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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world’s democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
diverse: 35 percent are female, 33 percent are international representing 73 countries, and 21 percent are minorities. The median age is 27. Such diversity is essential to prepare MBAs to live and work in a global economy, Dewey explains. For all the change she has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
focused on the role of business leaders in this issue. For the HBS faculty team, that meant engaging with HBS alumni in multiple ways. First, the Project launched an unprecedented survey of all alumni “to get their perceptions on how the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
isn’t just about breaking barriers or achieving parity—it’s about fundamentally transforming how organizations operate. The crossroads of rapid technological advancement, changing workplace dynamics, and evolving societal expectations has created an opportunity for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Leadership and Innovation in a New Global Economy So-Young Kang (MBA 2004) (Awaken Group Pte. Ltd.) Too often, people look at leaders and focus on their accomplishments and successes, but Kang examines the more human side of 12... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996. Her new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry (Jossey-Bass), analyzes and draws lessons from the factors that made one company — Baxter International — a standout in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
earnings a minuscule percentage of sales. In this environment of change, Mitsubishi Corporation was ready to select a new leader in 1992. The choice was Makihara, who had just returned from a posting in New York City as head of U.S.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Teaching Commission, a nonprofit organization that seeks to change how public school teachers are trained and compensated. A longtime activist for education reform, Gerstner is passionate when discussing this issue. "The leaders in our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
isn’t just critical to succeeding in one’s career—it’s also essential to being a strong leader and good teammate. That mindset helped us strengthen friendships with each other while also delivering value to our Israeli partners,” he adds.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
efforts of more than one hundred companies as they attempt to make themselves stronger competitors. He identifies the most common mistakes of leaders and managers as they try to create change and offers an eight-step process to help firms... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
effectively. At Soldiers Field we learned how to gauge uncertainty, weigh aftereffects, and make decisions without reinventing the wheel. Above all, the School supported us in becoming leaders who could make a difference. More than a few... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
moments when I am a good leader and there are moments when I am not,” he admits. Having devoted his entire career to Corning—both the company and the small town where it sits on the Chemung River—Weeks’s success is hard to miss, whether... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
full time within four months of graduation. Chertavian, who didn’t take a salary for six years, says that Year Up works not because of charity, but because the program’s participants are providing meaningful skills. The leaders of some... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
qualified leaders who fall below the sight lines of directors and their personal networks. In these uncertain times, in particular," he concludes, "the stakes are too high for such a narrow perspective." — Peter K. Jacobs Adapted from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
last summer that the time had come to “start looking outward before I get too old to do anything” and find his own way to give back to the world. Murch's leave from Expedia ended in January, but he's decided not to return for now. Instead, he's agreed to become a View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
private-sector leaders selected by Fortune for its 2002 list of the “50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America” are HBS graduates, and nearly a quarter of the executives on the list have participated in HBSAAA conferences and events.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
open up new possibilities within and between groups. Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business by Anthony K. Tjan (MBA 1998), Richard J. Harrington, and Tsun-Yan Hsieh (MBA 1980) (Harvard Business Review Press) The... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
business leaders from the region. Session topics covered the current status and outlook for various industries and issues ranging from venture and investment capital, to entertainment and media, to consumer marketing. Other panels... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
fragmented sector of over a million highly dissimilar organizations. How do you begin to encourage for-profit business leaders to become more involved with the nonprofit sector? To bring these elements together, we need to build a conduit... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
different structures, processes, and systems. In such an environment, he stressed, the School's mission to educate leaders continues to be of utmost importance. Highlighting alumni such as Ann Fudge (MBA '77), group VP of Kraft Foods;... View Details