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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
CLOSING THE GAP: Bill George makes a point about how business leaders often are chosen for the wrong reasons. He’s flanked by moderator Jonathan Kelly (HBS ’08) and HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. From Enron and WorldCom to Hurricane... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
contract with California utilities for $0.14–$0.16 per kWh. As the technology matures and scales, that should fall below $0.10. And these plants can be realized in three to five years, compared with ten or more for nuclear plants. As the rest of the December issue... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
well, checking on classmates' safety, communicating messages of support, and making remarkable personal gestures. In terms of the job market, although our students easily could have become discouraged, they didn't. There was a great sense... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
make decisions in challenging situations. Health care reform was making national headlines—and not in a good way—about the time the conference was held. Did you find that it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
the Bible, and Wheel of Fortune. Here, just two of the artists, philosophers, fictional characters, and others who make cameo appearances in this guide to finance and the good life: (Getty Images/Bettmann) (Getty Images/Bettmann) Wallace... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
service these men and women do for us and our country. It enables me to honor that commitment even though I did not serve,” he says. York was motivated to make this gift because of his experiences interacting with veterans who were his... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
Does a new general manager who delegates decisions run the risk of appearing indecisive? Is an "open-door" policy a good way for a general manager to get information, or a terrible waste of time? What happens when a manager asks employees... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
presentation was that at the bottom of the website it said, ‘A Mark Zuckerberg Production’,” he recalled. “I knew he was passionate about the site and making it a platform beyond college campuses.” “I caved,” he said. “It was five cents a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
timing.” The program is aimed at second-semester college juniors with significant leadership potential who are beginning to explore career opportunities. Applications are due by July 1, with acceptance decisions delivered in September.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
made during those years have sustained to this day, and it's a group I continue to learn from every year. I've never viewed HBS as simply a school or a place. I view it as a living and evolving institution gifted to us by those who came before us. So volunteering was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
“It’s making corporations question the boundaries of who and what they are accountable for in their communities.” Barrett presented guidelines for cross-sector partnerships to fight the epidemic at “HIV/AIDS and Business in Africa and... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
consumers make better purchasing decisions in home durable goods. The long-term vision is to be the go-to destination for any purchasing decision.” What have you enjoyed most about founding and running the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care) by Gordon Moore (AMP 79, 1978), John A. Quelch, and Emily Boudreau Oxford University Press The direct-to-consumer business model has... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
to make what she now regards as one of the most important decisions of her career. "Because of our margin decline in the aftermath of the bubble bursting, we couldn't invest in both the Visor and the Treo.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
reusable, highly safe, and can make many repeated dives to anywhere on the bottom of the ocean,” Vescovo says. “There’s no restriction anymore.” (He won’t discuss the total costs of this expedition, but the announced price tag of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
grounds, so getting people to the park is key.) And for tourists looking to make the trek from Japan to catch a game, cities like New York and LA have the added benefit of offering an attractive destination. "It's obviously a long... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
company: I read a story that early on an engineer wanted to institute happy hour Fridays and a decision was made not to do that for reasons having to do with culture. Can you tell us what happened and the View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
of her two daughters was born. She has never regretted her decision to be a stay-athome mom. "I really liked retailing, but once you decide that your family comes first, it makes all the other choices... View Details