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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Baker asked Christensen, whose courses were perennially oversubscribed and universally praised, to cochair a program that would help other HBS professors improve their case-method teaching capabilities. With roots at Harvard Law School,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless the bar codes on the SmartPak... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
company’s bankrupt in 9 to 12 months. We were full of debt. There was no way we could do it. And we created a program where everybody would do an extraordinary effort in every domain—network, information, technology, provisioning,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
ahead of its time. Ecomagination was an internal program dedicated to sustainability and reducing the company's environmental impact. Now it launched in 2005 and it has been, as you note, one of the most successful commercial efforts in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
analyzing the size of their addressable markets, to figuring out how they will scale their businesses to satisfy demand. And members of all three groups can serve as resources well beyond the program itself, investing in the startups they... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
developments, such as the congressional proposal to augment the Social Security system with a program of private savings, a plan that presumably would include the mutual fund industry. Ultimately, it is the fundamentals upon which the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
meeting—a GPP program that trains students to educate their peers about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. (In 2014, the Georgia Meth Project broadened its focus to become the Georgia Prevention Project.) Some of the students wear... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
should not view it as a substitute for broad public-policy measures that reach all citizens. PEAK PERFORMANCE: HBS professor Warren McFarlan worked tirelessly behind the scenes to plan and organize the summit’s timely and memorable View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
has served as the host of business programs on radio and television. The Players Hendersen Photo courtesy BCG Bruce Henderson When one-time Bible salesman Bruce Henderson died in 1992, the Financial Times declared that “few people have... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Schwarzman is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, and the founder of the Schwarzman Scholars, a graduate fellowship program housed at the new Schwarzman College in Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has just written a new book,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
College is launching Level Up, a program that will partner with Scranton and other local high schools to enable juniors and seniors to work toward an associate’s degree at the cost of $100 per credit. “Despite the uphill battle we still... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Second, there’s a flaw in getting information from management, or maybe management doesn’t understand what’s going on. As a consequence, if management doesn’t understand, the board doesn’t understand. Rakesh Khurana teaches The Board of Directors and Corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
problematic for multinationals. Their concerns have caused Beijing to begin to deal with the problems this system creates. As part of its efforts to build the “rule of law,” the government now supports a number of legal-aid programs for... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
LP: Well, you know, first of all, the fact that her boss said she could go serve on a board was really very forward-looking. I would say that today, actually, it’s starting to be discussed that serving on boards should be part of senior executives’ development View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
investment banking division for Goldman Sachs. And it was kind of an interesting experience I thought I'd share quickly. We started the training program in about September of 1987, then in October of 1987 there was a big stock market... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
conference-goers were able to relax at events that showcased innovation in the arts. At the end of the day's program on March 20, the conference adjourned for an evening at San Francisco's new Museum of Modern Art. A March 21 dinner in... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
deep appreciation for education, one that took Ryan through his studies at Wayne State University and into the PhD program in engineering at Cornell. It was a path that ensured a secure future, but Ryan didn’t love the work. Rather than... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) (Harper) In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers raiding insurgent compounds in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that... View Details