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- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Leonard and Lynn Paine, for helping him expand his thinking about the role of business and his own career approach. “Joe was very insightful,” he says. “He really helped me create a lifelong learning program for myself.” Crespin’s resolve... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Christenson was, for example, among the first to bring the social sciences into the mainstream of practical business studies in the MBA Program. In 1976 he also developed a teaching program that brought HBS methods to the training of... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, Families in Business. One of the thornier problems we... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
we have maintained our operating budget relatively flat, which means we’ve had to take $20 million out of other areas. And that’s quite a challenge without sacrificing safety or efficiency. What other security steps have you taken? We’ve... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
industry. Promoting from within is no promise of success, of course. Former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal was with the company 21 years before his forced resignation on October 30. But strong leadership and effective succession programs... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
the best music and dance of Bollywood and infuse it with an interval training–based cardio workout to create a fitness program that is both physically and mentally invigorating for our class participants. We have designed a unique... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
educational system. The business community can actually serve as a force to oppose or support anything the government does." Nigeria is trying to get the business community involved in a national economic summit to look at the budget... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
for enterprise-sized businesses, where multiple teams (of 50 to 1,000 people) are collaborating on a single program to build hardware. Companies fitting that description tend to be in aerospace and defense, Wen says, so Stell focused on... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
Kennealey, who embraces the school’s emphasis on spiritual awareness, social responsibility, and academic excellence (98 percent of graduates are college-bound). He accepted the post at a challenging time. Salesianum had experienced several years of View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
money” is not always a convincing pitch for cities. “The reality is, 80 percent of a city’s operating budget is people,” says Weiss. “When you say, ‘save money,’ what they hear is ‘lay off people.’ That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
Image by C.J. Burton Since the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) program was launched at HBS 17 years ago, it has provided nonprofits with something they need but can rarely afford: executive training. SPNM, which is... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
mention for 30 seconds that Greece might have to do an austerity program, and they’ll repeat it 100 times over the next week. Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
rewarded, despite the fact that US companies are spending more than a fifth of their budgets on wages. What employees crave even more is to feel that their managers appreciate them and aren’t afraid to show it, not only in paycheck terms,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
corporate synergies should be defined at the top and realized in the business units. Just as the CFO coordinates the budgeting process, a senior executive should coordinate the alignment process—a responsibility for the Office of Strategy... View Details
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
she got some friends in the economics program to attend and the HBS recruiter was so impressed she suggested Farrington apply. Farrington was accepted, along with several friends from Smith, and agreed to attend but only after working for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
workweek is filled with staff meetings, conferences, public events, negotiations with government officials about programs and their implementation, and donor-relations work with local embassies. She finds that all these various activities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
especially timely, coming as they did on the heels of a failed EU budget summit in Brussels and the French and Dutch “no” votes on the proposed EU constitution. For those in the audience not well-versed in European politics and economics,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
to the social security system can be deposited in private versus public accounts, the transition "cost" (really a fiscal budget deficit) will be up to $2 trillion. Theoretically, the impact of this on pensioners could be... View Details