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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a junior View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
having a networking strategy is the game-changer that can allow you to advance more effectively? Smart networking is about building relationships. Networking is more about coffee and less about cocktails. It’s more about being involved in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
business strategy takes care of itself.” It’s a philosophy that has taken him from the research firm he founded at 26 to the chairmanship of Atlantic Media. When I grow up: “When I was 13 years old, I read Advise and Consent about the US... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Illustration by Richard Downs, Theispot.com When I was in sixth grade, I used to spend recess hiding under a truck in a garage at school. One of the few Caucasian students enrolled in what was my "neighborhood" school—on a Native American reservation in northern... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
with the ungainly conglomerates assembled in the 1960s and 1970s that provided a variety of seemingly mismatched products and services. And while many consultants and investors are seeking to extend this focused model into emerging... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Jay Lorsch and the Boston Consulting Group’s Colin Carter (MBA ’71) argue that corporate boards have made progress in the last decade, but are being pressed to perform unrealistic duties, given their structure, processes, and membership.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
Yoffie, noting that the case is used as part of the MBA required curriculum in the Strategy course and in numerous Executive Education programs. It can also be taught with a video presentation by John Sculley, Apple’s CEO from 1985 to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few projects in development in the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
education.” —HBS professor emeritus Howard Stevenson, author of Getting to Giving, on the importance of sales strategy in entrepreneurial ventures. (Bloomberg Businessweek online, December 2, 2011) “These are old friends.” —Lawrence... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
the owners. And they just out of the clear blue made an offer to me to be a consultant, to leave the partnership, become a consultant for them in international marketing. They never had a marketing department to basically license their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
Professor Myra Hart focuses her research on high-potential ventures, but the career challenges and opportunities of HBS women have also captured her attention. In 2001, she launched Charting Your Course, a career strategy program for HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
essential relationship, including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expectations, and tactics for negotiating priorities. The Adventures of an IT... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
pianist. Meeting with colleagues at Baupost. Enjoying a Red Sox game with his wife, Beth. For 30 years, Seth Klarman has exercised an investment strategy of evaluating businesses based on their worth and of seeking out bargains. “It’s... View Details
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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
Consulting Group. “We are also providing support to people transitioning to the continent by introducing them to others who made the move and by sharing information on what to expect.” YAM has also proven to be an asset for companies that... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Pitch for Change
The “Pitch for Change” wasn’t a case of saving the best for last, because all that came before was so good. But the elevator-pitch, business-plan showdown did close February’s 11th annual Social Enterprise Conference on a high note: Competing against contenders from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
partner of Moreton & Moreton Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1987 to 1989 and a management consultant at Edgar, Dunn & Conover in San Francisco from 1983 to 1987. Moreton earned his Ph.D. in business policy and View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
Ariane Cornell Head, Astronaut Strategy and Sales, Blue Origin Cornell calls the West Texas launch and landing a “learning experience,” noting that Blue Origin is slated to reach into orbital space before the end of the decade. (courtesy... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
Steakhouse. He thought I could use a break,” says Hicks with a laugh that punctuates much of her conversation. During that summer, Oesterle “quickly saw that she was extraordinary,” he says. Hicks graduated intending to work as a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
Rosenbaum: Women students feel a judgmental difference. When I started at HBS in 2006, I was a 24-year-old Jewish Latina who was also enrolled at Harvard Law School. In my brief professional experience, I had already been a successful public-relations View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
notes Cahill. Among the clubs that support nonprofits, the HBS Association of Southeastern New England and the HBS Club of Philadelphia have hosted nonprofit conferences for several years. These conferences provide nonprofit leaders with leading-edge thinking on... View Details