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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
country had fallen into recession, and the company was saddled with bad debts, slim profits, and a management style that looked inward in the midst of a global economy. His role was to set the organization on a change of course. In Japan,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
anything they can eat or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus — nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy — are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, working on... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
all over the world. By 1970, we had a factory in Holland serving Europe. In 1971, we started assembly plants in Australia and Japan.” He visited more than 50 countries, including many in the Middle East to take advantage of the oil boom.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
boards of several Boston organizations, including The Windsor School, MATCH Education, the Telluride Foundation, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), which she describes as "all incredible, impact-oriented nonprofit organizations... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Senior Lecturer John Macomber, far left, and students in the Africa: Building Cities course toured the Rappie Waste-to-Energy Power Project in Addis Ababa with developer Samuel Alemayehu of Cambridge Group Companies. With a growing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
power. Sandberg looks at what psychologists have to say about how women lose out when it comes to power dynamics, the different rules women follow in negotiations, and the social stigma they encounter for straying too far from the... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
volunteering. My siblings and I started volunteering at a very young age and I've continued to do so my whole life," she says. At All Souls, an Upper East Side feeding program for the neighborhood's neediest families, Garrett has done... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Professor of Management Practice. Another 20 leading investors and entrepreneurs spoke on panels and in private break-out sessions to round out the conference, which was timed in three-hour blocks over the two days to accommodate attendees from coast to coast and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
At that point, Rogers recounts with a smile, the Kraft lawyer “got very reasonable.” On the spot, he offered to let Dreyer’s use its name in thirteen western states, a compromise that Rogers readily accepted. At the time, he had no plans to venture View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Every year, members of HBS student clubs work overtime to organize conferences that address an array of business-related themes and issues. This year’s events, which featured renowned guest speakers and thought-provoking panels, focused... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
actually thinking about user-centered data-driven design that has a lot of the principles that we really take for granted in the for-profit world, just bringing that into government and having government clamoring for that too. Luna: And what are some of these easier... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
perspective - like that of his 5,000 McKinsey colleagues - extends far beyond the immediate horizon. One of the world's premier management consulting firms, McKinsey conducts business from 80 offices in 37 countries, with almost half of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
sink or swim,” Hamermesh says. “If they’re good at what they do, they’re given even more administrative tasks. In the meantime, they continue to see patients. “The good news is that doctors today can reliably diagnose and treat conditions that were View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
a key driver of innovation is necessity—truly the mother of invention. For example, in Brazil, Russia, and China, which have universal coverage, and in India, which does not, demand for health care far outstrips the state's ability to pay... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
major business schools should create a formal and permanent directors’ institute with East and West Coast campuses. Its purpose would be to ensure that directors are intensively trained for initial board service and then remain current on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
Podolny: “As organizations have become flatter, those running them are looking for leaders who can see opportunities and address problems that cut across functional boundaries.” Even managers in large View Details