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- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
a replacement for his original HBS diploma, lost during the tumult of the Cultural Revolution. That upheaval saw Mr. Ji, a BOC official in Shanghai, get banished to the provinces for ten years. But those bad days were over, he assured this cub reporter in an interview,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
individualized content that is less permanent. Think TikTok, not Facebook: “Understanding how to talk to them using their technology and their language is really important.” Be intentional about your values. The consumption-to-conviction... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
hopes in the near future to focus full time on the Renaissance empire he has built and is intent on expanding. "I get to apply my business skills to the building of the company, but my passion for it hasn't diminished at all," he says.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
Habit 5, which is "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." Most people listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. Once people think they know and stop listening, they're no longer dealing with reality and so their... View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
In response to the widening coronavirus outbreak in China and globally, HBS alumni are launching efforts intent on supporting the crisis relief efforts to Wuhan and other parts of China. One alumni group, calling itself the Wuhan Task... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human impact on climate change. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
launched two years ago. The original intent of the research project was to begin to collect data that would contribute to a “canon of business leadership” — a compendium of business leaders who have defined the way we live, work, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
months later she left Kraft with the intent of taking a position at another company after a short sabbatical. During that time, she explored numerous countries, including Morocco, Thailand, and Bali, with her husband of thirty years,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
Here’s a great saying that’s been particularly relevant in my life over the past few years: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” To rewind a bit, I was named president of Micron Technology in January 2012. Five days later, my boss, the CEO, died in a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
position to a successor three years ago, but he continues to work 60 hours a week. His intention to slow down, or at least shift focus from RJF to his philanthropic endeavors, has not yet been realized. "There's so much I want to do," he... View Details
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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
ex-wife and I with the model that he and she who much is given much is required. They know that they've always had to give back as well. My life has been very intentional relative to giving back and helping others. I believe that every... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
HBS, where Jones took an entrepreneurship in public education elective with Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who now heads NewSchools Venture Fund. Childress urged her to enter the field, but Jones, intent on paying off her loans, opted for a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
government officials intent on monopoly-busting - also intervene. That's correct. In the late 1950s, just as the Electronic Century was being formed, the U.S. Justice Department settled antitrust suits with IBM and RCA, paving the way for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine The Business of Fashion, understands the pull of Amazon’s wildly popular Prime subscription service and the fact that it’s the go-to site for most products. “If someone has a very high level of View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
well. Terrorism is probably as old as civilization. Is it useful to demystify it? What's useful is to delegitimize it, to say that no matter what the cause is, nothing justifies the intentional killing of innocent civilians as a way to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of capital in short periods. Even a quick... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
many cases drifting from their original intent of making management a profession, with a commitment to using a body of knowledge for the good of society. “The university-based business school of today is a troubled institution, one that... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
seeing companies build more intentional friction back into the buying process. What might that look like in a retail space? JA: It could be on the inventory side or in the way the physical experience is designed: making you wait for a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
art of the deal, replicated the Hazleton model, acquiring twenty companies and amalgamating the industry to create a global capability for the world's pharmaceutical makers. In 1987, with the industry for all intents and purposes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
but I didn’t have an appreciation of all the ethnicities that exist in the world — Italian, Russian, Polish, the differences between various Hispanic cultures. That was fascinating.” Harris says she came to Harvard with the intention of... View Details