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- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
company’s scientists and management team have shown “extraordinary commitment” to Cytokinetics. “Attrition is a constant challenge in biotech,” he observes. “The bar for continuity in management is pretty... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
understand the executives I talk about in this book very well because I share their predicament,” notes Tom DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of Flying without a Net: Turn Fear of Change... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech startups over the past 20... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
alumni and guests of the HBS Club of India enjoyed Professor Desai’s July 9 book talk in New Delhi, titled “How Finance Works.” His talk “helped de-mystify some of the most complex aspects of finance into more manageable pieces,” says... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
says, will come down to costs—energy and labor, chief among them—and existing local sources. Meaning, on the latter, can they grow anything there outdoors? “So in the Middle East, definitively not, right? You really have to bend the laws... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
company. “They shifted their model in the middle of our contract negotiation and told me, ‘We’re going after the phone companies, are you still in?’ Absolutely. I knew that was an example of an interesting market and technology coming... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
groups such as Boko Haram, which at least promise something to eat. Kola Masha Managing Director, Doreo Partners Masha's Babban Gona system turns subsistence farmers into commercial growers using a franchise model that provides everything... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
skills and strategies required to move from entry-level and middle management roles to the executive ranks. Pierre offers key lessons and short stories containing practical advice designed to help readers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Whitman, and James Wolfensohn to get a sense of their lives away from the corner office. James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) WOLFENSOHN James Wolfensohn’s achievements in business, public policy, philanthropy, and the arts include ten years as president of the World Bank, a key... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
impact in the country dramatically. She was instrumental in the NYSE listing of Wipro; in facilitating nationwide cellular phone service through a deal involving the Tata and Birla families and AT&T; and in a number of privatizations. Last November, she became vice... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
communities." Today, the WWB network provides financial services in more than forty countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. At the same time, this global organization helps microfinance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
mentoring successful cleantech companies. Some highlights: Why there is no such thing as cleantech, there is only money; Avoiding the cleantech fallacy; Pre-marketing your product to avoid problems later; Prioritizing your prospects quantitatively; Finding and View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
with the Wahhabi establishment, and its increasingly dangerous environment populated with a diverse set of enemies, he looks at the prospects for the survival of the monarchy and suggests ideas for reform. Managing in the Gray: Five... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
the December/ January 2008 issue of the Academy of Management Journal in which they question the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that “conventional MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the economy or the taxpayer.” Finding a Middle Path Neither has to happen, says Moss, who ardently believes that his approach finds a middle ground between the harm and moral hazard extremes foreseen by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown River Yangtze, is deep in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
and the Middle East—and we've watched the number of global cases written rise to more than 50 percent in 2012–2013. Beyond that, we have begun offering Executive Education programs in locations beyond Boston, and the FIELD [Field... View Details