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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
her. In one instance, Carson suspected the woman in charge of payroll might turn out to be a separate problem from the case she’d been hired to investigate. “I watched her,” Carson says. “She never did any work.” And voila: The do-nothing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
is that their employees have a sense of emotional safety and can bring their best selves to work. The same is true in sports, especially when you have younger athletes performing under immense pressure.” Decision point: “I was cold called on a View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
being the case with the craft beer revolution? —Roger Ellis (MBA 1967) BUECHLER: The next 10 years are going to be interesting. In the short term, expect both the production side and the support side to continue to do well. Tank... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
instead of getting spread too thin and possibly losing quality control,” he says. “Similar to the HBS case study method, in life it’s hard to achieve a goal that’s so big, by yourself. Consequently, by bringing people together with... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
first entered the Olympics competition in 1996. A frequent speaker on finance, investment, and General Patton, Stillman is president of R.J. Stillman Company, his writing and publishing operation. HBS was a memorable experience for me, in particular because of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
administrative challenge. The railroad at the heart of the legal proceedings had been pieced together through more than 7,000 separate acquisitions. The bankruptcy judge told McArthur that the average railroad reorganization up to that point had taken 23 years, that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
outcome. But it’s not going to happen in this one.” Two cases authored by HBS professor David Yoffie and taught in the elective course Strategy and Technology track E Ink’s evolution and highlight some of the challenges it has faced over... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and exploring the Asian management... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
from his study group and from Recordings for the Blind, which made audiotapes of all his cases and other required texts. He became the first blind person to graduate from HBS. “The Business School was awesome, from the Dean down to my... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
minority college juniors and seniors to general management issues through the case method and encourages them to consider careers in business. A Saturday morning packed with sessions covered topics ranging from consolidation in the media... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Co-lead Carol Barnett (MBA 1990), Founder of the Creek School, LLC and director of operations for Medline Industries, LP, says the program signed its first client—a hybrid tech incubator and downtown revitalization real estate developer in Jackson, Mississippi—in July.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
to the case method of separating the wheat from the chaff.) Nixon led McGovern in our Presidential class poll, the reverse of '73's, probably because fully 38 percent of our class were veterans. Thanks to Professor John Kotter, there's no... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
field method—a powerful complement to the case method—to give students opportunities to develop the "doing" and "being" dimensions of leadership. Just as the yearlong required FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development)... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
perhaps the most prestigious bad job in journalism." At HBS, Tumulty discovered that "the case method is the best kind of training in the mental discipline that a journalist needs, especially for covering politics, which is really all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
includes real-life case examples, Connecting the Dots gives managers the tools to make the most of their technology- and projectrelated investments as they optimize expenditures on the new business frontier. — Deborah Blagg Selling China... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
"This is certainly the case in China, where I'm working with a number of Chinese and American universities, including Harvard, at the forefront of this effort." Esquel's impressive growth notwithstanding, Yang doesn't see her job as... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Capital Tech Opportunities who invests in B2B software companies in the late-stage growth phase. Hopkins cites an example that was brought to life in a case discussion attended by the protagonist, a founder of a company who had placed his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
participate in the HBS curriculum. As members of a mock board of directors, alumni volunteers work with small teams of students who act as case protagonists and propose solutions to issues facing their company. MBA students and alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
that. They were an extremely sophisticated group who knew about the world, and they really motivated me.” One of only a few African Americans in his class, O’Neal says simply: “Not a lot of people looked like me.” That was also the case... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
discrimination and product bundling. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at the School from 1991 to 1993, writing more than a dozen cases on finance, business ethics, and... View Details