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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Faculty Books Fit to Compete by Michael Beer, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus Harvard Business Review Press In his 30 years of working in corporations, HBS professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
producing 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel a day by 2025. According to Enriquez, who directed HBS’s Life Sciences Project prior to his current role as managing director of Excel Venture Management, algae biofuels were once the darlings of the View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
competitors. An exploration and production company founded in 1967, CMS employs 180 workers in the United States, South America, and Africa. "Some of these mergers facilitate the purchase of properties that are no longer strategic to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
districts, and the development of specific strategic improvement plans for the coming year. Each team brings a real-world "problem of practice" to tackle at the session and leaves at the end of the week with specific action steps.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
mistakes might be punished, on these drilling platforms the orientation was more around learning from failures. Management put in place explicit processes for analyzing what went wrong and implementing procedures to address the problem.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
Pennsylvania. After earning her degree from HBS, Franklin worked in strategic planning for the Singer Company and later for Citibank, where she received a phone call from an HBS classmate working in the Nixon White House. He was looking... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
perfect set of slides to convince investors to back you and your venture. The authors, veterans of the startup world, show you how to create a compelling pitch deck and how to plan and execute a fundraising road show to garner financial support for your business. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
Management from 1960 to 2000," Nolan highlights the critical shifts in the four eras in the evolution of IT. The Industrial Era, he writes, created an automation mindset, while the Data Processing Era led to organizational transformations. He View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
came when it was selected to build custom-designed consoles and workstations for the Military Air Lift Command’s Crises Action Area at Scott AFB. That led to building all the consoles and workstations for the Strategic Air Command’s... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
a beaten track, people often try to steer you toward seemingly easier alternatives "for your own good." But for those who would blaze a new trail, I suggest a three-pronged focus: Embrace self-empowerment. Knowledge is power, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs seem extraordinarily timely given the recent revelations of questionable conduct by corporate leaders. The scandals naturally produce an anxious curiosity about how such leaders obtained power in the first place. In 1996,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a real-time gauge of hydration levels by View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
or competitive strategic analysis could measure. I learned that, as with so many things in Africa, the context was everything. It is hard to put a number on the “value” of reconciliation, but it is here where measures like social return... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
shoulder. “What the hell’s the Navy doing here?” asked one American airman as five more men emerged. Despite Green’s uniform, the men weren’t there under the auspices of the Navy, but instead at the direction of the Office of Strategic... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
socially responsible mission. There is tremendous inefficiency in the environmental community, and one of our goals is to facilitate the formation of strategic alliances between and amongst environmentalists and other sectors of society... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
demonstrate the solidity of France’s business ecosystem and the extraordinary opportunity of being an entrepreneur there. A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the World’s Scriptures by Only One Man (i.e., Jim Clawson, DBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
factors like wind and water. “There are strategic and tactical elements to sailing,” says Dillon, a native of Ireland. “You need to decide where you want to go and what your competitors are doing. It’s kind of an interactive game that’s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 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