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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
meetings efficiently, getting a quality product out the door, and managing your staff so that they’re happy, productive, and motivated. It’s often hard to find writers who also have the management skills needed to run a show successfully....
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Trusty Board
its board. "There needs to be a sense of the difference between the fiduciary responsibility of the board and the managerial responsibility of the paid staff," he says. While the role of MBAs as museum managers has expanded in recent...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Getting on Board
Membership on a corporate or advisory board seems like a natural fit for MBAs with solid managerial skills and career experience. But according to the experts, unless you are a prominent CEO, finding a seat...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
do — to ensure that all children can reach high levels of achievement. “My focus at NLNS is on building the managerial and instructional leadership skills necessary for a principal to be truly successful,”...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
figure it out, someone who shouldn’t, will,” Peterson warns. This is the kind of in-the-trenches managerial decision-making that a new HBS Executive Education program for health-care administrators aims to help. Launched last fall,...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Light applied to the MBA Program...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
a self-taught painter and sculptor. “I want to democratize it . . . make it available and accessible to everyone . . . strengthen it so the region can be recognized by the international arts scene.” To do that, Halwani realized he needed strong business and View Details
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
white-collar employment is structured," he says. Gathering data from four temporary staffing agencies that focus on managerial and professional talent, Bradach interviewed 26 skilled temporary workers...
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Judith Ross
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
deciding to try and come home. White: Hunter, you met these women because you had the managerial skills they needed. But what was it about this music project that spoke to you personally? Heaney: I've loved...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
pretty businesslike in your judgments,” he says, noting that even a backup player generally earns an annual salary of $1 to $2 million. “The financial skills I learned at HBS have been extremely useful in that sense. You need to be able...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
of the board of the local YWCA and decided to come in once a week to help out. I soon realized that nonprofits could really use the skills I had — finance, marketing, planning. I saw that many nonprofits didn’t know who their customers...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
the future and the managerial skills required of the "conflict-competent organization." Assistant Professor Patrick W. Sileo mathematically analyzes bargaining behavior and how people should select...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
enjoyed their own versions of success with the mega-retailer. Getting a ground-level view of how two companies achieved those positive outcomes illustrates the story-within-a-story of implementing corporate change. “Achieving that is where macro concepts, micro...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
from friends such as feminist Gloria Steinem and investor Warren Buffett (a major Post shareholder), Graham gradually gained the personal confidence and management skills that enabled her to build the Washington Post Company into a highly...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
and evaluate data-driven insights to inform managerial decisions. Giving Executives New Insight Through its Executive Education programs, taught on campus and online, HBS is advancing business leaders’ knowledge of the digital world,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
talent shortages. Anne Bonaparte sees it firsthand in her corporate customers: a lack of frontline security workers. “They’re not developers or data scientists,” she says. The workers they need range from entry level to managerial...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
and economics who draw on data to inform managerial and policy decisions, they decided to see if they could use their skills to examine gun violence in America. Today, nearly seven years later, research...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
who can bring Western business practices and managerial know-how. And if we don’t come back, who will?” Mlotok hopes to leverage her skills through a position in growth-oriented venture capital/private...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation
make a measurable improvement in life on our planet. Learning to build a successful company is a stepping stone to that.” At HBS, Ajanoh acquired the knowledge, contacts, and managerial skills to further...
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Deborah Blagg