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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
Robert S. ("Bob") Gardella cheerfully admits that he found his position as assistant director of Alumni Career Services (ACS) in the most unlikely way: through an ad in the newspaper. Now his job is to help give HBS alumni the skills and View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
players, for whom an average career, their union asserts, lasts less than four years (the league disputes that). The players claimed the league deceived them about its knowledge of the severity and scope of football-induced concussions... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun. Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
be the ones left standing once the dust clears. Charan traces the causes of this crisis, identifies the essential priorities managers need to focus on now, and offers clear guidelines for top executives and managers. Create Marketplace... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
at a time. JB: I cannot agree more. I think it’s critical for us to think beyond the boundaries of Harvard. The question for us, for our students, for everyone who has the privilege of being here is how can we use our access to knowledge... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
number of fairly foreign situations related to these roles. Luckily, I managed to navigate them well, and with relative comfort and competence, thanks to my HBS experience.” What was your first cold call like? “Totally nailed it—when I... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Work, by Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak, is the first book to examine and explain the role that social capital — the value inherent in human connections, including trust, personal networks, and a sense of community — plays in the successful running of organizations.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
weight is assigned to the various answers. “I think people would be surprised just how different the methodologies are,” says Brian Kenny, chief marketing and communications officer at HBS whose office manages the data requests that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Strategic Networking
career information by other HBS graduates. So what’s the best way to leverage the power of those connections? The answer really depends on your objectives, says Christine Sullivan, senior program manager of Alumni Career Services. In any... View Details
Keywords: Networking
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
temporarily took the lead over Watson in the game’s closing rounds. Visiting HBS at the invitation of Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih, who has written and teaches a case on Watson, the IBM team, prior to the Jeopardy!... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
master’s in management through a dual-degree program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute before applying to HBS’s 2+2 Program, which admits college students to the MBA Program on a deferred basis, giving them time to gain professional... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
development of a course that could enhance decision making by providing participants with the knowledge and skills to better manage, fund, and commercialize scientific discoveries that could potentially cure illnesses ranging from... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
Khare. Indeed, he came to business only after he added to his undergraduate engineering major at the University of Pennsylvania by enrolling in the Wharton School's five-year, dual-degree program in management and technology. "I saw... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
with HBS professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih, Pisano says, “One of our key messages is to get students to appreciate that manufacturing involves a lot of knowledge work. There has been almost a whole generation of MBA students and View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
export-driven economy to one centered around knowledge industries and services and a growing consumer class. “It took a week or so to recover afterward, but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way,” HBS associate professor Suraj... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
managers in any industry, as the Pulitzer Prize - winning historian revealed in a recent conversation with the Bulletin. How did you approach this enormous project? For Inventing the Electronic Century, my basic purpose was to bring the... View Details