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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
swimming, and it’s good for the body, brain, and nervous system to learn new patterns.” Tennis Player “Find time in your schedule to play someone weaker than you, someone at the same level as you, and someone stronger than you every week,” says Matija Pecotic (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
officer and an administrator in the office of the Quartermaster General, earning the rank of captain. World War II had a significant impact on Christensen’s career. The organizational challenges of warfare on a global scale encouraged the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
neighborhoods across Baltimore, with competitive admissions) is annually ranked among the best public schools in the United States. This year, 96 percent of the school's graduates are college bound, many to elite institutions in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Bradley led 1.23 million men as commander of 12 Army Group on the Western Front to bring an end to World War II. Bradley was the youngest and last of nine men to earn five-star rank and the only army officer so honored after World War II.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
employees. By 2012, sales had increased by nearly 50 percent, and VW’s brand ranking had climbed from No. 55 to No. 39. Based on consumer surveys, brand monitor Interbrand selected VW as the top environmental brand in 2012. While creating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
be many years, indeed decades, before the full vision is realized, we only stand to benefit from the interactions and activities the move will bring. What’s your view on business school rankings? The difficulty with the rankings is they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
reveals wild fluctuations. As Judge Medina stated when reviewing the changing rankings of underwriters a half-century ago, “The only pattern is no pattern.” Thus, the reality of the market seems dramatically different from the typical... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
truly customer-centric, Kristy and I have to be working hand in glove,” says Flatley. It’s something she learned as she rose through the ranks of PepsiCo: The people who own the insights, she says, are closest to the consumer. “I see her... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
than twice as likely to pick it for that spot than were their older colleagues (who ranked the Internet only slightly ahead of jet travel). "More people are using the Internet faster than was the case with the automobile, the telephone,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
This spring marked both the end of the academic year and a new beginning as HBS graduated more than nine hundred MBA students. These extremely talented young graduates joined the ranks of over 65,000 fellow alumni, located in 89 countries... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
and were almost stormed by the villagers,” Khoja says. Baksheesh—a word that encompasses charitable giving, tipping, and bribery—is another cultural norm in Afghanistan. A 2013 Transparency International report ranked Afghanistan in a... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
measured? How does India’s accountability rank against other countries? Does accountability affect economic and social performance? He examines the mechanisms that hold governance institutions accountable, explains why many governance... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
you have about the business is the main way an investor figures out whether or not you have the people skills to actually make a plan happen.” The judges’ rankings are unveiled at an awards ceremony in late April. Each of the four teams... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
a thriving organization of significant scale. Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) played a key role in just such a transition at Amgen, which now ranks as the largest biotechnology firm in the world. A California-based firm that discovers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
grounding in every aspect of the business. “I like to tell people that I rose up the ranks through the sheer force of nepotism,” he deadpans with self-deprecating humor. He made HBS his last training stop before taking over as president... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
majority, leadership ranks remain male-dominated. The persistence of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven’t we made more progress? In Glass Half Broken, Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg reveal the pervasive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
contemplated becoming a professor, but was persuaded to stay on at the School. In 1963, he completed his DBA and joined the faculty. Over the next seventeen years, he moved up through the School’s ranks — teaching finance, writing cases,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
spending a large amount of time and resources on activities that do not create any value for stakeholders or customers.” The World Bank’s annual report on global business regulation, Doing Business 2010, ranks India 133 out of 183 nations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
he founded in Sanliurfa. One of Turkey’s most successful business leaders and philanthropists, Hüsnü Özyeğin is a self-made man. After working his way through college and business school — including running the Gallows Grill in Gallatin Hall at HBS — he rose through... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
a candidate’s character. The fact that HBS lands at or near the top of the various business-school rankings doesn’t mean that the Admis-sions staff sits back and waits for applications to pile up. In fact, Dewey’s office conducts a... View Details