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- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
Membership on a corporate or advisory board seems like a natural fit for MBAs with solid managerial skills and career experience. But according to the experts, unless you are a prominent CEO, finding a seat at the boardroom table today... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
trust enhances performance.” She cites two kinds of trust-building interaction among distributed colleagues. “Direct knowledge” is gained from visits to distant collaborators’ work sites, in-person contact with them, and observation of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Chris Lederer, argues that marketers and CEOs urgently need tools to manage vast groups of brands — not as individual elements or collections under one corporate roof but as complex systems that transcend View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). The pair first learned of the VLJ opportunity as second-year students and partnered on a six-month field study with the supervision of former HBS faculty member John Wells to study the efficiencies that Wal-Mart (with one of the largest View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
on a committee in the midst of crafting a national housing policy. And he’s part of a planning group for the city of Kandy, which, in addition to being Mawilmada’s hometown, is a sacred and heavily visited UNESCO World Heritage View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
like investing in sustainability or anything that is an impact fund. So a corporation B, where it’s not just about return on investment, but it’s also about having an impact in our environment, in our community. There’s so much data out... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
It was a great way to end my tenure as board chair,” she observes. In all, Brooks has lived in, worked in, or visited 85 countries; and she is not done yet. “My goal is to hit 100; I would really like to go to Antarctica,” she says. In... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
researchers, practitioners, and the public. Greenwood notes that “on the website you can click on a country and immediately see the probability that a given sector within that country is currently experiencing a bubble . ” For users seeking a longer-term perspective,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change
in the African business community — when so often all you hear about are the problems — was an empowering experience.” For more coverage of this and other student conferences, visit the “Special Reports” section of the HBS Working... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
mechanical, electrical, and acoustics engineers, including one known simply as “The Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as expressed in the company’s motto,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
things like that. And we decided to put both our, let's say, our technology behind it, our financial resources behind it, but also our reputation. And that was risky, because we also owned the biggest Superfund site in the US, which was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Rose, who worked at Morgan for twenty years. “In Leader-ship and Corporate Accountability, the focus will be on the government’s decision to ask JPMorgan to purchase Bear, and the potentially conflicting responsibilities of management.”... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
To develop more effective approaches, he is looking at chemical-manufacturing safety disputes, pollution permit-trading, redevelopment of distressed urban areas, hazardous waste site location problems, and intracorporate negotiation over... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
need to seek medical care, although cultural differences still persist. “One man called us in the middle of the night and said, ‘I need a lady now.’ To him, that was an emergency, to us it wasn’t,” Changavalli laughs. Raju has been a strong backer of View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
visit local attractions. The optional activities include a spice tour, a snorkeling and scuba-diving excursion, and a walking tour of Stone Town that takes us to several museums, a local meat and produce market, and the disturbing View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Fall Reunions
corporate governance, to finding a job during difficult economic times. A seminar on “What Really Matters in Life,” organized by the School, was offered to the Classes of 1968 and 1973. Individual classes also arranged their own... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
Five years ago, HBS professor Francis J. Aguilar (now emeritus) and Walter Y. Elisha (MBA '65), then chairman and CEO of Springs Industries, Inc., brought together a dynamic coalition of corporations and business schools to address the... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
for senior executives when his son was a second-year MBA student. Spangler also chaired the Bank of North Carolina during the 1980s, playing a key role in its merger with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation (now Bank of America),... View Details