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- 01 Oct 1998
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Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
any smarter or more gifted than any other HBS class," observed Gregory. "It was simply a matter of good timing. We rode the crest of worldwide postwar prosperity. As general managers, we had the market going for us, we had the capital,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
observes Elberse. "He holds everyone to the same high standards but will tailor his approach to different personalities." But he is also commanding when the situation requires. Says Elberse, "There's a telling quote in the case in that... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
A Focus on Sustainability
improving the sustainability of our planet, Ferenbach believes that the best way to make progress in this arena is to work with—not against—business and government. “The vast majority of the economy is private. It is markets that influence change,” View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
transformational classroom experience," observes Stevens. "I think the time is right to adapt innovative technologies to extend the School's impact and define a new standard for online management education." View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
to take it off their hands. The realization that evening was sobering: Thousands of people around them were in need. “When you live in a country like India, you tend to just normalize what you see around you,” observes Ghose of the more... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Real Talk
their research? “The approaches are largely: cover your rear end,” observes Harmeling. And, say the Equitas partners, other models are largely a few hours’ worth of training made up of PowerPoint presentations, computer quizzes, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Trust your instincts 98 percent, your observations 50 percent, and your conclusions 25 percent.” —Zynga founder & CEO Mark Pincus (MBA 1993), discussing the entrepreneur’s need to balance data analysis and View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
good news, however, one indicator remains stuck: the 500,000 Greeks who packed up their lives and left to find economic opportunity elsewhere. They haven’t come back. For a country of 10 million, the exodus of half a million people amounts to a meaningful percentage of... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
United States,” observes Risher. “Worldreader has created these tools. Now we wanted to see if we could deploy them in the United States.” By the end of 2020, Worldreader had signed up two big partners—World Vision and Raising a Reader—to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
observes Dean Nitin Nohria, who deferred his plans to step down as dean until December in order to lead the School through this crisis “Every day, we must make key decisions amidst significant uncertainty and with incomplete information.... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
diverse and unique ways as an effective strategy for achieving industry dominance. "In the IT industry, we can observe a fundamental change in management principles from constrained innovation to unconstrained innovation," Nolan notes.... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
at 22.8 percent. That figure has consistently fallen since 2013 but, “at the current rate of change, we won’t close the gender pay gap for 25 years,” observes Wooldridge. “We need to speed things up.” Likewise, the proportion of women in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
that new levels of interconnectivity via the Internet could help foster IT entrepreneurship in other regions, Prabhakar also observed that global competition is infusing the "cowboy culture" of Silicon Valley with a greater awareness of... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
Photo via the New York Observer Photo via the New York Observer When Jennifer Fleiss (MBA 2009) started Rent the Runway with HBS classmate Jenn Hyman, the pair were in their 20s—two scrappy entrepreneurs who... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
demeanor might cause the casual observer to mistake the former Dean of Harvard Business School for a “regular guy,” rather than a legendary leader who has spent 60 years shaping HBS, Harvard, Boston, and society at large. McArthur arrived... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
strategically and organizationally." A longtime observer of multinational corporations, Bartlett is the School's Daewoo Professor of Business Administration. In 1998 he and Sumantra Ghoshal published a second edition of Managing Across... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
inspiration typically comes from a very human place. DART Therapeutics CEO Gene Williams (MBA 1987) ("Your Own Medicine"), for instance, told us about a revelation he had during a 2002 trip to Rotterdam to observe clinical trials for the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: Ruling the Waves
explicitly rejected." While acknowledging that the state or various societal groups also clamor for order, Spar declares that, in general, "rules get created because private firms want them." And she observes that what's true for many of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
He recalls when the specter of “Japan, Inc.,” was one of manufacturing’s looming concerns. “We’ve been through a cycle of lost competitiveness followed by renewal,” observes Jasinowski, who once worked on the Studebaker assembly line in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Dance Dance Revelation
the creation, rehearsal, and premiere of a new piece of work with a choreographer—who encourages the executives to observe the process up close, ask questions, and draw parallels to their own professional lives. Designed to help managers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele