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- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
feet, and move on to the next one. “With the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity, we are one of the 51 manufacturing extension partnership centers across the country to help small and medium manufacturers. We do a little bit of advocacy, just reminding... View Details
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
money left over for personal spending. But does that make their decision any less significant? It doesn’t feel right to quantify it that way. What do you think? Do you ever seriously consider downsizing your... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
a liberal arts degree at night while working in the family heating and cooling business. Initially the idea of a Harvard education seemed both unnecessary and far-fetched to Ferrara, but the more he learned about HBS, the more intrigued he became. “The program was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Everyone benefited from what was a very simple idea.” Wagner doubts that Levitt would have much patience for the froth of marketing advice available today: “When people write entire books about one tiny idea — he’d already done it, in a chapter. He would have cut View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election but the “employer doesn’t have the right to force one.” The reality is that the only thing companies can “force” is the union’s hand. Does the union truly represent a majority of employees, or are authorization cards obtained... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
Try something else. But really open your eyes. Xavier Paternot (MBA 2002): Xavier Paternot, 2002. Make career decisions based on your, on your guts and your, and your heart, and not on- on your head. Hang Li (MBA 2006): Hang Li, MBA,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Chairman, The Carlyle Group Former Chairman & CEO, IBM Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1963 B.S., Engineering LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "HBS was superb at reminding us that asking the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
decision to conduct Prieto didn’t pursue executive life to disown music. He’s just inquisitive by nature. “I’m still propelled more today by curiosity than anything else,” he says. It’s a family trait. His father graduated from MIT with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
discriminatory practices engaged in by one's organization. "Far too many of us, having achieved a certain level, will not reach out to help others," Graves declared. To be truly successful, he said, "you will have to stand up for what's View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
four of these teams are then aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Market day also means it’s a busy day for Gregoria Alvarez Reyes, whose store sits on an adjacent corner, right in the path of foot traffic. For the past 11 years, Reyes has owned and operated Farmacia Fradoni in this northwest section of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company would wait for the test results. “We’ve always followed a ‘Do what’s right and take your lumps’ approach to business. We had to execute the recall.” READY TO GO: A stringent quality-process at the company’s packaging Plymouth,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
yes.” Pasricha, who thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living, gave the 80 attendees a set of simple coping strategies to remain positive, find rest, and let go of the idea of rushing back to whatever life was before everything changed. “The corporate speak... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors found four distinct types of highly successful “business builder” personalities―the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader, and the Captain―and analyze how each type... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
I wanted to be president of a $500 million business, and I achieved that,” he says. “When I left at age 54, there was no great epiphany, although the fact that we sold our subsidiary businesses made it financially easier for me to ‘retire,’ in the old terminology.”... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
use their best elements in a hybrid “third way.” He demonstrates how the tools and principles of organizational economics can be used to build an innovation infrastructure with the right incentives and time horizons for investments. The... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
whether you are doing the right thing. Your decisions are your legacy.” One of Fisher’s favorite analogies is that being in business is like rowing crew. “When the team pulls together, and everybody is at... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
that Susan had inoperable brain cancer. She was given three years to live. Nothing had prepared Sontag for the experience of being a caregiver to a terminal oncology patient and making the life-or-death decisions he and his wife faced,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
before! We sold out of our holiday sets for the season right after Cyber Monday (which was a good problem), but we’re continuing to experiment with how to better predict demand.” What’s a typical workday like (or is there really no such... View Details