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- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
required; to be able to help people prioritize. I’m not an operator; I’m a business person, but [my job is] getting the Navy Seal leadership to decide what’s important—what they can trade off—and identifying risk and helping them View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the program—which seeks to turn best practice... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
people to help you in areas, work with resource providers, and so forth. So, there’s a natural dovetailing between HBS’s focus on general management and entrepreneurship. Even if students are not going to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
that stretch, by itself, is not a useful management concept. Nishant Miglani pointed out that "as a complement to stretch, GE also had this notion of the 'boundaryless organization' ..." Matthew Tuttle suggested that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
becoming a Fortune 500 CEO. “I had very high aspirations,” says Beilharz, who was, by 1988, in top management at MetroCel, a major player in the then-budding cellular industry. “I was enthralled with my career, with the money, and with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; ecotourism; Management; Management; Management; Management; Management; Management
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
Dishonesty and Its Organizational Implications, she discussed several laboratory and field experiments meant to uncover factors that lead people to make unethical choices. "We seem to face this type of conflict at any given moment... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A model of service
says. "The soup kitchen is a business. I managed more than 50 people, oversaw all of our marketing efforts, and maintained relationships with grant-making organizations," says Garrett, who stepped down in 2013 from her role as director of... 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
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
'75)Mercer Management Consulting As if that wasn't enough, he asserted that information, in part because of these characteristics, is diffusive and hard to contain, especially that containing high proprietary value. Any number of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
that allows them to coexist with colleagues from vastly different backgrounds.” Mary Moses (MBA ’03) is an American who works for VASC, a state-owned Vietnamese telecom and media company. “The people who View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Student-Profile
Patrick Ferguson
students. “HBS sits at the intersection of academic management research and the business world,” he explains. “I’m constantly inspired to look into new research angles by the brilliant people I run into on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
Grantham: For this investor and environmental advocate, “the rather burdensome thought is that people won’t listen to environmentalists, but they will sometimes listen to people like me.” Jeremy Grantham... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
they still made many classic mistakes. What’s been the biggest challenge? “Top management ineptitude,” Coup responds, barely breaking a smile. “Sometimes we go into things faster than other people and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
How will my children learn via Zoom? We interviewed 10 CEOs in July about how they are managing the unprecedented stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then checked in with them again at the end of 2020. The interviewees hail from... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
I saw in studying winning streaks and losing streaks in sports as well as businesses and nations, it’s easy to appear united when your team is winning. Divisiveness tends to characterize losing streaks, in which people try to hold on to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
cosponsored by HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School. Her winning idea? Global Citizen Year, a nonprofit social enterprise that prepares young people for the challenges of a global economy. Global Citizen Year fellows spend a “bridge” year... View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
day came at lunch with the screening of a ten-minute film tribute — The Sum of Our Own Greatness — to the small army of service workers who keep the campus humming 24/7, 365 days a year. The film presented a parade of still photos of HBS View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Leadership and Diversity at HBS
background, experience, and ethnicity, but I was also trying to manage a global partner from an unfamiliar region (in my case, China). It is experiences like this that have changed the way I view leadership and have prepared me to... View Details