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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
commissioner had several advantages. For one thing, she enjoyed the support of a mayor who believed that cleaning up New York’s streets was essential to its post-pandemic recovery. For another, she came to the job with considerable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
into the game. It meant that money, and lots of it, was everywhere. But as the economy hit the skids in the spring of 2022, that optimism faltered. High inflation, spiking consumer prices, and uncertainty in the stock market caused economic malaise to View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
further investments in the newspaper, television, and radio realms, combining them all under the name Landmark in 1967. In 1982, amid considerable skepticism from industry experts, Batten created The Weather Channel, a 24-hour cable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
the typewriter, keeping thirty short stories at a time out for consideration and ignoring hundreds of rejections. He was the purest sort of entrepreneur, fashioning something out of nothing more substantial than a typewriter, paper, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
wounds in the balance sheet—spurring the call to Kahn—and her ultimate recommendations were a challenge to leadership. But she met considerable resistance from the parent company chiefs, including her father. "Godrej has been one of those... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
VCs who suggested she didn’t have the right skill set to lead a logistics- and operations-heavy business. One advised Emara to switch roles with her male COO cofounder, at least while she was fundraising. “There were a lot of issues on... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
waste.” He’s correct. Now more than ever is the time for innovative managers and entrepreneurs to come up with ideas that lead to opportunities to launch new ventures. There is considerable anecdotal evidence that crises can be catalysts... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
professor of management practice Joe Fuller and in partnership with Accenture, set out to understand why this mismatch occurs and how to solve it. A Harvard Business Review article summarizes their findings, which include focusing on... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
look ridiculously easy, but it's not. It involves hard work that takes a considerable amount of focus and dedication." HENRY McCANCE Yale University, 1964 B.A., Economics "At HBS, I remember the challenge of analyzing difficult problems,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Goals. “I had that rare instance where my skill set as a marketer was being called on to meet a greater social need,” Pitter-Armand says. “I’d always enjoyed my work, but now I was waking up at 3 o’clock in the morning with new ideas.” As... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
information,” notes Roberto. “This wasn’t just people shuffling paper in Houston. They were monitoring astronauts in space, and the foam strike was one small issue in a complex set of events.” “It’s real information and real people in... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
in the Philippines, Jaime “Jim” Ayala (MBA ’88) decided to put his considerable business experience to work improving the lives of some of his native country’s poorest citizens. Explaining his 2009 decision to leave Ayala Land, which had... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
changes in corporate culture needed to embrace innovation, and management of its 100,000-plus workforce, from retraining or relocating workers, to using AI to find candidates for newly created technology jobs. Balanced against these View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
diabetes by creating new beta cells in the pancreas. This is difficult work that is high risk but high reward. You have come to grips with the many ethical considerations in working with stem cells derived from embryos that were created... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
group set its own record of sorts as the first set of MBA matriculants to enter the School in January as part of the new year-round MBA calendar. They were even setting records... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
you for “Show Me the Money” in the June issue, enriched as it was by the considerable input from Raymond Baker (MBA ’60) of Global Financial Integrity. You are right: Everybody is against corruption. But Mr. Baker seems intent on doing... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
refers to as a "network job search" - is just the sort of strategy he's advising current MBA students to use as they confront today's considerably less hospitable market. "In this climate, students will need to work harder," Merrick... View Details