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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
entrepreneurial management and strategy. Anette Mikes came to HBS in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow after earning her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She’s now an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management unit with a focus on View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
full courses Acting in Time: Leadership and Management in the Face of Large-Scale Risks is a leadership capstone course designed for students who, over the course of their careers, will lead an organization that faces large-scale risks.... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
featured Horácio Forjaz, EVP of corporate communication at Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer; Ana Maria Diniz, EVP of operations for Grupo Pão de Açúcar, Brazil's largest food retailer; and María Asunción Aramburuzabala, vice... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be learned.” For example, in her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the willingness of people,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
invoicing of other services. Mallory says the kids would shop at each other’s companies, but only “after the company was operating and employees were paid.” In the weeks prior to JA BizTown, students get instructions on how to start and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
on nonfinancial metrics such as lower fuel consumption in new jet engines, and a reduced carbon footprint and lower water consumption in the firm’s factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes UTC’s... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
operators. Well, you know, elevators used to all have operators. When we automated them we eliminated those elevator operator jobs. Does that mean we shouldn't have put in automated elevators? No. Of course not. But what it does mean is... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
documenting quality grassroots music from all around the world, has greatly enhanced its operational efficiency, a key to its competitive health as a small but highly regarded independent label. Knutson, who still keeps in touch with his... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
someone. On the other hand, a strategy that calls for broad but shallow market penetration is likely to produce an inconsequential valuation. If the intention is to hold the company for a long time, and the tolerance for risk is high,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
attention and resources. Are the potential of the disability market and the proven success in wellness sufficient to enable the company to raise funds and apply separate leadership to the additional market opportunities, to mitigate the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
doubled to approximately $275 billion annually. But the Golden Age of Philanthropy, as some began to call it, risked spending much of that money unproductively. Of the nation’s more than 1.2 million nonprofits, most View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
that's going to require the more mainstream approach to understanding that sabbaticals are good for their employees, that it increases work tenure, happiness, things like that, because if you're operating in an environment with... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
says. “And that was overly optimistic; it worked only when everything clicked.” The subsequent national conversation about minimizing risk through reshoring—that is, bringing American manufacturing facilities back to the United... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
as good as we thought. Hopefully, we'll better understand the conflicts of interest, improve the system, and have more awareness of the risks of investing. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: If a few rotten apples can spoil the barrel, I think we have... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
it’s clear who does what and why. And after that, stay in your lane. Due to COVID-19 lockdowns there were no domestic flights, and you had to have special permits to travel by road. We had to think through the logistics of how to operate... View Details