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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must... View Details
- 28 Jul 2019
- News
6 Vacation Habits That Defend From Future Burnouts
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany a career transition from... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
shore of Roosevelt Island, a narrow strip of land that lies between Manhattan and Queens. Smith’s eyes are fixed on a patch of water demarcated by a series of white and orange Coast Guard buoys. Thirty feet below the surface, a trio of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)
basketball camp for girls, ever, in the Pocono Mountains. They wanted to build the sport by approaching sponsors to support women’s basketball in the few forums it had at the time. I was a big sports fan, but I knew nothing about women... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
"Nothing I taught you about technology in management information systems has any relevance whatsoever to the world we're living in today," stated F. Warren McFarlan, the School's senior associate dean for External Relations, in his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
financed by women, in an industry where women have been largely underrepresented in all of these roles,” says Mandelli, who is managing director of the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. “And the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
adopted community, talking to everyone who came into Caravia Fresh Foods, the specialty grocery and deli owned by Ryan Cognetti—maker of that fateful chicken sandwich—and his family. Having served on multiple political campaigns, she... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leader, know thyself
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Whitman explains Quibi’s great gambit: by doing for short-form mobile media what HBO did for premium television, the company (whose name is shorthand for “quick bites”) will revolutionize the way we watch video on our phones. The idea was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the founder and CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl;... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
the conversation to unfold. He launched the course War & Peace in 2020 with the aim of challenging students’ approach to leadership, negotiation, and strategy by studying conflicts of the past 2,500 years. The syllabus begins with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
defines profits by what he has left in his cigar box every night, and the bank manager has a different way of defining this, adding in rent and salaries, even though they aren’t actually paid. There’s no... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
from managing a corporate enterprise. "Many of my friends in business would feel that universities should be managed more like businesses. That is not possible nor is it desirable," he asserts. "Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne