, honing it in roles at tech icons Apple and Google. The idea? Radical candor, or as Scott (MBA 1996) defines it, caring personally while at the same time, challenging directly. At its base, she says,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
embarked on a career as a successful venture capitalist. Then, in 1980, the role of entrepreneurship at HBS changed dramatically with the appointment of Dean John H. McArthur. In one of his first acts as Dean, McArthur elevated the status... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
FedEx for shipping some of their products, driving up demand from three packages a day to thirty. It was enough to save the company. FedEx’s strategy in these early years was simple: deliver time-sensitive packages with speed and certainty. But Smith and his View Details
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
Bohnet, van Geen, and Bazerman are important because joint evaluation leads to fairer outcomes, decreases the role of stereotypes, and boosts the bottom line by elevating the impact of performance-based merit in hiring decisions. Bohnet,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
just kind of look at all this,” says Mawilmada. “I like to imagine what it might be when I’m an old man.” His tone is a bit dreamy, but there’s an underlying current of urgency as well. As head of investments for Sri Lanka’s Western Region Megapolis Planning Project,... View Details