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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
the country move around by truck, and trucks go where the people are—the East Coast, California, Dallas, Chicago, Denver. Because of that, my expectation is that vaccines will probably flow most easily to population centers—think NFL-sized cities—and then View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
own time and pace? There’s an on-demand video for that. They need practice? They need feedback? There’s adaptive exercises readily available for students. And when that happens, all sorts of neat things happen. One, the students can... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
A Chance to Lead
in the mutual fund business. An opportunity that in many ways you couldn't make up. Somebody came and went as the president pretty quickly in that era, and I sort of quickly replaced him. I was young—30, I guess—and formally became the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
School's impact on his own life: “There is no place else in the world where I could do this sort of research,” he said, after noting that being a student at HBS changed his life. “We have been able to create information that is having a... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
War II plane crash sites, were searching for remnants of a transport plane in Zavattarello, Italy. The team, Gruppo Ricercatori Aerei Caduti or GRAC, was set up several years ago to help collect these sorts of relics. Piero Ricci (GMP... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
and stuff. Yeah, you’re welcome to, to taste some of it. It’s like, it’s sort of seedy, it’s not like a modern fruit. Julia: It looks ancient. Ayr: It has... it’s sort of like figs and dates. I would say.... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
the ways and means of fostering art, which is often seen as a sort of afterthought of Maslow’s hierarchy, so to speak: Get your basic needs done and then move on to art. And yes, it often happens that way . But I often think of [poet]... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must have credible information about all View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 04 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What’s it Like to be an HBS Partner?
participate in things. We are equal in every way and that has been amazing. I sort of thought this would be two years on the back burner but instead it’s been a truly transformation experience for both of us. Plus, I actually think being... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
learn how to support these sorts of shared business models? If you were the CEO of an insurance company, how would you address the conflicts between this model (splitting ownership and usage) and the traditional, well understood, and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Patrick Chun
past, so that I can chart my own path now. But my grandfather’s scars are a constant reminder not only of his sacrifice, but also of my duty. A duty that his life embodied: ensuring my sweetest victories come from finding opportunities to enable those other than... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Startup Balancing Act
CEO and CFO were pleased with my performance and I soon realized that my first day of work was also a sort of interview. Over the next few weeks, I hope to find answers to my career-related questions and complete my project. It would also... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
a very good record which are the LBOs, almost never go for that sort of CEO. They look for an industry figure who really knows a lot about the business and that company—often a retired CEO. Q: Is it easy to predict who's going to be the... View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- News
Acts of Kindness
what God called me to do. Now, that's sort of a strange thing, and nothing happened for two years, until I discovered that the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches was looking for an executive secretary. I applied for... View Details
- 23 Aug 2020
- News
In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
money in,” she explains. “So they want us personally on the hook with skin in the game for everything we do. That sort of approach is actually what you need in this case. It’s government money, not my money, but the mentality is the... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
want to travel to all 54 countries in Africa? What was the sort of motivation for this undertaking? Tapon: I had never been to Africa before, and I had this grand ambition to visit all the countries in the world. There's 193 countries.... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
them. I showed up and I had no idea what to ask them. So I ended up sort of, how did you get here? All these questions. What we say is with the work you've done understanding what drives your energy and the capabilities you have and want... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
leads to action that produces needed results.” —Professor emeritus John Kotter (DBA 1972), That’s Not How We Do It Here!, a book written in fable form “It is now possible to build a new sort of firm that promotes open communication across... View Details
- 26 Jun 2008
- News
The First HBS Class Notes
Hinman Ave., Evanston." — is exactly the sort of dry recital of facts that we try to avoid in today's notes. The first class-notes photo, in the August 1926 issue, enlivened the notes in a staid way. It shows a get-together in Chicago of... View Details