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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1 p.m. tour, including the new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
it’s not really clear what you bring to the table, and that’s a much more difficult sell. The benefits to the host country are far more palatable if you set up manufacturing operations from there because that immediately generates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
brought more women into the traditionally male world of mining. When she joined Anglo American, there were few women in leadership positions, while today 22 percent of the company’s managers are female. “It is a business imperative,” she... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
managers are prepared to work with interim authorities to minimise further suffering. Formerly the skilled ‘permanent government’ feared elections as likely to bring fundamentalists to power. Now they increasingly support immediate and... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
(MBA 1986) said, “Pokemon GO will be the dawn of a new generation of Augmented Reality startups” and classmate David Kenny predicted Pokemon GO is “just the beginning of mingling real and virtual worlds.” Meanwhile, Taru Kapoor (MBA 2015)... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and test new product possibilities.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
market differentiation are now even more important than they have been historically. These truths apply across the manufacturing sector, but general industrial equipment and electronics are two areas where these forces are particularly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer (Harvard Business Review Press) The best managers build a group of employees who have great inner work lives:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
nearly two thousand alumni and guests celebrating MBA or Executive Education reunions. None of these activities would be possible without the generous support and commitment of our HBS volunteers. Volunteerism at HBS takes many forms but... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
questions were generated by that odd ritual, the recruiting event. Her visit was sponsored by MBA Career Services. “You really have to be on your game in a recessionary economy,” Smith cautioned a gathering of about fifty students. “Make... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
develop alongside the company through our Vendor Management program. Since 2007, Manila Water has generated more than 20,000 jobs through these local enterprises. Similarly, Manila Water gives... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Authentic Leadership by William W. (“Bill”) George (MBA ’66) (Jossey-Bass) Drawing from a decade of experience as CEO and chairman of medical technology company Medtronic, George analyzes the causes of the current crisis in corporate leadership and provides guidelines... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
organization, and think strategically,” says Spreng. “It benefited me tremendously throughout my career.” He went on to a 40-year career in high-tech manufacturing and marketing, including serving as a group general View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and paper for designing standard... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
are all experiencing HBS from the other side of the educational equation. Representing the areas of finance (Baldwin) and general management (Barrett, Hightower), they bring a potent mix of skills and... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
In the Hot Seat
Illustration by Ket-le / iStock; photo courtesy of Jeff Immelt Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1 The makings of a CEO and lessons in leading change Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2 Case studies in crisis management and what it takes to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Harper) A compendium of practical knowledge, trivia, and worldly wisdom for boys of all ages, designed as an informal full-color family scrapbook treasured by generations of one fictional family at their Adirondack... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
Protecting the country’s conservation land while also turning a profit guides the business model at The Lyme Timber Company. David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996), managing director at the timberland investment View Details