Filter Results:
(578)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,948)
- People (5)
- News (578)
- Research (920)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (257)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,948)
- People (5)
- News (578)
- Research (920)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (257)
Sort by
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
entrepreneurship, the first module in April focused on issues such as business structure, taxes, and spreadsheet analysis. For the second module in May, participants brought their own business or investment ideas for discussion. The... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
President & Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Franklin Enterprises Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University, 1962 B.A., Arts and Letters LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "I View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was also a partner. Mendell is a member of the executive committee of the Cancer Research Institute, vice chairman of the New York division of the National Mentoring Partnership, and a trustee of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
environment being among them. The Wyss Foundation, for example, focuses on preserving extraordinary landscapes in the intermountain west and the Colorado Plateau, where Wyss first hiked and climbed as a 23-year-old exchange student.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
of Staples, Inc., will be the first to tell you, thank goodness he got canned. On July 4, 1985, Stemberg - who had been let go by First National Supermarkets earlier that year... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
leading apparel maker Liz Claiborne Inc. (LC) were coming off a sixteen-year high that had begun to wane in 1992. A combination of factors — the national recession, weak spending on women's apparel, increased competition, department... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
that time had to quickly become confident with making life-and-death decisions in the absence of complete information,” she says. Each moment of hesitation or indecision could place Marines’ lives in danger. “The only wrong answer was not to make a decision at all.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
TUMULTY: “Rather than challenge voters, politicians look for the lowest common denominator.” In the following article, the first in a series of occasional opinion pieces by HBS alumni who are professional writers, Time magazine’s View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
competitor Motorola. At the age of forty-three, Andy Grove was running one of the most important companies in the world. His first year as COO was a resounding success. He was pictured in the Annual Report, full-bearded, next to the... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
stay-at-home mom, and was the first person in his family to go to college. He went to Kansas State University on a football scholarship, but was injured during a spring practice in his sophomore year. That led him, in what seems to be his... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
companies touted cleanliness as good for health and success, but also for beauty. Hair washing, long unfashionable, was also a 20th-century phenomenon. This 1905 German advertisement promotes one of the first shampoos. Image Courtesy... View Details
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
In an interview on the nationally syndicated morning news show The Takeaway, Lerner explained. “We all love small business, but if we really want to create new jobs, we’re turning over the wrong rock.” Citing a recent research paper by... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
CEO looks like," noted Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92) , founder and CEO of the Boston-based Center for Women & Enterprise, which coordinated the New England event along with the National Women's Business Council. A study last July by the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy helped boost total... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
system, which they have agreed to do — but the time frame remains unclear. For his part, Jerry Jasinowski (AMP 97, 1985), president and CEO of the National Associ-ation of Manufacturers (NAM), professes an unshaken faith in the ability of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
to Ghana, the Millennium Challenge Corporation has formed partnerships with 38 countries around the globe, from Albania to El Salvador to Zambia. Some of its recent five-year projects, or compacts, include: Honduras, 2005–2010. This $205 million compact, one of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
are absolutely essential, will substantially increase the cost of doing business." Mullin came to Delta in 1997 after a two-year stint as vice chairman of Unicom Corporation and Commonwealth Edison. His rÈsumÈ also includes service at the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
position at First National City Bank to work to put more women in leadership roles and to serve as a spokesperson on women's issues. Even with Nixon's backing, significant pressure against her came from... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)
does color commentary for some forty Bruins games a year. His credentials are impressive: as an 18-year-old, 6' 4", 220-pound defenseman from Saskatchewan, Kluzak was the first player selected overall in the 1982 NHL draft. A recipient of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
convenience and security offered by mobile banking, Kenya’s M-Pesa, for example, grew to serve 15 million customers in its first five years. But for every M-Pesa, there is a company like India’s Eko Financial Services, which has struggled... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson