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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Publishing Many companies make disruption their goal. They believe that if they develop the right innovation, they will disrupt their markets forever and drive the kind of growth worthy of a magazine cover story. But as bestselling author... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
kiosks stationed here and there; almost every one I pass has a student logged on. I find my way to my first class, Assistant Professor Andrew McAfee’s Operating an E-Business. Right off the bat, McAfee sets up a presentation on a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
was a systems thinker, GMP gave me new ways to think about how to align incentives and manage an ecosystem,” he says. “It had me sit back in an environment that’s challenging, asking, Am I following the right strategy?” The GMP program... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Everyone benefited from what was a very simple idea.” Wagner doubts that Levitt would have much patience for the froth of marketing advice available today: “When people write entire books about one tiny idea — he’d already done it, in a chapter. He would have cut View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
interesting work and a chance for advancement were foremost in my mind. Right after graduation, I married, moved to California, and became pregnant (in that order), so my first jobs were below the MBA level: market research at Carnation,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
it’s psychological. Life feels like it just keeps moving faster! We are not the first generation to experience such quickening, but it’s never affected so many people before. I think that overall we are not quite sure what to do with the rapid speed with which the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the only full-time, musician-governed orchestra in the world.) It was arrogant, perhaps, offers John Reeks, a Lower Ninth Ward native who joined the orchestra as a woodwind player right out of Loyola University in 1973. “But we said, ‘We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
periodically blown up other emerging markets. Having already devalued the renminbi in 1994, and having retained capital controls throughout the period of economic reform, China suffered no currency crisis in 1997–1998. When the Chinese... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
discriminatory practices engaged in by one's organization. "Far too many of us, having achieved a certain level, will not reach out to help others," Graves declared. To be truly successful, he said, "you will have to stand up for what's View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Chicago, after completing a successful capital campaign, the MCA built a new home for its collection. Given that it is located in the center of a city known for its affinity for architecture, it is not surprising that the MCA's 1996... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
capital for midsized companies. Because capital raising is controlled by the state, it tends to go to state-owned enterprises. That is a big problem for a lot of privately owned businesses and has created... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company to buy and run, move to Atlanta with my young family and spent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
(bottom) and today in retirement. Says Houghton, “Perhaps the spirit of leadership is the spirit that is not so sure it is right all the time.” Photos Courtesy Corning Inc. Archives (bottom); Justin Ide (top) The case “Corning 1983–96:... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
training. Finally, Three Chimneys manages the breeding rights for eight stallions, which Clay cites as the segment of his business with the highest profile and greatest returns. Smarty Jones, winner of the 2004 Kentucky Derby and... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
conceptually I do not want it to be about me. In fact, there's not even a picture of me without a helmet on right now, nor is my name mentioned yet because I'm still grasping with how much I want to expose myself, quite frankly. But I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
adapt faster, move faster, and grow faster by capitalizing on uncertainties in the market; leverage the talent, assets, technology, and data that exist outside your company; get in sync with customers; gain early insight into changing... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
really funny and-- well, funny's not the right word but a really eye-opening story. I was actually telling this today. So right out of HBS, we were non-funded, working out of a makeshift office. And one of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark
I've had all the help and support I could have asked for, beginning right here on campus with our faculty, staff, and students, and moving out to the University context and to our alumni and other friends. It's a wonderful job. BULLETIN:... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce Ferguson (MBA 1979, JD 1981) and Scott Webster (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
dean. Then, in 1991, a chance encounter with Morgan Stanley’s John Mack led to a position on Wall Street as the firm’s chief development officer, responsible for human capital and issues of organizational strategy and change. “Like the... View Details