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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
man! — Rindge Leaphart (MBA 1997) I am a partner at a small but rapidly growing executive search firm. Back in the spring of 2010 we conducted a client survey that clearly pointed out a strategic imperative (and opportunity) for us to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
high impact." After a series of promotions, she became a member of the founding executive team of Apple software spin-off Claris, where, as VP international, she grew international revenue to 50 percent of the business. In 1992 she met... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
switch. So I applied to business school.” At HBS, Williams pursued marketing while channeling his restless energy into election as HBS Student Association copresident and regular workouts at Shad Hall. It was during a campus presentation by Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
observes Steve Nelson (MBA ’88), executive director of the MBA Program. “In that time, Spangler has become so much a part of the fabric of the HBS community. We had 32 buildings spread across a 40-acre campus, but no central space for... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
head of story. He was our editor. He did a lot of different jobs on The Lego Movie. We promoted him on Lego Batman to become the director of the movie. And now he's going to be a producer with me on Lego Ninjago and executive producer on... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
aid only in the crowdsourcing of designs, Rogers balked. “We need a microfactory,” he said. Unless GE bought into the whole model, Local Motors wasn’t interested. Immelt agreed, and Comstock suggested the oil and gas division as a potential partnership. But Rogers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
went along, and sometimes we didn’t. For example, we decided not to hire certain executives with industry experience when we should have.” “We didn’t invest in the very best people until fairly recently,” Coup adds. “We’ve been too cheap... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
accomplished over the School’s first century.” Given that challenging context, how will you set your agenda for the School? I have been a student of leadership and organizational change, and in many ways I’m trying to follow what I have advised other people to do. No... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
cofounded InMobi, a mobile-first advertising platform that achieved unicorn status in 2011—the first consumer technology company fully conceived and executed in India to do so. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Julia Hanna... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award on behalf of their companies'... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
deep personal experience of rootlessness—experience with the Atlantic world and the Caribbean, experience with the national and international mobility of money. It was this kind of background, together with their own brilliance, that enabled them to envision and then... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
reading a case between serving cocktails, an Executive Education participant who was a CEO in retail gave Jackson a tip that would change her future. "He told me that anyone who worked as hard as I did was made for retail," she recalls.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
People should think, "What are the to-dos, and who's going to do them?" Senior executives tend to think that they can accomplish this by just telling people what to do. But there's a big difference between assigning a task to be completed... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company would wait for the test results. “We’ve always followed a ‘Do what’s right and take your lumps’ approach to business. We had to execute the recall.” READY TO GO: A stringent quality-process at the company’s packaging Plymouth,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
arrive by motorcycle, a popular form of transportation. Inside, an iTrust relationship manager coaches a new financial adviser. While having a plan is essential, execution is the truly hard part. “India has certain quirks,” Varma... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Perspectives in Nonprofit Management executive program that focused on the MFA's partnership with Fleet in sponsoring the "Monet in the 20th Century" exhibition. Greyser attributes the success of this 1998 blockbuster — which was that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
can take you a long way.” The following year, at the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (AG Bell) in Washington, D.C., after illness and death struck top executives there, Sommer managed key tasks and projects so well that she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
students began to attack these cases by working together. The goal was threefold, says Dr. James Young, executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: Watson was to help doctors get better at diagnosing illnesses and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors demonstrate how applying... View Details