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01 Jun 2010
News

MBA Career Office Wins Award

The MBA Career & Professional Develop-ment office has received the 2009 IBM Excellence in Career Services Award. The award “recognizes academic career centers that provide outstanding commitment and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

09 Jan 2014
News

Tapping into Opportunity

beverage companies, and they know they have major water issues." This has created a rapidly increasing demand for technologies and services to discover, manage, filter, and disinfect and/or desalinate water, and to improve infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Oct 2001
News

Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch

met for a catered lunch in a room next to Welch's office on the 53rd floor of the GE Building at Rockefeller Plaza. "We talked nonstop," says Sanders, who spent his summer in Boston at the investment management firm of Gannett Welsh &... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM Inc. (now part of CSC), a... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Financial Services; Financial Services

01 Jun 2003
News

Student Conferences, at a Glance

Fitzhugh Conference Redefining Wealth: Claim It, Grow It, Sustain It January 31–February 2, 2003 Sponsor: HBS African-American Student Union Keynote speaker: Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972), president & CEO, The Partnership, Inc. Bert King Award for View Details

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

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

firms to large capital-intensive enterprises, such as banking, telecommunications, mining, and transportation. By the late 1980s, many had developed a good deal of autonomy. Twenty-five years of economic reform have changed the structure... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2007
News

New HBS, KSG Joint Degree

years of the program, in a public service or policy-based position; the second, between the third and fourth years, in a private sector or for-profit organization. “There is no academic program in the world that can match the theoretical,... View Details

Keywords: Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

managers are making strides toward finding new career models that better suit their reality. If not the "perfect answer" to the parenting/ career dichotomy, their approach at least validates their dual desire to care for their families and use their MBA skills in ways... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Sep 2003
News

Richard Edelman

Whether it is dolphin-rights advocates and tuna producers, or insurance companies and victims of the 9/11 tragedy, Richard W. Edelman is interested in bringing different worlds together. He is comfortable with conflict, and his 25 years in the family View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Jun 2003
News

Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies

details). His service to HBS is long–standing: In 1981, he and his classmate, Fayez Sarofim, funded the first professorship at HBS in the field of entrepreneurship (which has been held by Howard H. Stevenson since its inception). From... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Sep 2005
News

Faculty Research Online

How Are They Unique? Business leadership is at the core of Asian economic development, says Professor D. Quinn Mills. American and Asian leadership styles, while very different, share important similarities. Creating a Positive View Details

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

01 Sep 2008
News

Kenny Appointed Chief Marketing Officer

Brian Kenny, who has nearly twenty years of experience in marketing and communications at universities and firms such as Monitor, Genuity, and Arthur D. Little, has been named chief marketing and communications officer at HBS, a newly... View Details

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

01 Dec 2007
News

All Aboard for Board Members

Since Alumni Career Services launched its board of directors résumé database a year ago, it has grown to more than 1,000 names of HBS graduates interested in serving on public or private boards. Initially, only executive search View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

02 Dec 2010
News

Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs

start by choosing the product they want to make or the service they want to provide and then try to convince the market to buy it. It makes more sense to start a business the other way around: Identify what the market needs first, and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

Career Coach

Kristin Brennan

candidates, and moving across the boundaries of strategy consulting or professional services roles v. operating roles with direct line authority. Prior to her current role, Kristin worked in leadership... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

01 Sep 2009
News

Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

require listed firms to have a majority of independent directors and mandate compensation committees to be entirely composed of outside directors. The exchanges also require firms to get shareholder approval... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

available at this time. When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance Authors:Thomas J. DeLong, John Gabarro, and Robert Lees Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Abstract For too long, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2008
News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a... View Details