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- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
From a course comes a movement. When the first Women on Boards (WOB) Executive Education program wrapped up in 2016, the cohort of 67 women from 17 countries, who had studied with HBS faculty how boards worked and the skills needed to navigate them, felt inspired and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA 1983) was classic HBS: He worked... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
and growing and sustaining the enterprise. "We can't teach people how to come up with ideas, but we can teach them how to analyze ideas already available to them," he explains. "We also teach that entrepreneurs must react quickly not only... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
this kind of environment it's difficult to establish strategy in any detail. What we're trying to do is establish direction and figure out where we can move to create competitive advantage. Sustaining that... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new ways of grounding to sustain us... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
real, serious, sustained commitment to shoot for the pinnacle — and to defend and advance your position if you attain it.” Yet luxury’s challenge remains an ongoing enticement for Birnbaum and the other alumni interviewed for this... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
managerial know-how and resources, "needs to shift its focus from macroeconomics and finance to sustaining and enhancing the capabilities of key organizations, from bureaucracies to schools and firms." Other faculty members who have... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
long-term proposition that often requires years of complicated research, negotiation, construction, and drilling before a drop of oil or a penny of profit is produced. The capital required to initiate and to sustain this far-flung... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
customer experience and low cost? In this book, strategy and operations experts Siggelkow and Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
gentrification and daily quality of life,” says John Peters (MBA 1986), who worked on two separate projects for the Mayor’s Office for Civic Innovation (MOCI): the Strategy Project, focused on clarifying the MOCI’s vision and mission; and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
he has known during his career. He elucidates the extraordinary lessons that can be learned from everyday experiences and shows how, by altering our perceptions, we can better overcome the challenges we face at work and in family matters. The Three-Box Solution: A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
business strategy takes care of itself.” It’s a philosophy that has taken him from the research firm he founded at 26 to the chairmanship of Atlantic Media. When I grow up: “When I was 13 years old, I read Advise and Consent about the US... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
systems. What does it mean to be globally competitive in today’s economy? From a business fundamentals perspective, you win through innovation, low cost, or better customer service; in my opinion, innovation is the most sustainable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authors argue that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions, half of which are unsuccessful because this key factor is neglected. This practical manual helps managers optimize and streamline their growth View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and staying engaged in some way are intrinsic to sustaining both confidence and opportunities. Serving on meaningful nonprofit boards that deal with serious business issues is one good route. Part-time projects and consulting is another.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
says. “It’s not only helped me in my campaign, but it’s also helped me in my work in homeland security and national defense. The title of ‘Harvard MBA’ doesn’t win many votes, but the problem-solving ability does.” Taylor says his HBS training View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
when people hear the story, when they hear there’s a sustainability benefit, when they hear there are potato genes in our potato, we get a positive reaction.” The company has seen that positive reaction in practice: The 8-million-pound... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
planning and implementation for a 15-year, $40 billion initiative with the goal of creating sustainable development and economic revitalization for Colombo and its surrounding provinces, population 5.8 million. It’s why he has returned to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Herzlinger worries that the Obama administration may borrow heavily from the Massachusetts model, which she says, as currently constituted, cannot sustain itself due to runaway costs. She cautions, “If you set up a national market, that’s... View Details