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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
explained to an audience of returning MBA alumni during a reunion presentation last fall, “In approaching some one hundred companies, ranging from manufacturing to service businesses, we were attempting to discover the operating... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
advantage? That's what drives profitability and, frankly, what makes it fun. Advice for current MBAs Choose your first job carefully. Pick a place that will maximize your learning. Find an organization that is so good at what it does that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
leaders of organizations that worked with Enron acted with a different set of values and purpose.” Encouraged by the afternoon, Clark announced plans for an Enron session for MBA students later in the spring and said he would create... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the December articles very interesting. Either I have been missing out, or the content has been vastly improved. Stan Humphries (PMD 17, 1969) St. Simons Island, GA Build a Cost-Effective MBA The September article “Building a Better MBA”... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based in France and committed to green transportation, Herlaut... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
was at Lehman Brothers, we typically were doing some of the largest deals in the world. And the fact that we’re doing that now at Blackstone is not surprising. It’s consistent with my training as a younger person. What’s your advice to new View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
intense classroom discussion and caused students to think differently about the ways traditional business models can be upended not only to boost profits, but also to be more environmentally responsible. The discussion in Serafeim’s MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was named one of "Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years" by PBS. Mr. George received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Stanford University in 1959. Beverly Hawes, a Boise native, earned her degree at Whitman College in Washington. The Haweses came to HBS with four young children (two more followed in 1973 and 1976), and Rod Hawes earned his MBA as a Baker... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Actually, we like to see them fail as often and as early as possible," Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke said with a wink as he watched students in his elective MBA course Managing Product Development (MPD) set up their display booths... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
incorporated into the MBA curriculum. The School’s most complex simulation to date, “Strategic Brew” focuses on maximizing the profitability of a beer company. Students are assigned to four-member brewery teams, and four of these teams... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
financial resources. In its early days, the Fundación funded mainly MBA students, and over its 25-year history, under the stewardship of its three chairmen—Antonio Madero (MBA 1961), Alfredo Elias (MBA 1975), and Enrique Tellez (MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
in the San Francisco area. He is president of The BASIC Fund, which provides scholarships to Bay Area inner–city children to attend private schools. The proceeds from the Rock gift to HBS will be used to support a wide range of faculty projects in entrepreneurship,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
how to move a case discussion from one point to the next — are remembered often by the legions of MBA students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members Christensen taught during an HBS career that spanned half a century, from the 1940s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Bhartia and Raamin Mostaghimi (both MBA 2014). The book gives early readers insight into how to add value and avoid checked luggage, plus lessons on the language they’ll need to manage up: When a partner asks for 15 hours of work in the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
in Tunisia and Côte d’Ivoire while working for the African Development Bank.” Of note: Oteh has been awarded the Officer of the Order of the Niger as well as two Chieftancy titles: Ada eji ejem mba (in Igbo, “a worthy ambassador of her... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
think back to when I was as an MBA 20 years ago, that's something that has distinctly changed. There are more people who link social causes with their businesses now." Wilcox gets to see those young, socially conscious entrepreneurs on a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
intention of getting divorced or having an unhappy family life. But because MBAs so often focus too narrowly on professional achievement, he admonished us to include success in family and community endeavors in our definition of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
climate and energy that are highly relevant to the current public debate.” The Brand IDEA: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity by Nathalie Laidler-Kylander and Julia Shepard Stenzel (both MBA 1992)... View Details