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- 01 Feb 2001
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Books
book with the title Can Japan Compete?" It was some nine years ago, at a time when Japan's economic success was overwhelmingly credited to its government's involvement with industry, that Porter and his team began an in-depth study of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
As the Bulletin celebrates its 75th birthday, this is a good time to reflect on the principal topics the magazine has covered over the years. In paging through 75 years of Bulletins, we found a remarkable amount of ink given to matters... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
find new and important ways to add value for our alumni constituency. The Alumni Association Board of Directors meets three times a year on campus, as well as at each annual Global Alumni Conference. At these meetings we hear about new... View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
really just a means to help me form and develop my ideas. The first month, I sent it to 20 or 30 friends. That’s the only marketing I ever did for it.” Since then, the Business of Fashion has grown steadily at a rate of over 100 percent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
president of its Americas division, a post he’s held since 2005. Believed by many to be on course to be Ford’s next CEO, Fields has had a rich apprenticeship. After graduating from Rutgers University, he joined IBM in sales and marketing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
need to align their in-the-moment thinkers with the big picture and their strategists with practical day-to-day sales operations. But you don’t have to take Cespedes’s word for it—though he does head HBS’s executive program on this very topic and has led the Strategic... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States. I found that there was a huge opportunity to disrupt the intimate apparel space. People are so tired of high prices and slow fashion from Victoria's Secret, and I knew we could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
wat. Although built around a temple and housing a contingent of monks, each wat also serves as a social and community center and frequently hosts market days and carnivals. It’s hard to convey the pervasive role of monks in Thai society.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
School's first program with a major e-learning component and to train one-on-one coaches to support a more individualized approach to learning. In my own research and writing, I am currently working on two topics: what it takes to lead and manage talent in emerging... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be put to the test. Much has been... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
MILLS: Many business leaders do not know enough about markets and business practices abroad. In his many years of teaching and research on the topic of leadership, HBS professor emeritus D. Quinn Mills developed a “natural concern” about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
CEOs can meet their challenges once that top position is achieved. The book covers the importance of family, effective time management, discipline in all its meanings, and the relationships between the CEO, the board of directors,... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he briefly had a job creating facial-recognition software for airports. An entrepreneur at heart, he then launched and ultimately sold a successful instant messaging software company. That sale, in 1999, allowed... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Feb 2022
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Turning Point: Ready or Not
Mansoor Basha (GMP 13, 2012) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Mansoor Basha (GMP 13, 2012) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) At the start of the pandemic, I hunkered down like everyone else. But as time went on and the death toll rose, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
could be with us to talk about Harvard's information-technology path for the future." "We were delighted that both President Rudenstine and Dean Clark could be with us to talk about Harvard's information-technology path for the future." The View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
not want to confront, because these tires greatly diminished the need for replacements. And since the replacement market was the only place they could make money, this meant the end of profitability unless there was a fundamental change... View Details