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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
You Soar, Adams recounts her humble childhood and the challenges she faced as a young girl, and how she overcame them and went on to live the life of her dreams. After experiencing adversity, poverty, and personal tragedy, Jennifer made a... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
required; to be able to help people prioritize. I’m not an operator; I’m a business person, but [my job is] getting the Navy Seal leadership to decide what’s important—what they can trade off—and identifying risk and helping them manage risk View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
childhood as the grandson of Sicilian immigrants to World War II, when he piloted a B-25 attack bomber, to his time as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, to his 39 years amongst the movers and shakers of Hollywood as leader of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
huge skills battle," he says, adding that the global workforce is steadily gaining ground on the United States. "The war on terrorism is a very... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Innovation, Bolton draws on her 25 years of advising leaders to provide a practical, holistic innovation framework. Her ABCs of Innovation show leaders how to reshape their roles, teams, and organizations to create new value and catalyze... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
many others go on to distinguished careers in financial services. Williams retired in 1986. When the Class of 1939 graduated from HBS, business and employment were still in a slump, salaries were at Depression levels, and View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
trucks and working in a machine shop at a U.S. early-warning ballistic missile detection site. There he discovered that nothing whiled away the cold, dark, and tedium like a good book. By the time he was ready to attend Drexel Institute of Technology, he was hooked... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
expert on commercial banking and a master of case-method teaching, died in November at the age of 94. Williams’s influence on American banking in the post–World War II decades... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
sector, HBS professor Bill George noted that business leaders often are picked by the wrong criteria. “We mistakenly make choices based on charisma, image, and style when we should be choosing based on... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
The experts are finally seeing the light: most now agree we are in a recession. Harvard professor Martin Feldstein (http://www.nber.org/feldstein), former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, says it could be the worst since World View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
home-care medical team would be nearby. On a Monday afternoon draped in mid-October grays, Dr. Komei Umeda and a nurse make the 20-minute drive from the clinic in Tokyo’s western Setagaya ward. They walk up the stone path, under a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
phenomenon in the United States. In the years leading up to the Great Depression and World War II, there was a very high percentage of recent immigrants in the United States, and home ownership was beyond the means of most. Before World... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna (MBA 2002) sits in front of a photo mural on the walls of the Mercy Corps offices in Washington, DC After a full-on morning of Zoom sessions from her home office in Potomac, Maryland, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna (MBA 2002)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Bradley led 1.23 million men as commander of 12 Army Group on the Western Front to bring an end to World War II. Bradley was the youngest and last of nine men to earn five-star rank and the only army officer... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
where some of a rough sense of respect for the other parties that is individually-based and not based on the positions they're taking forward, that becomes key. Because at the end of the day, there is a peace that comes through View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
very difficult to say that this situation would have parallels to the Gulf War or any other war we've experienced. Take oil prices, for example. One might assume that oil... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
shows how a culture that has existed for centuries can be warped and transformed by external forces like war and colonialism, and how members of an ethnic group migrate to survive not only drastic changes but economic realities. Borders... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Profiles from the Class of 2002
sky-high expectations at the turn of the millennium has been replaced by a climate of uncertainty marked by color-coded terrorism alerts, horrific Middle East violence, and the precipitous downfall of a seemingly indomitable corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
In the first days of military action in Iraq, with Americans unsure of what lay ahead, one commanding, symbolic image in this media–intensive war held sway: a U.S. Marine, ripping down a huge poster of... View Details