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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
we’ve made a difference, and that we created models and hope for the world,” explains Roberts. He recently talked about the WWF’s new mission. What’s the rationale behind your new conservation strategy? From a management point of view,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
breakup of nations continues: The economic crisis and the concentration of the knowledge economy in a few cities creates enormous incentives for regions to cast off. They begin by demanding ever-greater control over their taxes and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
ROOFTOP GARDEN: HBS project manager Kevin Ruby surveys Shad Hall’s newly planted perennials. Photographs by Neal Hamberg When it came time to replace the leaky roof on Shad Hall — runners joked of dodging buckets placed on the indoor... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
After ten years of working at McKinsey & Co., where she had become the first female African-American partner, Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89) was ready for a change. "Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
financial world demands steady if not increasing margins. Disruptive innovations often promise lower margins than sustaining innovations. It is extraordinarily difficult for good managers to pursue worse... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. RS: I would also tell the CEO that he or she needs to take a hard and deep look at what’s happening in terms of View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
the context demands it. LAURE WANG Laure Wang (MBA 1997), cofounder and managing director, Asia Alternatives, Atherton, California Earlier in my life, I chose not to apply to Harvard for my undergraduate... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand for... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
level, “is when you actually tilt the playing field by influencing the policymaking or contracting process; this is illegal and unfair.” Abdelal says that for many executives, the challenge is managing a business culture in which it is... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
few of our current initiatives. I will start with our faculty, because that is where almost everything begins at HBS. The mission of this School demands a gifted faculty that is close to practice. We need people who can see business... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
based on actual consumer expenditures. Lean retailing allows department stores, mass merchandisers, and other retail outlets to capitalize on information, allowing them to minimize their exposure to demand uncertainty." Given this new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
waste.” He’s correct. Now more than ever is the time for innovative managers and entrepreneurs to come up with ideas that lead to opportunities to launch new ventures. There is considerable anecdotal evidence that crises can be catalysts... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
skills by flying among Washington’s majestic Cascade Mountains. “We ‘screamed’ between 8,000-foot peaks — often at night and often flying barely 200 feet off the ground,” he recalls. Despite the exhilaration of such demanding maneuvers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
reliable ones? Should we abandon our current business model for an entirely new one? Making bold changes demands bold leadership and, often, massive cultural transformation. Li points to organizations that beat the odds and succeeded at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
away with the guilty feelings that arise from the conflicting demands of career and motherhood. But we can ban the words 'having it all' from the English dictionary." —Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995), COO, Facebook "Measuring progress will... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
enable a company to assemble seamless and reliable real-world products that can thrive in a demanding marketplace. Iansiti's work provides a blueprint for the radical restructuring of corporate research and product development. The... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
LifeQube mobile clinic management Asia-Pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Oliver Segovia, MBA '10 Jennifer Kelly, MBA '10 AVA invitation-only shopping platform Canada HBS Club of Toronto Zaheed Poptia, MBA '06 CardSwap online giftcard... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni and their spouses who are moving into a new career phase). This committee is looking at possible additions to these programs and how best to manage them given existing faculty and space resources. It is particularly interested in... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular authority about the strengths and shortcomings of American View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons