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- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied to HBS. After cutting her teeth with McKinsey on a rural development project in... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
search firm Egon Zehnder, Mueller-Maerki continued acquiring clocks, although at a certain point his focus shifted from collecting the objects themselves (of which he now owns about 80) to amassing books and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Dec 2014
- News
Laying the foundation for a better understanding of Japan
students will be our future leaders. I would like to increase the number of cases on Japanese companies so that they really understand Japan,” explains Sato. Drawing on his experience as a partner in an executive View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
a panel of speakers—Angela Crispi (MBA 1990), Executive Dean for Administration at HBS; Jana Pompadur Kierstead, Executive Director for MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations at HBS; and Heather... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
I want to show my support for an institution that has made and will continue to make a valuable contribution to management practice all over the world," says Andreas Andresen (69th AMP), a retired German industrialist who recently became the first European and the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
Trade Center, Lhota and the others went to 75 Barclay Street, formerly a Merrill Lynch office, searching for working phone lines - "communications meant everything at that point, and cell phones were useless, overloaded with calls," Lhota... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
As executives of an international company are considering workforce reductions in Europe and South America, they are providing layoff support to employees and working with communities to create incentives for new businesses to replace... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
Baillet lived in a tent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, while working with consulting firm Dalberg to help the U.S. State Department develop a permanent housing strategy to serve the approximately 1.5 million Haitians displaced by the January... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
plan. A key component of the REP is the hiring of a chief diversity and inclusion officer (CDIO) to advance many aspects of the plan. How is the search proceeding? We’ve narrowed the field to several terrific candidates and will have the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
some tales, and then ask for tips,” Bines says. The experience taught him that the better you understand your customer, the richer the tips. He has worked in customer-facing businesses ever since, including his current role as managing director at the global consulting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
revitalize product lines produced by some of America’s most recognizable retailers. More recently, Ross, a self-styled corporate maverick, has branched out from products to explore process in pursuit of corporate America’s elusive holy grail: successful product... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
United States in 2021. The Juneteenth Story provides an accessible introduction for kids to learn about this important American holiday. The Changing C-Suite: Executive Power in Transformation By José Luis Alvarez (PhD OB 1991) and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
elective, The Management of New Enterprises. This in turn spawned other such course offerings throughout the 1960s and ’70s in the MBA and Executive Education programs. Many students indeed were going on to become entrepreneurs as alumni.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
different situations. Felix Oberholzer-Gee: It’s true for almost everyone that [the MBA experience] sets their sights higher in some form. They come in and think, “Oh, I’m going to be a successful executive of some sort,” but as they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
Historic in many ways, the campaign is enabling work that is essential to the School’s core purposes: transformative teaching in both MBA and Executive Education classrooms; deep research to impact business practice; and the dissemination... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
Robert S. ("Bob") Gardella cheerfully admits that he found his position as assistant director of Alumni Career Services (ACS) in the most unlikely way: through an ad in the newspaper. Now his job is to help give HBS alumni the skills and knowledge to launch a career... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
sponsored by Section NG that was held on campus last April to benefit Summer Search Boston (SSB). A nonprofit organization, SSB provides scholarships for summer programs to high-school students who demonstrate strength of character and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons