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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
Ted Johnson, a linebacker with the New England Patriots. “This is a great setting for learning how to make a smooth transition.” Players admitted to being pleasantly surprised by how hard they worked. “People have been up late talking... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Allawi Illustration by Jack Unruh After spending much of his adult life in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, London-based businessman Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) couldn’t say no to an old friend who called to offer him a... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
start by choosing the product they want to make or the service they want to provide and then try to convince the market to buy it. It makes more sense to start a business the other way around: Identify what the market needs first, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
of all time lines” by its chief architect. This year’s reunion participants can sign up for a video storytelling session while on campus. So can attendees at the Centennial Business Summit in October. If you don’t plan to be on campus... View Details
- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
and distort” campaign allegedly motivated by his quest for a big profit if the company faltered. At the firm’s urging, New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer launched an investigation, and the Securities and Exchange Commission followed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
business world, at home and abroad, and look ahead to things to come. Our Centennial coverage will culminate with a report on the Global Business Summit slated for October 2008, by any measure the biggest gathering of HBS alumni and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
Massport came in for withering public criticism over lax security. The CEO abruptly resigned. And a special commission appointed by the governor concluded that years of political interference had eroded the agency’s ability to function in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
didn’t set out to be magazine publishers or, for that matter, to even work together. Each married a classmate and went their separate ways upon graduation. By 2001, they both were technology executives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
As we wrapped up our writing assignments for this issue, I was struck by how many stories dealt with the same topic: entrepreneurship. The articles themselves aren’t big, but what they say about HBS is. The heady dream of starting and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
Three stories in this issue will introduce you to remarkable individuals who work in strikingly different fields but who share a common passion — the pursuit of ideas that are changing the way others think and act. Gayle Lemmon (MBA ’06), featured on our cover, is one... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
the point of the book was to explain where this extraordinary system came from and to explain it component by component so that readers could understand the financial system as the product of history, and as one of the key factors in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Issue Focus: Leadership Illustration by Craig Frazier What HBS Learned from West Point The Evolving Case Method Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Making the Leadership Case Related Faculty Research What Top Scholars Say about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Illustration by John Kachik Depending on which business school ranking you consult, the best MBA program in 2010 was at the University of Chicago, HBS, the London Business School, or Stanford University. Among the five leading media... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
providing advice for communicating more clearly why English proficiency is important for Rakuten’s future. “This is not just a Japanese company issue,” Mikitani points out. “Other companies doing global business also have been segregated View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
Price: Building next-generation buzz for an essential—but often misunderstood—species. (photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post/Getty Images) Like a hands-on chief executive who loads pallets and leads merger talks, the bees in Dan... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
instead provide distraction by answering something they would rather have been asked. And what is more, oftentimes their listeners either do not notice the verbal sleight of hand or do not mind it. New research View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of... View Details