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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
years later, looking for a new challenge, she came across salauno. Captivated by the organization’s mission and work, she negotiated a month-long project to show the directors how she could make their operation more efficient. “I diagnosed the sales and View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6156.html. The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation The notion of levying higher taxes on tall people — an idea offered largely tongue in cheek — presents an ideal way to highlight the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
all the hurdles other female founders may face in their own journey to the top. It’s about dealing with the way things are, even when you don’t like it, and being yourself, even when it seems like a drawback. Digital Goddess is a story... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
Stirring up nutritious meals: On one of his frequent trips to Rwanda, Bill Wyman participates in a class that teaches mothers how to prepare healthy meals for their children. Photo courtesy Bill and Ro Wyman Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
vanishingly small. “If the people writing the checks are more reflective of the population, the people receiving the checks will become more representative of the population.” —Hayley Barna (MBA 2010), general partner, First Round Capital Today Barna sits on the View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
HENDERSON: After two decades at MIT, she brings her interest in “green business” to HBS. Major technological shifts always pose a challenge to organizations, and Rebecca Henderson (MBA ’85, PhDBE ’88) has spent the last two decades exploring why some firms barely... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
October issue that looks at some of today's most pressing management issues. A special six-foot pullout also highlights some of the seminal ideas first espoused by academics from HBS, scholars from other institutions, and business... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni volunteers through the club system. Perry Driggs (MBA '61) skillfully led the Lifelong Learning Committee in discussions on how alumni perceive lifelong learning, what role HBS might play in that arena, and how best to market the programs offered to alumni. It... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
inefficiencies, as units within them typically performed below stand-alone peers. Divesting assets to focus on core competencies became the accepted wisdom. Applying this logic, multi-industry conglomerates in other nations, such as the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
than how they actually behave, fails to take this into account. In How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market, Zaltman pulls together elements of neurology, sociology, biology, and other sciences — along with his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
a Work Lyft with 5G wireless connectivity and swivel desks, allowing you to do conference calls. Others might be optimized for entertainment or even meditation. Recently my home state revoked my privilege to drive because of a disability.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
hundred U.S. automakers, and look at how few there are now. Innovation and Darwinism have always gone hand in hand. But the information-driven economy is here to stay. Every organization is focused on how it can deliver services... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
As the global economy grows ever more competitive, American manufacturing is at a critical juncture. The country has been surrendering jobs, production capacity, and know-how to other countries at an alarming rate. The answers to this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
professor Quinn Mills dissects the other half of the artificially supported 1990s bull market in Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms. This time around, he focuses on large corporations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
students' learning experience. So in August, she, along with nearly seventy other professors and deans from business schools in Latin America, China, Africa, and Central and Eastern Europe, arrived at HBS for the third annual Colloquium... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
KRAUSS It's the lessons she's learned from life, not just as a businesswoman and a physician, that have allowed Dr. Marlene Krauss to see opportunities other venture investors missed. HBS taught Krauss (MBA 1967) how to lead and how to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
The demand for babies by infertile couples and other would-be parents is huge — and little discussed. HBS professor Debora L. Spar addressed the market realities of adoption and scientific conception at the 2003 Alumni Health-Care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
How Green Was My (Silicon) Valley
of the corporate leaders President Obama says he most admires, has become an influential policy and economic adviser to the Obama administration. He has contributed to the campaigns of Obama and other politicians, and some observers have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Relationships as Valuable Assets, by Robert C. Blattberg, Gary Getz, and Jacquelyn S. Thomas, is the first book to provide a unifying framework and practical tools for measuring customer value — the potential profitability of each customer to a company — as a View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
working with the financial community. We make a pretty good team.” Mutual respect for one another’s abilities is the critical ingredient for husbands and wives who work together, says Debby Stein-Sharpe (MBA 1981), who works alongside Jim... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing