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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
Rubin, shared his experiences and lessons learned from his many years of service with Goldman Sachs and in government. He encouraged students "to do your best with the utmost focus but at the same time reach out for opportunities to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
"Strategy counts for only about 10 percent," he said. "We focus on execution." Not surprisingly, therefore, EMC demands topflight performance: some five hundred of its managers are paid according to their... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
general management tour of duty,” says Marcelo, who found enthusiastic mentors at the young company and was soon asked to join the management team. Also during this time, a frightening family incident helped... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
organizations. Their extensive empirical research draws on in-depth case studies of the organization, structures, systems, and management practices in nine large MNCs; a detailed survey of headquarters-subsidiary relations in three of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
strong results." Lafley has been credited with turning P&G around since taking the helm of the consumer-products giant in 2000. In addition to superlative earnings, P&G has seen its stock price double. The ingredients for Lafley's success include a laser-like View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
Program. “It exposed the entire class to the challenge and excitement of being an entrepreneur, creating an idea, and making it a reality. “The focus was on taking action, learning from the response to that action, and making changes to... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
obvious and sometimes more subtle ways, both as a connection and as a connector with people who have graduated before me or after me,” she says. “It’s a great network to have, and it’s great that my management skills were developed at the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
for the first time in nine years, we asked former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors Kirk Sykes (OPM 26, 1998)—current president and managing director of the Urban Strategy America Fund—to field your... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
of companies of all sizes. The time is right, therefore, to reaffirm the importance of entrepreneurship at HBS. To an extent that would probably astonish Dean David, entrepreneurial management has become an important View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
the community -- its outside stakeholders. You can have responsibility at the top of the company, but if it doesn't permeate the entire organization the stakeholders can't count on it. What about bottom-line responsibility to shareholders? Any senior View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
May's Harvard Commencement was a special one for Anand Mahindra (MBA 1981), chairman and managing director of the Indian conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra, as the University used the occasion to recognize him and two others with the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
spend two months in eastern Europe shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and then six months in Argentina. In 1994, Brooks took a break from her graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University for a fellowship with Africare, on the Ivory Coast. There, she helped View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
them really became a full-time career.” This was in the 1990s, when Gould had a management position in marketing and strategy at Reuters and before family-friendly HR policies, such as job-sharing, had caught on with many companies. She... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
industry, most recently as CEO of the Swiss/Chilean company Aport SA. Airlines have since abandoned all aspirations of luxury to focus on reducing operational expenses. It’s the reason we’re seeing a bumper crop of low-cost carriers,... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
to the failing performance and then encouraging everyone to focus on making hard decisions quickly," says Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, whose office shares a small hallway with Hood’s. So what was the plan to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
the venture-capital turnaround that took root in 2004, venture firms returned to the fundamentals of dealmaking, with primary focus on the entrepreneur’s ability to build a good company, says Clint Harris (MBA 1977), a cofounder and View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
productivity concepts—from motivation and goal-setting to focus and decision-making—that explain why some people and companies get so much done. Duhigg explains that the most productive people, companies, and organizations view the world,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management's focus extends beyond strategy, structure, and systems to purpose, processes, and people. All of the restructuring, reengineering, downsizing, and delayering that has occurred during the last decade, Bartlett attests, is the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
practice of management worldwide. The influence of the campaign is already visible throughout HBS, from Spangler Center to Hawes Hall to the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. The campaign has also raised significant unrestricted funds to... View Details