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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States). Led by Global Adrenaline cofounder and president Nancy Collins (MBA ’99), Himalayan scholar and guide Jon Miceler, and our two very knowledgeable and attentive Bhutanese guides, Karma Loday... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Commemorating a Milestone
events, and special projects. (For details, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/women50.html.) The Bulletin is marking the milestone, beginning with this issue. As with all "firsts," there's a backstory. Ours involves a number of women who led the... View Details
Keywords: Meta
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
professor Lou Wells, who led the Rwanda IXP. Accompanying Wells were Laura Moon, director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, and Dana Pratt from the School’s IXP office. “Participants have to think through issues that we often fail... View Details
- Profile
Juliane Schwetz
Logistics Corps officer. “At my level,” Juliane explains, “it was about getting all the soldiers I led the resources they needed to do their jobs as easily and efficiently as possible.” While getting an MBA is a requirement for her... View Details
- 07 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Attending Peek Weekend
the Peek experience. Participants were divided into one of three cohorts: STEM, Family Business, and Women’s Colleges. The diversity among Peek participants led to deep, meaningful discussion that resembled the class dynamics that take... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
Tsai’s (MBA 1989) Napa winery, Moone-Tsai. THE SAMURAI: Tōru “Decades of business memos” led Stephanie Spong (MBA 1992) to embrace the “freedom of fictional storytelling” under the pseudonym Stephanie R. Sorensen. Her first novel, Tōru:... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock options. During the bull market years... View Details
- Student-Profile
Rowan Clarke
deeply interested in an institution with a demonstrated commitment to applied research. The guiding idea? “What can I do with my interests and my life that will be meaningful and make a difference?” he says. “That was the thinking that View Details
- 02 May 2023
- News
Banking’s Regular Rescuer
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn With this week's takeover of First Republic, the New York Times took a look at how JPMorgan Chase, led by CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982), has leveraged its role as the go-to bank when other banks fail. First Republic is now the third... View Details
- 21 Oct 2021
- News
DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
Photo courtesy Drive By DraftKings A recent article in the Boston Globe reported that the venture capital firm Drive by DraftKings, led by Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), had raised its first venture fund. Called Drive by DraftKings,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Sir David Clementi Named BBC Chairman
(Getty Images) (Getty Images) Sir David Clementi (MBA 1975), former deputy governor of the Bank of England and former chairman of Prudential, has been confirmed as the next chairman of the BBC. Clementi led a review of the BBC’s... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 24–26 Aug 2016
- Reunion
HBS Executive Education Global Alumni Leadership Summit
This special two-day summit is designed exclusively for members of our HBS alumni community. We hope that you will take part in the global conversation, and look forward to welcoming you back on campus for the celebration. View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
mid-1970s, young Dal ended up with a backside full of splinters. His penance, as he searched for a pair of tweezers with needle points to pull out the painful shards of wood, was to discover the difficulty of finding any kind of suitably surgical tweezers. This View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
attention. Exclusivity is still the norm, but the consensus around it is slowly shrinking." The Consolidation Myth Choices made in conflict policies can influence the size and distribution of agencies that the industry can support. This has View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
globalized and became more competitive in the '90s, as the world became more difficult, CEOs got busier and joined fewer boards," Kaufman says. "That was one of the things that led boards to look further afield for directors.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
contemplates whether or not to get involved with other investors in trying to replace the board of directors at Take-Two Interactive. The company has been encountering a number of problems with its accounting methods and in the design of its products, etc. All of this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
purchasing and brought process discipline to store operations through using Six Sigma quality methodology. Although the changes led to higher profitability, the retailer's stock price remained unchanged. Many wondered if poor stock market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
this product. Interestingly, they were able to use the model to predict how competing firms might react to different marketing scenarios, which led to better estimates of the real changes in demand that would result from a new marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Every entrepreneur's real control depends on the intensity of the business and the number and kinds of partners." HBS professors Linda A. Hill and Nancy F. Koehn led participants through two case studies of dynamic female business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Casey Gerald
stakeholders to the table, working in collaborative fashion, “to build a movement, to answer these questions, and not perpetuate our organization.” You obviously see the world differently than a lot of people. What led to this... View Details