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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
global management from the general manager's perspective. Hightower credits his career in the Army, where he attained the rank of major at age 27, with teaching him the nuances of leadership. "As MBAs, we tend to become quite enamored... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
ranked 23rd in the world in 2014, besting the likes of Israel and Austria, according to the consulting group Hamilton Place Strategies. It’s not just independent hackers. It’s state-sponsored hackers who put on military uniforms and head... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
from outside the United States last year, proving the company’s standing as a truly global entity. And Immelt has made it a priority to ensure that the ranks of upper management reflect this new reality. “The way we train our people is... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
and scholar, Shakib Arsalan. In his letter, Basyuni Imran requested that Arsalan explain the reasons for the backwardness of Muslims of the time, compared to other nations. Furthermore, Basyuni asked Arsalan to suggest what they needed to do in order to join the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
powerful in the world's great capitals, Wolfensohn might nonetheless rank his interactions with village chiefs and local leaders as among the most rewarding of his career. For even as he enjoyed a remarkable career in the private sector,... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
says. “It was a fun, dynamic way to help evolve Utah, which Forbes Magazine has ranked first on their Best State for Business list six times in the last seven years.” Frey left the government role to be an angel investor, allowing him... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Francisco Opera, helping it through a difficult era—flying, teaching entrepreneurship, track and field, and fishing. Johnson, a nationally ranked runner in college, regularly attends the Olympic Games. From his father, a track coach, he... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
ALS, but for many other diseases that suffer from a lack of funding and attention. “One of the top ALS researchers recently told me he thought it was ‘fair to say that if there was a measure of impact per dollar on furthering the ALS drug development, Prize4Life would... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Internet, rank novices can disable an organization’s Web site, hurting business while giving the firm an embarrassingly public black eye. More serious are the sometimes devastating and often indiscriminate internal intrusions perpetrated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
create at least one venture within 10 to 20 years of graduating 1,300+ cases on entrepreneurship 150 first-year students participate in Startup Bootcamp #1 PitchBook Rankings (2021) + Female founders + Founder count + Company count +... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
line and on improving the quality of patient care. In 2005, Porter developed a multiyear learning partnership with MD Anderson, regularly ranked as the top cancer treatment center in the United States. The organization radically... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
country. “On a scale of 1 to 10, only about 30 percent of US respondents born since 1980 ranked it at 10,” he shares. “That concerns me. “Ours isn’t the first contentious chapter in US history,” Moss elaborates. “But when we’ve put the... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
array of challenges: HBS courses were taught in classrooms scattered across Harvard Yard; faculty and student ranks had been severely depleted by the Great War; finances were precarious; and the curriculum—focused on industry-specific... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
made their mark in the media and entertainment realm — be it publications, television, movies, theater, or the arts. At graduation, investment banking and consulting ranked as top career choices. But over the years, she’s seen her fellow... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Unsurprisingly, then, Jakarta underwhelms in comparison to other world centers. Last year, in its annual liveability index, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Jakarta 116—below Almaty, Kazakhstan, and New Delhi—out of 140 cities.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
classes, and rank among the best-selling cases of all time. To try to understand why these cases are so successful, we spoke with the professors who originally wrote them (including James Heskett, at left), and with those who still teach... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Mahindra in 1991. Anand Mahindra has been leading M&M’s charge into the ranks of the world’s global corporations ever since. Established in 1945, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), named after one of India’s best-known business families, got... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
alumni and guests gathered at the HYP Club. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) was founded in 1883 and is now the world’s largest manufacturer of paints, coatings and specialty materials, with $15 billion in sales. McGarry, a mechanical engineer... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
all about making decisions, and you don't make decisions without making mistakes. Don't make that mistake again, but please be sure you make others.'" As Burke moved up the ranks of the company, focusing initially on advertising and... View Details