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- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
Laurie Leonard (MBA 1977) is executive director of End of Life Choices New York, a nonprofit advocacy, counseling, and educational organization. In the following interview, she discusses the group’s mission and her reasons for serving.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
Leader executive program. William E. Pike (MBA 1960) took in the fabulous fall weather. In a Saturday session, members of the Class of 1955 enjoyed sharing stories about what they have done since retirement. HBS associate professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
Japan, Yoffie and Kwak interviewed more than fifty executives at a broad range of firms, including eBay, Frontier Airlines, Charles Schwab, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, and Intel. Finding that many companies, both large and small, have... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Expands Global Presence
Following the successful launch of research centers in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, and Buenos Aires, HBS has opened the European Research Center (ERC) in Paris. With Vincent Dessain (MBA '87) serving as executive director, the ERC will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
authenticity in a culture that too often minimizes their value. —Sarah Riggs Amico (MBA 2003) is executive chairperson of Jack Cooper Investments and a founder of Rediscovering Our American Dream (ROAD), a mission-driven media company.... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
keep the working, moving forward. All the other board members are senior executives from other companies and they run the committees. Obviously, the chairman of the board has to have oversight, but it has to be, in my view, a completely... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
answering President Kennedy’s call to give back. He then transitioned to the private sector. “I’ve always been interested in how leadership leads to service,” says George, who served in senior executive positions at Honeywell and Litton... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
prices and market capitalizations, loss of market share, failure to innovate, and reactionary cost-cutting). Organized in three parts, Dot Vertigo addresses the issue of business disorientation; the execution of the I-Net infrastructure... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
hydrocarbons, which can be wrung out of the material in a centrifuge or wringer system and safely discarded. (To see Opflex in action, please go to http://www.youtube.com/cellecttech.) A hands-on executive and sole owner/inventor who... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
rescue a leading energy corporation from ever-increasing debt and a lack of executive accountability, he faced an uphill battle. Not only had he never before stepped into the role of CEO, he also had no experience in the rapidly evolving... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
an additional $100,000 donation to the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professorship, a capstone contribution for the three-year, $5 million fundraising effort that included earlier gifts from PepsiCo, alumni, and corporate donors. "H. Naylor Fitzhugh left a legacy of achievement... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
infrastructure.” FIELD 3, the integration module, provides students an opportunity to combine the knowledge, skills, and tools they have learned from all their coursework to develop and bring to market a microbusiness. “Students must View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
at MCI, and circled the globe as a senior executive for IBM before launching a tech start-up, sold in October 2007. Along the way, he discovered a love for horses and foxhunting, although he didn't love how horses beat up the grass and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
LI AND BERNOFF: Executives can’t afford to turn their backs on social networking. Nothing gives CEOs and marketers instant heartburn more than seeing their hard-won brand equity hijacked by forces beyond their control — too often by... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
At an executive retreat in 2015, Hood lectured senior leaders on the need for more internal and external metrics to keep employees on a measurable path and communicate better to investors. Nadella and Hood hatched a plan to refocus... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
and machine learning (Dougal Maclaurin), and Jong Lee (MBA 1999), a former consultant and startup executive with extensive experience in the medical technology space. “There is a huge unmet clinical need for what we are doing,” says Lee,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
United States in 2021. The Juneteenth Story provides an accessible introduction for kids to learn about this important American holiday. The Changing C-Suite: Executive Power in Transformation By José Luis Alvarez (PhD OB 1991) and... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
buy, and both have merits that we’ll dive into again and again in future podcasts in the series. One is what’s called a funded search. There’s a population of investors who are eager to invest in searchers, and they do this again and again. And in a funded search, a... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
brought in a new chief executive that increased operating profits by 80%, but it didn't matter because the interest was so big that it a bottom-line level, no matter what he did, it was never enough. By the time we got to late 1990... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
War II plane crash sites, were searching for remnants of a transport plane in Zavattarello, Italy. The team, Gruppo Ricercatori Aerei Caduti or GRAC, was set up several years ago to help collect these sorts of relics. Piero Ricci (GMP 14), a Milan-based View Details