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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
hardest assignments. He drafted plans to institute new military regulations, to reform the inspector general's office, and—most remarkably—to reorganize the entire army . Despite his emotional insecurities, he had total confidence in his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
the West, Chai hopes a more favorable political climate will allow her to return home. Chai's leadership and organizational abilities were honed early. When she was ten, her mother and father, both military doctors, put her in charge of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
hands-on practitioners to the faculty. Cheerfully characterizing his faculty appointment as "Dennis: Act III," the energetic Hightower became a senior lecturer in 1996 and a professor of management in 1997 following an exemplary business career and a stellar eight-year... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
Moir Donelson's first year at West Point wasn't easy. "Brains," as his Southside Chicago buddies called him, was valedictorian, class president, and a football star at his high school, yet he found it difficult to make a C average at the famously rigorous View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
every country in the world. "One of the high points of that trip," recalls Corti, "was flying over and touching down on the endless plains of Russia. You realize how enormous the country is and the folly of trying to conquer it." Military... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
peace in Indochina was signed by one-third of the student body and later publicly denounced by other students who felt the gesture misrepresented the majority's opinion at the School. Bearded "peaceniks" faced off in heated debate with Vietnam vets who still wore View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
dabbled in military journalism (as much a misnomer, Navasky says, as military music), after which he enrolled at Yale Law School. At Yale, he cofounded and spent much of his time working on Monocle, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
not-so-pretty picture of a frustrating and baffling decline in performance by the varsity boat at the United States Military Academy. Polzer, whose teaching and research focus on organizational behavior, leadership, and teams, sees many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
year, Taylor hasn’t succeeded in using his military service to outflank his opponent. Edwards is a hawk on military matters, voting for the first Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq. Local veterans praise his... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
filter into their retirement. “One thing that my family drilled into me at a super-young age was the importance of education,” says Akuete. She was lucky, she notes, having won the “geographic lottery” simply by being born in the States after her family emigrated... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
a city on fire, literally. There was no traffic in the streets except for military vehicles of the coalition. There were no shops open. I slept at night in those days with earplugs in my ears because otherwise I was kept awake by the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
life-threatening experiences when they were blindsided by weather during their military service. Those shared experiences led them to found ClimaCell in 2015 to provide more accurate and reliable forecasts both to businesses and to... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
including NFL and NHL teams. Use cases also include military and elder care markets. All told, Unger estimates peak revenues to reach about $375 million. Nix is still in the midst of product development, but it expects to set the market... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
but resistance becomes more deadly. Coalition military morale has collapsed. The outcome will be decided by approaching US elections. High economic and political costs force rethinks. Oil drives all. Production averaged about 2 million... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Gamble's leadership training programs. There's nothing like having to step into a decision maker's shoes to learn about leadership." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "If you can find work that both stretches you and plays to your strengths, you'll have a remarkable career.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
playbook—maybe in even a larger and more extreme way. It’s what in military circles people call “fighting the last war.” This is a familiar trap, when military planners become so obsessed with the last war... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
blame someone else.” On “Don’t ask, don’t tell”: “It struck me that I’m leading an institution whose main value is integrity—yet I’m asking men and women who are willing to die for their country to lie about who they are every single day.” In service: “The View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
surprised Cooper most was how much he picked up from his classmates. “As a military officer, I had a very different background from someone who had worked, say, at Procter and Gamble,” he says. “We learned from each other, and that helped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
that appear to have never been debated. That includes ‘nation-building’ or what would happen after we passed through major military operations.” Despite his eventual, lonely opposition (now hailed as courageous by many observers) to the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons