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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock options. During the bull market years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
earning a $15,000 runner-up prize. Shortly thereafter, the three founded Sonation and renamed the product Cadenza. Chao and her cofounders met with Apple last fall and are focused on developing an iPad and iPhone app for Cadenza, the first in a series of products... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists
in new HBS cases and videos over the last five years. The targeted effort to boost the number of female executives featured in cases and discussed in classrooms at HBS and beyond was launched by the School in 1997. Leadership support for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Gompers, Merton Honored
The 2002 Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research, offered by the Rodney L. White Center at The Wharton School, has gone to Professor Paul A. Gompers and coauthors Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick for their paper “Corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
I am thrilled to address you in my new role as president of the HBSAA Board of Directors. I look forward to using this vehicle to update you regularly on the work of the Alumni Board as well as other programs of note to the greater alumni community. Because the work... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
students would regard simply as home away from home. By all accounts, they succeeded. Angela Crispi (MBA ’90), associate dean for administration, recalls life on campus pre-Spangler. “There was so much energy in the classroom, but once... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
FIRE AWAY: Each Learning Team built a catapult that was intended egg at a target 25 feet away without breaking the payload. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL It may have looked like all fun and games, but the MBA Class of 2008 orientation in late... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Letters
experience with us and for their dedicated service to our country. Lawrence F. Twoomey Jr. (MBA ’75) Naperville, Illinois More to the Story Your March article about Iraq states that the “new mission” of U.S. and coalition troops is “rebuilding a country devastated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Ghosh Is Entrepreneur in Residence
Shikhar Ghosh (MBA ’80) has been named the HBS entrepreneur in residence for 2005–06. A veteran of the technology sector, he was chosen by BusinessWeek and Forbes as one of the leading Internet and technology entrepreneurs. Ghosh will... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
Illustration by Eduardo Recife The large tome looks its age, which is roughly 160 years old. Bound in leather, an average page, of which there are about 800 in the volume, includes almost 100 eye-blurring lines of pen-and-ink script. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Wang Papers to HBS
Important corporate records from Wang Laboratories and personal papers of the company's late founder and CEO, Dr. An Wang, were recently donated by his family to the Baker Library Historical Collections at HBS. Computer memory technology... View Details
- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
Maurice Obeid (HKS/HBS 2012) made clear in a passionate opening statement. In his remarks, Obeid, who is from Lebanon, echoed some of the personal anguish expressed by Arab-American Sharjeel Kashmir (PLDA 4, 2007) in the current... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
event hosted by the SEI and several student clubs, Whitehead spoke with HBS students at a session titled “John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership,” moderated by HBS professor of management practice Bill George.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
budgeting, management development, and performance reviews are needed to ensure timely implementation of the organization’s goals and strategy to the highest standards desired by its leadership. Selection: The leadership in any... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
generated more than $190 million in revenue, launching hundreds of new companies that employ thousands of people. "There's a lot of pessimism out there about the economy and where society's going," says Nigam, "so I love being surrounded View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
“Pathbreaking.” That, in one word, is how HBS professor Ranjay Gulati describes the impact of Organization and Environment. The book was published in 1967, reissued by Harvard Business Press in 1987, and won the Academy of Management’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Nyquist reported that such emissions could be cut by a third through greater efficiencies. He also noted, however, that meeting the lowered emission goals set for 2050 by the Intergovernmental Panel on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
CLOSING THE GAP: Bill George makes a point about how business leaders often are chosen for the wrong reasons. He’s flanked by moderator Jonathan Kelly (HBS ’08) and HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. From Enron and WorldCom to Hurricane... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
hired to jump-start a moribund division of the investment bank. Parson’s success at generating business was offset by performance reviews from supervisors and subordinates that painted him as a poor fit in the firm’s collaborative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reflections on the “Artistry” of Teaching
Christensen’s wisdom is remembered and often quoted by former students and colleagues from HBS. At least one chairman of a major national conglomerate still carries with him a copy of the yellowed notes he took in Christensen’s Business... View Details