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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman (MBA 1971) (AMACOM) These days businesses have more opportunities to enhance the customer experience than ever before. Goodman explains... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
what used to be called “automation,” the concept and term made famous by the visionary John Diebold (MBA ’51) when computers were virtually unknown. Today, in an increasingly knowledge-driven economy, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Middlebrooks, Gwen Shuster-Haynes, and John Weber in June 1983, while they were still MBA students. Checking in with them five years later, in June 1988, we discovered many ways in which their lives - and their perspectives on work and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Rare sighting
RARE SIGHTING: Four HBS Deans, past and present, share a lighthearted moment at the June 1 luncheon celebration in honor of Dean Jay Light, who retired June 30 after four decades at the School. From left, Kim Clark, Light, Nitin Nohria, and View Details
Keywords: deanapalooza
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
meantime, planning for the HBS Global Alumni Conference in Berlin continues apace, and we are thrilled to see that as of late April, close to one thousand people had registered to attend. This is clearly a record -- and a testament to the compelling program arranged... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
Tisch has long been committed to numerous philanthropic and social causes, including the Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem, a public high school established by his wife, Ann, in 1996 to provide a single-sex educational option... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
KIM: Working to alleviate poverty in India has strengthened his interest in social enterprise. Continuing a four-year tradition among graduating classes, members of the MBA Class of 2007 established a fellowship to support their successors. Chicago native View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
Image by John Ritter Is there a business case to be made for companies to act in environmentally friendly ways? Rebecca Henderson: If one can imagine that all business in the entire world was run View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Designing Students
(from left) Karena Wells, John Semel, Denton Chase, Lee Falck (partly hidden), and Rich Lim, all members of the HBS Class of 1998, demonstrate how to use the Vita-Tech 2000, a handy vitamin dispenser they created for the Managing Product... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
INK-STAINED ORACLE: Buffett's Media General bid focused on small-town papers. AP Photo/Nati Harnik by Deborah Blagg In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
of more than $8.5 billion, was started in 1978 with $9,000 on a credit card by a man named Bill Rasmussen, who got pushed out the door in less than a year. That early exit brought to mind John Kao’s class on... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Back in 1985, when Michael Jackson paid what at the time was an eye-popping $47.5 million for ATV Music—and with it the Beatles’s back... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Faculty Books for December 2016
Business By John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau (Springer) The authors introduce a model for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Alumni Books Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, and Peter Klein (MBA 1971) (McGraw-Hill Education) The authors provide a proven plan for making... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Shanghai. As we look forward to those upcoming events with anticipation, let me give you a quick status report on the important, ongoing work that our Alumni Board committees are undertaking this year. The Communications Committee, chaired View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held the previous year. But he has... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
When he took some skeptical conservationists to a meeting at agribusiness giant Monsanto’s headquarters not long ago, Richard Crespin (TGMP 4, 1999) says it seemed the only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
Leading Change by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Press) Total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, and restructuring -- innovations intended to make companies more competitive --... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
Manby (MBA '85) Courtesy Joel Manby Web Extra Undercover Boss: Watch the Joel Manby Episode As I reached out to shut off my alarm at 3 a.m. — wake-up time for my first day as a street washer — I wondered, “What have I gotten myself into?” Approached View Details