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- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
chief talent officer at Netflix. You won’t find empty values statements on the walls of a Netflix conference room, not on McCord’s watch. As she helped to build Netflix into a media giant, McCord articulated the behaviors the company... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who directs the University’s Center... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
$475 $500 95% *Total includes undesignated and unrestricted gifts, as well as planned gifts at present value Stamps Gift Supports Baker Reading Room A recent campaign gift of $12 million from the charitable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor have made remarkable contributions to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do. “These five distinguished alumni are role... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula
Illustrations by James Steinberg It’s been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes science fact, and with science-based firms View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
this problem was a good fit to my personality. What I found powerful is that for me I had to have a model of how each of the different parties to the negotiation saw the world, what their pressures on them were, where their funding was, what their time scale was, what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
get into the generics business? PROFITABLE YEAR: Speaking at a January 18, 2007, press conference in Basel, Switzerland, Vasella announced that Novartis's 2006 net income rose 17 percent to $7.2 billion. We have been active in generics... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
all. But Branson, whose career began in the late 1960s when he launched a student magazine and then a record company, told the audience that his enterprises all fit the company's brand. He defined the Virgin brand as representing service and View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
support each other and who see the value in all-natural and homemade. — Stacy Smollin Schwartz (MBA 2003) A few ideas: 1) Create a kitty mascot that has a Twitter feed/Facebook presence. Use posts to hint at View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
think of it, that’s the challenge for the superintendent of a large city school system, or the head of a charter school —‘How do I take care of and support my people?’ ” The best of what is known from management studies and experience, Leschly argues, can certainly be... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
purpose-driven, and that’s why it appealed to me,” she says. Kovatch’s passion for innovation and solving complex challenges at Covanta led her to found a consultancy, Fueled for Growth, where she helps businesses to find value for their... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
debates on their differing approaches to the issue. Breaking the Code of Change, presented in a point-counterpoint style, is an edited collection of pairs of opposing papers given by conference participants. Each of the seven sections of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
million on energy conservation projects, cutting generation demand by 116 megawatts and saving 194,300 megawatt-hours of electricity, compared with the forecasts. The net value of the energy saved was $90... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
anyone. Most of the top executives didn’t understand the risks they were taking, so can you imagine a septuagenarian sitting in the boardroom getting a PowerPoint presentation on synthetic CDOs and credit default swaps?” In a conference... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Herzlinger has led by example. Married for 47 years and the mother of two Harvard College graduates, she has maintained a steadfast focus on research, course development, teaching, and advocacy. Although her early days as a faculty member View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger (Berrett-Koehler) Based on decades of collective field experiences, the authors present anecdotal evidence in support of eight things that great service leaders know and do. Great... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that... View Details