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Sheila Marcelo

money for college. “I was the eighth employee, and I consider that period my general management tour of duty,” says Marcelo, who found enthusiastic mentors at the young company and was soon asked to join the View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services

01 Mar 2008
News

Where Are They Now?

ZALEZNIK: “I don’t think it’s useful for people to worry about the rules of leadership or command. I think the central concept is character and character in the uses of power.” Leadership is best studied from the inside out, declares... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; retirement; leisure; writing; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 2007
News

Looking back; looking forward

with power in practice, a remarkable campus, and an alumni community more than 70,000 strong. Equally important, it’s a chance to help set the agenda for management education and research for the next century, and for tomorrow’s business... View Details

Keywords: Jay O. Light; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder value while at the same time... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2006
News

Getting on Board

come to them,” notes Susan Stautberg, president of PartnerCom Corporation, which assembles and manages advisory boards. “Before Sarbanes-Oxley and the outcry for better governance, you might have been tapped just because you knew... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management; Management; Management

01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

volumes of goods and people long distances—humanity’s best bet might lie with overweight algae. And staving off the climate apocalypse could be just the beginning. That’s the premise underlying a decadelong joint effort to develop algae... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

Translation? EQ—the hardest leadership skill to build. Many people reading this will be managers of teams or groups. How can they best support these ideas? We did a study when I was at Walmart comparing... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Apr 2001
News

Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Talent: The Best Employee Perk?

“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that win today’s competitive races.... View Details

02 Jan 2014
News

The Power to Change

by Ralph Ranalli Talking about his ambitious plans to create a safer, cleaner type of nuclear power plant, Russell Wilcox says, quite matter-of-factly, that he was "looking for a project that would have an impact on the world." There aren't many View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Nathalie du Preez

management role. I chose Colgate for its global focus (less than 20% of its revenues come from the U.S.), its strong presence in emerging markets, its fundamental brand management training, and its... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

01 Dec 2007
News

Rediscovering America

for more companies to practice “values-based capitalism.” Could you cite any examples? There is a growing number of well-run, profitable companies that have values at the center of their management strategy. One outstanding example is... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Mar 2017
News

HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age

their organizations. The second platform, HBX Live, is a virtual classroom housed in a Boston television studio where up to 60 people are engaged in real-time case discussions. The discussion leader — typically an HBS faculty member —... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Making Finance Personal

company’s culture of innovation that has seen Intuit expand into small-business and web-based products. The key to entrepreneurship and innovation, says Cook, a 1996 recipient of the School’s Alumni Achievement Award, is “solving the problem that other View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

Editor's note: Check out the crowd at a concert, a movie, a school play, a beach—heck, even a funeral—and you'll likely see several people sneaking prolonged peeks at their smartphones. They just can't help themselves. Ringtones and... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

hospitals and governments. Separately, Medtronic is using its remote monitoring capabilities to track people with coronavirus in their homes. (Full disclosure: I am a former chair and CEO of Medtronic). Adam Schechter, LabCorp CEO, and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

noticed about your management style that I, wonder if you're, you're cognizant of. I'm sure you are. But a couple anecdotal examples here: Angela Merkel, you liked her because she served her own guests coffee. You know, you were... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

50 Years & Counting

are less likely to hire—women as leaders. Bazerman and his colleagues believe this implicit form of bias is still prevalent among managers and executives. And because people aren't even aware they're... View Details