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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
member. Only HBS could be flexible enough for such a thing to happen! Maybe it was possible because we thought of ourselves more as pragmatic experimenters than as academics. Our strength at HBS is that we look at the world as it comes at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
concludes Moss, "we hope to address the students' need for efficiency in gathering information through better access to the wealth of resources at HBS. We'll also be able to offer students more flexibility in their job searches. In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
led in the development of the i-lab, which will also serve as a community resource for residents of the surrounding Allston neighborhood. Curriculum innovation for second-year MBAs brings the introduction of the quarter system, which gives faculty more View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Dodgers will give us the capability and flexibility to build related businesses and programming," Carey says. The sports franchise, he elaborates, will furnish the stimulus and content for derivative ventures such as TV stations, a cable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
done, but we retain U.S. production. That flexibility and one-stop shopping is a key to attracting business.” For manufacturing operations conducted in China, CGM has experienced on-site teams that are well-versed in Chinese culture,... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
education at that point. There were certainly more lucrative offers to consider, a return to McKinsey among them, but Singer opted instead for a part-time position with a kids’ online storytelling startup that gave him the mobility and View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
HBS classroom experience and use HBS Online’s platform, giving the participants flexibility to fit the weekly coursework into their schedules. Those who take all four courses will earn a certificate of completion from HBS/HGSE. “We have... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
pursue the opportunities available to her. I recently had dinner with the se-nior vice president of human resources at a large Fortune 500 company. He said, “Everything that the women employees want are things that I want, too, in View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
be flexible in, a complex and evolving competitive environment. They need decisiveness—the ability to act with appropriate urgency and scale on key business issues. And, most importantly, global leaders need to be extremely good at... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
says. “It was a fun, dynamic way to help evolve Utah, which Forbes Magazine has ranked first on their Best State for Business list six times in the last seven years.” Frey left the government role to be an angel investor, allowing him more View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
requirements with life obligations and to persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Telling the stories of people at companies like JetBlue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the authors discuss new twists on traditional View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
it is also a way of addressing men’s (and Gen Y’s) growing hopes for flexibility and innovative ways of working. This book clarifies the business case for gender balance, explores what men have to gain, and provides the basic knowledge to... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
now provides nearly three-quarters of the flexible funding available to principals in the Palo Alto school district. “Most of the band members either have or had kids in Palo Alto schools, so that’s a huge motivator,” says Scheel. “But... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
own advisory firm. We had this idea that the industry over time was getting to be more flexible on low fares. One of the first manifestations of this was the appearance of full plane load charters. You could sell a trip to Cancun and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Commit deeply to the ideal of entrepreneurship first, and only then to a particular business model or product. That combination of commitment and flexibility can help founders react nimbly to market feedback, abandoning products and... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
roles do each of you fill within the organization? MGA: “My official title is Secretary and Treasurer, but we are small enough to remain flexible and fill whatever role is needed at the time. Austin still jumps in to teach me how to be... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
siblings, that makes this even harder. Some sort of childcare solution is necessary. If employers could be flexible with an employee’s scheduling, that would enable the parent to support their kids’ education, particularly when they’re... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
this decade, it is clear that the industry thrives on its extraordinary flexibility and ability to take risks. The recent actions of private-equity groups that are likely to have the broadest societal impact were initially fraught with... View Details