Filter Results
:
(2,911)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,911)
- People (4)
- News (662)
- Research (1,682)
- Events (21)
- Multimedia (30)
- Faculty Publications (973)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,911)
- People (4)
- News (662)
- Research (1,682)
- Events (21)
- Multimedia (30)
- Faculty Publications (973)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS
Chu Chao. The Chaos, émigrés from Taiwan and a remarkable immigrant success story, are the only family ever to have four daughters attend HBS. "Because Ruth devoted her life to promoting excellence in education and enhancing US-China...
View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Cathy Hutchinson
Professional Development office – working with students, alumni and hiring organizations. My team manages our external marketing & communications to recruiters; as well as promotes all of our great resources to alumni. In addition, I...
View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
terms: "Acquisitions are a macho exercise, not an intellectual one. Think World Wrestling Federation, not a chess tournament." Stephen Alexander adds: "Those promoting an acquisition are often dealmakers whose interest in...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social goal,” Koning says. “Americans...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Andrew Boudreau
school was missing out on revenues, and the world was missing out on terrific new innovations.” The business, Hopkins Technology Commercialization Agency, started with five students and quickly found “a lot of demand inside the university and out.” After just one...
View Details
- Profile
Venus Miller
In high school, Venus Miller got the marketing bug in a big way. Recruited into DECA/Delta Epsilon Chi, an international organization that promotes marketing and business education among high school and college students, Venus quickly...
View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
industry while working as director of operations at Beacon Communications Corporation in Acton, Massachusetts. "I studied the factors that made some companies successful," he says, "and discovered that the few companies that stay on the A list often have an...
View Details
Keywords:
Eileen McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
play at home As the sport began to increasingly rely on the kind of data projections that drove his game, the Boston Red Sox brought on Tippett as a consultant in 2003, eventually promoting him to director of baseball information...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
“myth of laissez-faire” that has been promoted by wrong-headed economists (Milton Friedman), opportunistic politicians (including Bill Clinton), and poor readings of history (even antigovernment presidents, including Jefferson, used...
View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
for the real world During the past semester, Bohnet taught a graduate-level course called “Behavioral Economics for Organizations,” jointly listed at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School. Like her book, the course uses social science research and tools, in this case to...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
who were in attendance. "They shared a bit about themselves and we all got to interview and joke with them, and welcome them," says Pérez-Riera. "The HBSLAA wants to promote Latinos, first to go to HBS, and then to get into the C-suite...
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
program at the Nestlé Group in Germany, where he showed a particular talent for marketing and product management. His skills attracted the attention of the management at Pfizer-Germany, who hired him in 1966 as senior brand manager. A View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
pandemic-preparedness plans, consisting of a constellation of public-health measures. Simply having stockpiles of antivirals doesn’t mean that countries will be ready to deal with a pandemic. Also necessary is multisector cooperation for steps such as distributing...
View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is stepping up to address the...
View Details
Keywords:
Agriculture
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
side, telling stories and getting to know each other, any fear and prejudice they may have felt before meeting is gone. This is the sort of scene that Alan B. Slifka (MBA '53) had in mind in 1989 when he cofounded The Abraham Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to...
View Details
- Web
Accessibility | About
and expands coverage to include all digital content, including internal-facing sites. The policy was established to promote equal access to information technology and digital content and to improve the user experience of IT and...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
economic growth, and promote American competitiveness. ÃÂ That means that Johnson, who had previously led several Obama administration regional innovation initiatives, logs a lot of time on the road touting the United States as an...
View Details
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
benefit companies of almost any size, but they're particularly crucial in large corporations where operating units have been granted considerable autonomy. Although giving business units greater freedom generally increases accountability, spurs innovation, and View Details
Keywords:
by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
More fundamentally, though, breaking up these mammoth organizations could reduce their gross inefficiencies and promote greater entrepreneurship. Implicitly or explicitly, then, the Western financial community is encouraging business...
View Details
Keywords:
by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
training in account management, Bines was picked for the vacant position. He lost no time demonstrating his abilities and was soon hired by Mont Blanc as promotions manager. When Mont Blanc's president left to take over the struggling...
View Details
Keywords:
Eileen K. McCluskey