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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
now. There's just a lot of friction in that job market. Ethan Bernstein: Meanwhile, the way in which organizations and managers have been taught to retain and develop their people is really still rooted in some respects, back in the... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
finding anything that resembles a national purpose these days. The most powerful forces in society today, he argues, are what he calls microtrends. “The power of individual choices has never been greater, and the reason for those choices... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
more than three decades. “The House That Howard Built,” written by senior associate editor Garry Emmons, celebrates Stevenson’s achievements as the driving force behind advancing a research agenda that legitimized entrepreneurship as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
business. These essential insights for enduring and optimizing the middle miles will outfit managers to find their way through the messy middle of any bold project or new venture. Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Company, Consultant 1983 Named Partner, Bain & Company 1987 Named Managing Partner of San Francisco office, Bain & Company 1992 Named President, Bain & Company 1993 Named Worldwide Managing Director, Bain &... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
of 1997, we are racing ahead,” says Teo. As a leader of HBSA-HK, Teo runs one of the most popular events on the club's calendar: the Distinguished Speakers' Forum (DSF). The DSF hosts prominent leaders who are so sought-after that Teo and his colleagues are routinely... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself managing an... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
working with consulting clients—Wilson was able to move on to his studies with Raiffa and others who were developing a new approach to using economic theory and mathematics to drive strategy and management decisions. JH: And tell me what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
the Middle East, Armenia, and the Philippines have buoyed sales and enabled Scharfman to double the size of his workforce to 100 over the last five years. “Our selling point is that we make ‘homemade,’ ethnically authentic cheeses, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
shows how a culture that has existed for centuries can be warped and transformed by external forces like war and colonialism, and how members of an ethnic group migrate to survive not only drastic changes but economic realities. Borders... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
acted when the stakes were high; from his growing depth as a moral actor; and from his sheer will to get up each morning and do what he could in service to his mission. In early September, Union forces scored a critical military victory.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
forestall the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil. The case is dedicated to Waleed Iskandar (MBA ’93), a colleague of Rivkin’s at Monitor Company, who died in the 9/11 attacks. The focus of your work is on how to manage integration within... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
Management consulting doesn’t lend itself to a balanced diet. Always on the go for her projects at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) would grab whatever packaged food appeared healthiest to her. For a long time, she sought low-calorie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
quickly, a job hunter should target two hundred positions. These are not job openings, but two hundred positions you think may be right for you. For example, if there were thirty appropriate sales positions (not openings) at a certain... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
weight is assigned to the various answers. “I think people would be surprised just how different the methodologies are,” says Brian Kenny, chief marketing and communications officer at HBS whose office manages the data requests that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
principles to guide it. This is the challenge. Managers must rise to it, for they are the force at the center of the storm." Managerial Decision Analysis Series four new titles by David E. Bell and Arthur... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
group, Depatie oversaw Kimpton’s $430 million sale to the InterContinental Hotels Group in 2015 before stepping down to co-lead KHP Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm focused on boutique and independent hotels. Spun out... View Details