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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
improve their ability to approach the public, make plans, and set goals." Baxter worked at the "Grandma's" cookie division of Frito-Lay before coming to Interbake Foods in 1987. His earliest priorities included updating production View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
corporate wellness market by partnering with health plans and employers, and has expanded into more general health and wellness areas, with apps for people who want to eat better, for instance, or be more fit. After discovering that their View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
HarperBusiness The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital platform businesses. The authors explore five major themes: 1) the world’s most... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
general management tour of duty,” says Marcelo, who found enthusiastic mentors at the young company and was soon asked to join the management team. Also during this time, a frightening family incident helped... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
interconnections among technological innovation, management science, entrepreneurship, and national economic growth. The book is organized around three units of analysis: the national economic system, the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
low-emissivity insulated glass, dynamic glass changes tint on demand — so you can “instruct” it to block or allow solar heat and light based on outside conditions. Mulpuri’s delight in this technology makes perfect sense. He’s a materials... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
long-term goal of buying and managing his own company. Sharpe, who hired his wife, Debby Stein Sharpe (MBA ’81), as CFO, sold Extrusion Technology (an aluminum extrusion fabricator) to a private equity firm... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
employer and employee, Nomad manages the process, from background checks to malpractice insurance to payroll. It charges health care institutions a 15 percent commission for each hire—a transparency unheard of in a sector in which the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
Africa, China, and Eastern Europe," he recalls. "There's always pressure to take a somewhat trodden path, but I saw people from completely different backgrounds, and I realized how many opportunities had been given to me." His classmates inspired him, but so did the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
consumers have a voice. These new technologies have empowered consumers to monitor and manage their own diseases. MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: The Digital Transformation of Health Care A New Approach to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
only been done in rats, at Massachusetts General Hospital.” After HBS, Green worked at Monitor for a time, in which capacity he advised South Africa’s African National Congress, among other assignments. In 1996, he and a new management... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
plant seeds that ultimately blossomed into his now rapidly growing young company. At a business event in Washington, D.C., a Microsoft marketing manager buttonholed Hall about the electronic ID card. Microsoft had tried offering free... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
hand, some technologies have come and gone: Witness the VHS tape, which killed the Beta format, only to succumb to the DVD. And I would never have guessed that managing in a regulated environment and process... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
teaching, technology is helping faculty engage students in vivid, minute-by-minute decision-making, which adds a dynamic new layer to the traditional classroom experience. A key part of curricular innovation, investments in educational... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
used to be that you looked at the fraction of foreign students to get a sense of how global the class is. Today, students may say “I have an American passport,” but they’ve worked in four or five different firms and countries. Dean Nohria on View Details
- 05 May 2011
- News
Blazing a Trail for Glenn Beck
president of the news division in the digital sector and later as senior vice president of CBS Interactive and the general manager of CBSNews.com. While Beck is best known for his political commentary, his interests range far beyond... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
In January 2000, Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980) announced that he would step aside as worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, a position he had held since 1992, and become chairman of The Bridge Group, a new Bain affiliate. Tierney's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
one of Bill’s great traits is that he inspires confidence, which is an important aspect of leadership—not false confidence, but knowing when your instincts are right and being less willing to compromise in a management context. I spent... View Details