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Ryan Flamerich

never. I asked anyone who would listen for time, and I found my way to a cargo airline. My experience led me to write a case on airline finance that is now taught to all first-year MBA students. A year later, the industry is still... View Details

Intriguing Questions

Growing up in Nepal at a time when the country was going through immense political turmoil, I wondered how the momentous events I was living through fit in with the broader arc of history. My urge to make progress on economic and political issues plaguing my country... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Tata Open for Business

Jr. (MBA 1956) led Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), chairman of India's Tata Sons Ltd., out of Kresge Hall toward Storrow Drive, Light and Spangler gestured out to the space in front of them. This spot—with its beautiful views of Cambridge and... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Construction of Buildings; Construction

01 Mar 2011
News

Faculty Research Online

to blame for the recent financial crisis? The fault lies partly with scholars of economics, says David Moss, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration. In this working paper, he argues that an academic focus on government failure in the second half of the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

Internasional Harvard Business School Case 207-021 In late 2004, Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of the publicly traded Indonesian oil company Medco Energi Internasional, is striving to regain majority control of the company his brother Arifin founded in 1980. The Asian financial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

Beth Thoren (MBA 1992) was a teenager in Japan the first time she saw the ocean. “I thought it was the most beautiful and fragile thing I’d ever seen,” she recalls. The experience sparked a lifelong interest in the natural world and led... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

leading from the street to the house itself. That insight, coupled with the radical nature of precision medicine, led to a realization: A “business as usual” approach wouldn’t do the trick; a different way of fighting cancer required an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

for loved ones, improving the job prospects of disadvantaged young people, or enabling us to communicate in new ways, the successful enterprises built and led by the 2014 awardees have had a deep impact on business and society. Gerald... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Teaching Teachers

by Professor Tom Piper, under the auspices of the HBS Global Initiative. The colloquium's schedule — which ran twelve to fourteen hours a day — included discussions led by HBS faculty on course design and development, case-method... View Details

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

managers have risen in power, general managers may be losing some of theirs. A new working paper, Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management, explores several factors that have led CEOs... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

Thomas and HBS Emeritus professor John Gabarro focused not on the fact that less than 3 percent of top executives were persons of color, but on the factors that led that 3 percent to success. "We wanted to understand, when people of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

companies, when the CEO doesn't do well, the CEO gets replaced. When the CEO does do well, there is almost no chance that person will be replaced. If he or she has led the company to success, that person is about as solid in the position... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

longer-term success. Q: What personal or professional experiences or observations led you to concentrate your research and thinking on this time period for executives? Why have you found this period to be so rarely studied? A: I started... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

development piqued her interest, and she joined the group as chief engineer on the new markets and autonomy team. There, she led projects to study disruptive mobility that could help Boeing break into new markets, everything from drones... View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

Leading the Way

Photos by Russ Campbell “An investment in the School is ultimately an investment in a better world—one led by alumni.” —John Hess “HBS graduates are in every part of the economy, in every industry, and in every geography. I believe we can... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

05 Apr 2020
News

Launching in a World in Limbo

launch, the New York Times chronicled Whitman and Katzenberg’s challenging third act in a story called, “Two Veteran C.E.O.s Risk $1.8 Billion on a Streaming App. In a Pandemic.” Both led some of the biggest companies in the U.S. before... View Details

23 Jan 2017
News

The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee

Although he had led major divisions of large companies, this was the first time Burwick, now 55, would be CEO. Started by Alfred Peet in 1966 in Berkeley, Peet’s has been a popular Bay Area company with a strong brand, said director of... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS

financial services organization to one of the country's most successful investment banking firms. Chalsty plans to be in attendance at the March Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town. He will serve on a panel led by HBS professor André... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line

package, angel investment opportunities, the creation of wealth in the digital age, the building of successful urban enterprises, and transferring wealth to future generations. A provocative discussion on the relationships among success, wealth, and networks was View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

09 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 9

sales force? And should the sales team be led by an experienced senior sales executive or a scrappy, mid-level sales manager? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/813125-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-148 Glynn Roberts:... View Details