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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Holger Rathgeber (Portfolio) The authors use a parable of a stressed meerkat community in the Kalahari Desert to consider why organizations rise and fall and how they can rise again in the face of adversity. Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
leadership, told us, “The few people on the Lehman board who actually had relevant experience were kind of like an all-star team from the 1980s back for an old-timers game in which they weren’t even up on the new rules and equipment. Fuld... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
fighter-pilot tests. But if finding the right stuff is a good way to identify top talent, why is it so common to see executives with a successful track record in one company coming into another company with great fanfare, only to be quickly dubbed a View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
Illustration by Neil Webb When the United States men’s National Soccer Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup—for the first time in 32 years—the critiques were scathing. Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl deemed it “the most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
changing too quickly for arm-chair strategizing to be useful. As a consequence, many management teams are stuck in a wait-and-see posture in response to extreme uncertainty in the post-COVID environment, while others are making panicky... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
book to be published next year. Bilmes cautions that the $92 billion figure is highly conservative for several reasons, above all because the team attributed zero value to households that failed to return the research survey (even though... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
that failure is an inevitable and necessary part of life. It happens whether you like it or not — sometimes as a result of your own (or someone else’s) error in judgment and sometimes simply because time and circumstance had a vote. Once... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to mourn the loss of Myra Kraft, who succumbed to cancer in July. While Bob Kraft's remarkable successes in the paper and packaging business, as a sports team owner, and as a philanthropist have made him a beloved figure in the Boston... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
manufacturer for eyewear companies. It grew over the years. Ultimately, the company would realize that it had a “diamond” in its own backyard, a core business that had been in the picture all along. Focusing on that core, the Hilsinger View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
of things. The 72 alumni were among 400 who returned to campus to join 936 students for the inaugural HBS Boardroom, a new RC capstone experience that includes first-year student teams presenting case-based management decisions to alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
we were at 93 percent execution of dollars as an enterprise,” says Stuckey. “Then, in 2002, it was 91 percent. In 2003, for whatever reason, we tanked by 36 percent.” Execution rates had a brief respite before settling around 60 percent, where they remained until... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
the case that the Clinton and Bush administrations and members of Congress of both parties pursued an extreme affordable-housing agenda that led to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Fannie and Freddie had not failed, requiring... 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 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
ultracompetitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. This book helps business leaders expand strategic thinking from the purview of... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Osmosis team (Editor's note: Shiv is cofounder and CEO of Osmosis) and the work we are collectively doing to improve how we educate current and future health care professionals. This recognition would not have been possible without the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
the conversation for me, and I think our failure is that we haven’t found a business model or a way of hearing them more. RA: Make the center cool and sexy again! I think the challenge that we have is to think about the different kinds of... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg