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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
Founder and Chairman, FiBA Group Download Özyeğin profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1945 Born, Izmir, Turkey 1966 Elected student body president at Oregon State 1972 Returns to Turkey for military View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
Corporate Director's Guidebook, the basic attributes for board service eligibility are common sense, practical wisdom, and informed judgment. Add to these baseline qualities the skills and experience... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
employee job security may hurt some services businesses. "It seems to me that job security is a major element in employee productivity," he comments. "If staff members spend a lot of time worrying whether their jobs will be there... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
looking at which qualities and characteristics psychologists consider to be “gendered” to see if they were stereotypically male or female. We found that if you look at the top ten characteristics, more than half were male, a small number... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
company, Ventro, which provides services for online exchanges. While the gold rush days of the late 1990s may be over, there is still a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for entrepreneurship among HBS students, faculty, and alumni. “The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
living conditions of the people who fix your house, mow your lawn, teach your children, and are the first responders in an emergency. Ask how they can have the same quality of life that you do.” View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
character and leadership qualities of several prominent figures, past and present — including President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) — whose work has had broad social or political implications. “It’s not a business book,” Zaleznik explains.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
assistance of coworkers. The changes were designed to enhance safety and reliability, but the intervention had the unintended consequence of changing the way many of these men behaved and thought about themselves. In your paper, you use the term “purposive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
studying the air they breathe when they are at the surface; we study them where they live, underwater. And yet that’s exactly what we do with humans. For all this time spent indoors, we tend to focus much more on outdoor air quality than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and alcohol abuse counseling. I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
always going to be here, but we needed to have a base of operations closer to California, where we do a lot of work, and Boulder is a great quality of life complement to Miami. Last year we had to close the agency for about a week after a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
boosting the quality of life in close to 50 communities. In Nepal, Heifer’s guidance is bringing several villages out of economic distress. “We are 20 months into a new operation of goat farming there,” says Ferrari. “They’ve made $2.5... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
never forget — the men understood that no invasion of Japan would be necessary and that the war’s end was near. In 1947, I was discharged from the Navy and began teaching at HBS ten days later. As we all know, HBS is a very special place, in large part because of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
senior executives from Fortune 1000 companies. Among employees, 73 percent expressed interest in a defined contribution system, citing advantages such as the ability to choose the best quality plan in which their physician participates... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the elements of our Credo focused on creating a community unified in its mission to improve quality of life.” The release goes on to note that Edwards has partnered with firms that have expertise in using capital to benefit underserved... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
is meant to be the kind of place where people want to hang out, talk, or get some work done, and we encourage them to do so. What aspect of Panera most excites you? We’ve gotten all sorts of awards for the quality of our bread. We have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Marketing; Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization; Real Property Asset Management; Venture Capital and Private Equity; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; and Running and Growing the Small Company. Several related courses include View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
buildings 10 miles east of Mexico City that is populated by some of the country’s poorest citizens. Over the past two years, though, market days have been busier than normal at the store—all thanks to a little silver service booth just... View Details