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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Is there a particular skill set involved in working with celebrities and professional athletes? You need to do well with ambiguity. It’s not a situation where the CEO has a five-year plan to execute. Most talent hasn’t worked in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
breakdown was hastened by Enron’s turbocharged incentives, which offered executives enormous bonuses tied to estimated future profits and a very generous stock-option plan that paid out richly as Enron’s stock became increasingly... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
walked into a dorm full of girls shooting down the banisters in bare feet and ripped jeans.” Just do it: “I’ve found that there’s never a perfect path to achieving our vision. We’re always torn between planning and doing. It’s in... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
third stage of my life. But I’m planning to live to be 100, so I still have the second half and perhaps a few more careers out there.” Photo by Dan Demetriad View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
of Planning and Development under departing Dean Kim Clark. Light, the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, is a member of the fifteen-person faculty group involved in advising Harvard President Lawrence Summers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
produce cheaper and better-quality cars than Detroit, and insisted that American consumers would buy small cars. Implementing that heretical idea, McNamara successfully introduced the compact Ford Falcon and even planned to produce a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
practical transit development. Now, BRT is “in,” with extensive applied and planned programs around the world. In the future I hope we can hold on to our good ideas longer and move forward with them, instead of always having to rediscover... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
also has developed partnerships with more than 850 hospitals across Andhra Pradesh that will provide 108 patients with 24 hours of free medical care. Hospitals that had been initially reluctant to sign on to the service quickly came around as they realized that EMRI’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
some truly Olympian details to take care of, including planning for 2 million spectators (joined by 3 billion television viewers, or 60 percent of the human race); 15,000 athletes and officials from 197 participating countries; 30... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Immelt had spent his second year at HBS reflecting on his career path, and he decided that he was more interested in being an operator than an investor, accepting a position with a lower salary at GE. Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) His initial View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
they see the need for it, but we have to go and develop it ourselves outside of the founding arena, is going and having that long-term plan, but being open to the opportunistic. That makes it even more critical for us to be good at being able to shift gears, being able... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
in the planning room one day when a US Navy SEAL walked in the door, and asked me if I've heard of Operation Red Wings. So we talked for a little bit, we opened up a map, and he pointed to a place in Northeastern Afghanistan called the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Donatella Versace. It is so much fun planning for Burning Man, organizing, thinking, scouring thrift shops. That's all part of the Burning Man experience. This idea of radical self-reliance means you don't buy a costume in a costume shop.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs themselves. That’s the angel group’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
telehealth to our advantage more than we have in the past. Because now the providers have ripped off the bandage. Telehealth procedures are in place. The health insurance plans are seeing the benefits and the cost savings. Beyond that,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
their new positions, while only 38 percent of those promoted from within leave their new posts within the same period. Outsiders don't fare as well as insiders because they don't adequately plan their transition into the new organization,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
misperceptions that surround hedge funds, one of them being that the funds were driven by meticulously planned and well-coordinated malign forces. Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins (MBA ’91) (St.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
— water provision to the urban poor, water education, and environmental protection — that reflect the social issues we can address as a water and wastewater service provider. These programs were carefully planned so that they can help us... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
It was a great way to end my tenure as board chair,” she observes. In all, Brooks has lived in, worked in, or visited 85 countries; and she is not done yet. “My goal is to hit 100; I would really like to go to Antarctica,” she says. In the shorter term, she and husband... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
unlike cord-blood or adult stem cells, are unique for their ability to develop into any cell in the body. (While the HSCI does not as yet have a permanent physical home, it may one day become HBS’s Allston neighbor as part of the University’s View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons