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- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
did. While in college, Eaton studied electrical engineering, and a tuition reimbursement program from United Technologies Corporation enabled her to get dual master's degrees in operations management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George Myers, and Tom Champoux... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit transportation company, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
“Each corporate partner donates a certain number of pro bono hours to Endeavor a year, and our offices allocate them to the entrepreneurs,” says Ko, who worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before heading to HBS in 2003. “It’s a win-win... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
violations. “Are we better off having China be part of the world or isolating them?” Immelt responded. “In order to drive change, you have to be inside, not outside, the house. You have to become part of the culture and demonstrate through View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
women) isn’t just a social good but improves performance within organizations and in wider economies. A London resident of two decades, Hunt serves on numerous UK boards, including the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, the Tate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Of Value and Values
economic development, and corporate governance in a rigorous, bottom-up approach employing analysts who integrate sustainability research into fundamental equity analysis. But what happens when an appealing investment opportunity also... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
for research. Businesses and governments are reassessing Asia-Pacific policies and strategies. People are searching for new intellectual frameworks and ideas. At the same time, in sectors where growth and performance are highly uncertain... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
to the failing performance and then encouraging everyone to focus on making hard decisions quickly," says Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, whose office shares a small hallway with Hood’s. So what was the plan to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
last five years has been nearly $1 trillion in underperforming investment in the United States alone. Although its central message is that managers need to think more coherently about their project portfolios in order to align them with View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Feb 2002
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Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
high-spirited address at the conference's conclusion. An entrepreneur responsible for starting fifty companies in ten countries, Twaalfhoven passed along his perspective on a number of topics, including the economic performance of Central... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
ever seen. By offering 10 years of policy certainty, the IRA encourages technology innovators to form companies and it reassures larger corporates to be their buyers. So as early-stage investors in clean energy, electrified... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, leverages years of research to help companies, and their leaders, address the challenges of virtual work. With well over half of Americans indicating a preference for continued remote work post-pandemic,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that transcended the idea of a mere “exhibition,” this book explores in detail the shows and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
study fit into your broader interest in workplace gender issues? Our research speaks to the question of how men construct identities in the workplace, and the role organizations can play in shaping this process. In other research, we have seen that conventional... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
mastered English and advanced to the top of his class. His outstanding academic performance earned him a scholarship to Oxford University, where he became president of the Oxford Union, the world’s most famous debating society. Upon... View Details