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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
is needed. So how did Houghton, who would become renowned for his inclusive, team-oriented, nice-guy leadership, get everybody’s attention? “I hit them over the head with a two-by-four and said, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do,’” Houghton recalls with a smile. That... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
eat some grasshoppers, ensuring (according to local lore) that they’ll return to Oaxaca one day. Day 3: Oaxaca Site Visits MI CASA ES SU CASA: On site visits, student groups focus on different tracks (housing, water, retail), gathering View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
financial globalization; and the challenges and policies of large economies. The cases, set in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, approach these themes by exploring institutional detail in deep local context,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
call centers, with their attendant voice response units, need not be frustrating. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology, and internal processes, both the customer and... View Details
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
deconstructs the traditional software value chain at big tech employers like Oracle and IBM. “What are the boundaries of an organization going forward in a world where information and content are open or can be made open? View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
over the world.” Lessons gained from the case study method, in particular, have stayed with her. “It’s a discipline that encourages you to step back and learn from many perspectives,” Thoman says, adding that her HBS experience has View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Giving Tree
Managing Director, GTCR Chicago “My father was a fireman and came from a large family; I was a financial aid kid in college. There is a sense of gratitude and obligation when you’ve benefited from an institution like HBS. I’m very focused... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Nov 2014
- News
New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
future—and to give our institution the resources it will require to meet the challenges this future will bring,” said Dean Nohria. “As we do so, we need to think not only of the challenges and opportunities facing Harvard Business School,... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
2006 Named Chair, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada 2013 Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada 2016 Receives Harvard Medal Dean Emeritus, Harvard Business School John McArthur’s informal manner charms, disarms, and deflects—and very... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
narrowed. "Much of what we teach in management theory is that there is one best way to do things," West observes. To explain the existence of two "best ways," he cites differences in the institutional contexts in which U.S. and Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
associated institutions in particular fields that compete but also cooperate." In a recent interview in Working Knowledge, a quarterly report on research at HBS, Porter was asked whether clusters and other local economic circumstances... View Details
- 15 Jan 2015
- News
Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
significantly increase engagement with and among alumni well in to the future. The HBS goal is part of Harvard University’s $6.5 billion campaign announced last September. “This Campaign is largely about tapping into our collective imagination to try to envision the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
When you became Dean, were there surprises for you nonetheless? It wasn’t a complete surprise, but one of the interesting things was to see how information dries up when you become the head of an organization. For years I had been a close... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in the face of complex challenges
ultimately an investment in a better world,” says Hess, “one led by alumni who build more effective, sustainable institutions and organizations and inspire hope and opportunity in communities around the world.” Hess understands the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating reality. It was a great way to give... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Managing Change
from HBP and now HBX as well—Das has shepherded a process through which Executive Education has enhanced its reputation as a premier provider of executive development to leading firms and institutions around the world, while engaging more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
chasing the American dream. I never thought I would be Dean of Harvard Business School.” When Harvard President Drew Faust called on May 4 to inform him that he was her choice, Nohria, drawing on his years of work in leadership, told... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Professors Leonard and Rangan One of the benefits of starting a new initiative within an academic institution is the chance to set transformational ideas into motion. In 1993, when then-Dean John McArthur and John Whitehead (MBA 1947)... View Details
Keywords: SEI