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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
hours later I was on a plane to Tokyo to advise the US-Japan Task Force. It’s very hard in chaos to make well-informed decisions because all the information is out there in small pockets. My first priority was to contribute all available nuclear plant technical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
abandoned state hospital site in the city's Mattapan neighborhood. I became involved in what were for me new aspects of conservation, education, and state and local politics. Massachusetts is a world away from Central America, but the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
international, to other developing countries and to Europe, where there is a growing housing problem. Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) AbilityTrip — SEF 2010 honoree Founded in 2008 by husband-and-wife team Darren and Faith Brehm, AbilityTrip is a View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
to be more art than science), and the equipment is costly. To overcome those challenges, he centralized the smoking in a single commissary, where the meats are smoked and flash frozen. The third obstacle was more perplexing. “Barbecue is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
see what was behind all the newspaper stories.” Post-HBS, Vitkauskas will work as a vice president in the London office of Summit Partners and focus on the markets of Central and Eastern Europe. “The immersion was an amazing way to get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
I was born into an entrepreneurial family. My parents owned a small business in the day care industry, so I have been working since I was seven years old. But I didn’t start getting paid until I got out of college. Growing up in South View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Mawilmada’s office in Colombo Fort, the city’s central business district. A somewhat hazardous stroll along broken sidewalks, ducking in and out of traffic, took us past the presidential palace, majestic colonial-era buildings, and,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
organization is costly to produce and disseminate throughout the enterprise, they maintain that an organization must decentralize its decision-making capacity. "The issue is not whether to centralize or decentralize, but rather which... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
strategy, we found that there were thirteen markets in America where the majority of fashion goods are sold. In each of those markets, there is a central place where people do their serious shopping. We've designed the stores to be an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
25 "hot spots" where conservation is crucial. These areas account for about 1.2 percent of the land mass on the planet but between 60 and 70 percent of its biodiversity — primarily, the tropical rain forests of Central and South America.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
ago, how central concepts such as interconnectivity and the Internet would be by the time we gathered here in 1996." "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the planning for this conference began years ago, how View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
you’re going to make money,” he says. Zuckerberg’s career combines extensive experience in large-scale New York redevelopment projects and a lifelong respect for the impact of the built environment on the quality of everyday life. After involvement in the high-profile... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
events, and student field studies, and through its ability to convene leading businesspeople, academics, and public policymakers and to connect students to alumni mentors. “The initiative is an attempt to focus on a problem that is View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
Western U.S. 18.1% (Bay Area: 10.4%) Central & Southwest U.S. 12.4% Southeast U.S. 5.1% Europe 8.7% Asia/South Pacific 4.8% Latin America 2.3% Other 3.2% Industry Choices Financial Services 41.6% (Investment Banking/Sales & Trading: 12%)... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
working on crisis management with city officials. “We are working to end intergenerational poverty within a 100-block radius in central Harlem,” says Owusu-Kesse, who joined HCZ in 2008 and became COO in 2014. “Part of our ethos is,... View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
Clubs News Clubs News It’s been a decade since the HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS) launched its signature Mentorship Program, aimed at helping local university and trade school students to prepare for life after graduation, both personally and professionally. The program... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Business with Minimal Risk by Bob Reiss with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (foreword by Howard H. Stevenson) (The Free Press) Entrepreneurs are not risk seekers; they are risk managers, risk sharers, and risk minimizers. This is a central lesson... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
puzzled through the fragments of his history, my mom and I did our best to fill in the gaps. Clinical decisions are only as good as the information you have to make them. As competent and well-meaning as my dad’s doctors were, they lacked the best possible information.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
deputy minister and as the country’s chief World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiator. After three decades of communist central planning, “China’s economy was on the brink of bankruptcy,” he told a first-day plenary session. Hardship and... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
president responsible for bringing innovative consumer products to market, and then moved to Nightingale Informatix in the EMR sector; but he found frustration in these firms’ centralized approach to product management. “History has... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken