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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
rates or the minimum wage, reflect the public’s efforts to find the right balance between these competing arguments. That may not be pretty, but it makes me hopeful. How do people make decisions about these big economic questions?... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
and was a leading figure in teaching a new required module in Decision Making and Ethical Values. Since retiring from the active faculty four years ago, Lodge has continued his research on globalization and the development of emerging... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
wife, Booda, and their son, Cole, born on the first day of classes last fall. He and his wife, who suspended her own career for the couple to come to HBS, decided that he could make a greater contribution to society through a career in medical technology than by... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
contending with fallout from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. “As a general manager you’re going to get letters from organizations that say do X, Y, or Z,” Oberholzer-Gee observes. “How should you think about them? There are a number of strategic moves that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
successful turnaround management is to try to make the least bad decision based on imperfect and incomplete information,” Tisch says. “The case method helped prepare me to do that.” Tisch's leadership qualities were very much in evidence... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
then made the decision to not try and bluff my way through and waste everyone’s time, but rather to say out loud that I wasn’t prepared but certainly would be tomorrow. There was an audible collective gasp. Then Professor Salmon moved on.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
sustainable use of resources. Wal-Mart, for example, just committed to buy seafood only from MSC-certified fisheries. This decision has rocked the industry because Wal-Mart is the second-largest buyer of fish in the United States. We’re... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
envisioned in my book. These tools will be game changers in the post-pandemic economy.” Yet technology can come with a “dark side.” In her HBS classroom, Mills challenges MBA students to consider the responsibilities of business leaders in an era when View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
which fired Condo’s imagination. He was also excited by the concepts in HBS professor Michael Porter’s watershed 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “My decision to study at Harvard was inspired by the idea of teaching and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
challenges traditional views about the source of Japan's competitive success. Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, head of the unit's required course, Competition and Strategy, focuses on strategic commitments - decisions that involve significant... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
redefine their roles as facilitators and supporters rather than drivers and decision makers. Thinking about regional economic strategy needs to evolve from expensive and politically complicated infrastructure-type projects into lots of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
kind of generosity. Royalties from this book go to Christian ministries focused on spreading the Gospel and providing for those in need. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade Risk by... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
added that "with almost Œreal-time' information, business can now make appropriate decisions rather than guess." Second on the list was telecommunications, "a great facilitator, the pipeline that allows other innovations to happen (the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
that a decision to convict can take away his liberty for the rest of his life. I had thought that our jury’s vote at the conclusion of the trial would be the end of the story. But I was mistaken. For me the jury verdict was only the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
The miracle, she says, is when the child starts making wise or mindful decisions on their own. After giving some talks about the book to local parent groups in Atlanta where she lives, Jones has started presenting webinars to HBS and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Yellowstone. What’s your proudest achievement? Being willing and able to make tough decisions during the credit crisis that, although not perfect, I believe were largely correct. When are you most relaxed? When I’m saltwater fly-fishing.... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
doing. I had no interest, association, or connection to the entertainment industry, nothing—until I met a mentor who took a chance on me.” “When Norman Lear asked me to take over the creative direction of his television shows, it was a View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
elective, as well as a doctoral seminar on Research Design and Measurement. Silk's earlier work focused on developing models and measurement systems to support decisions in the area of new product development and marketing communications.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
that you should. Consider corporate time horizons. It’s a choice to attempt to maximize corporate results over the very short run and a different and sometimes harder decision to take a longer-term view. I’m convinced that one of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)