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- 01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Research Online
especially when their employees are naturally proactive, according to a forthcoming article in the Academy of Management Journal by Associate Professor Francesca Gino and colleagues. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6494.html. Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
insulated, eco-friendly composite tile, enabling electrical interconnection and assembly with other tiles via “plug & play” connectors. Crossover Energy is an energy services company, helping organizations reduce their energy costs and... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
might increase costs by 3–4 percent of world GDP, but the costs of inaction are far greater. She noted that, according to the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment, climate change could cost the US 10 percent of its GDP by the end of the century. Henderson emphasized... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
and analytics than liberal arts when you don’t speak the language,” observes Ma. Her hard work and focus paid off: She was accepted at MIT and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. “I believe in what the School is trying to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
Immelt Photo courtesy General Electric Just a year after taking the helm of General Electric, Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82) addressed a capacity crowd in Burden... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
history. The excitement traditionally generated by these annual events was further heightened this year as participants gathered in Hong Kong, the gateway city to China, which on July 1 will revert from British rule to Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
visionaries shared an ability to anticipate the significant shifts in consumer needs and desires being generated by changing times and mores. Koehn draws from diaries, correspondence, interviews, and official business records to tell the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
outside counsel do so at their companies’ peril. To avoid the kinds of recent blunders that have brought scandal and financial disaster to some of the country’s best-known corporations, Bagley believes that general managers need to raise... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and opportunities that... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
community has failed,” she said. “If we want to solve climate change, we can. It's completely plausible to change. We have the technology to fix this problem. Electric and autonomous vehicles and ride sharing are coming fast. Agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
which he started in 2010, is now the largest energy investor in Nigeria, producing more than 18 percent of the country’s power through Transcorp Power, its investee company. “It is helping hospitals; it’s helping homes; it’s helping... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
Few student exploits over the summer could match the power lunch enjoyed by Reginald Sanders (HBS '02), who broke bread and talked business with Jack Welch, the legendary force behind General Electric.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
WHITEHEAD (with moderator George):Because "the world cries out for leadership," HBS students must lead not just in their companies but in their lives. John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ ’47), one of HBS’s most distinguished graduates, is a View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
have responded so swiftly and effectively without the HBS Fund. JONES: Some alumni wonder why the School needs their HBS Fund gifts each year. We spend a lot of our volunteer time educating alumni about the endowment. While HBS has been fortunate to receive View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
generates more than $1 billion annually in ad revenues. That puts the Internet ahead of two long-established media sectors, network radio and billboards. In a new working paper titled "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry"... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Belsky has compiled their most powerful (and often counterintuitive) practices, such as generating ideas in moderation, reducing all projects to just three main components, encouraging fighting within your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
to confront and resolve it, Ramanna says. Everyone who faces it feels some degree of helplessness. And Jim's helplessness was juxtaposed with the fact that, for all his relative youth and inexperience, he had been put into a position of remarkable View Details
- 07 May 2019
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How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
$42 million, and grew from there. For her part, Hoel Perkins joined Menlo Ventures in 1994 and became the youngest general partner in the firm’s history. Since then she has founded the Perkins Fund, as well as Project Glimmer and the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
that made me wonder if we’re in the early stages of a cultural shift to downsizing, minimalism, and generally questioning if personal wealth, public success, and material goods lead to lasting happiness. In the July-August issue of HBR,... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
2009), the company's cofounder and CEO. The device, which is powered by an electric motor, is highly customizable across a variety of medical, animal, agricultural, and cosmetic applications. One major... View Details