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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Critics harped that an "elephant" like IBM couldn't dance the quick steps of the new technology. A search was under way for a new CEO, but few—including Lou Gerstner himself—were eager to take on the very public, very risky assignment of... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
motivated to search for novel information and anticipate alternative perspectives, leading to better decision making, problem solving and innovation. Time and again, analysis confirms this improves the bottom line of companies. “Working... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
rate than the 300 percent annual growth it saw from 2002 to 2007. (Redbox lets would-be renters search locations and reserve titles online.) With a background in high-growth start-ups, Kaplan is already involved in a number of new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
conducted, and developing platforms to promote digital reading. “It’s stunning that we still read so much on paper,” said Ballmer. In addition, the company will push forward with major efforts to build its online search and advertising... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Strategic Networking
career information by other HBS graduates. So what’s the best way to leverage the power of those connections? The answer really depends on your objectives, says Christine Sullivan, senior program manager of Alumni Career Services. In any job View Details
Keywords: Networking
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job by Robert S. Gardella (Harvard Business School Press) As fast as the business world is changing, so too are the techniques for searching for the right job. Yet regardless of the... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
found out that there was no resource. “I started putting a list together of all the summer programs I read about and searched for, and it became a guide, a printed guide. So, for two years, I was a volunteer who did this on the side,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
that I could invest the rest of my career in helping people.” To that end, Downing started taking science classes three years ago. Then, while searching for a medical school that would accept a mid-career student, he stumbled upon a new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Japan Research Center Names New Executive Director
practice group and oversaw all executive searches in the financial sector. In addition, he managed a corporate governance practice group. Prior to Egon Zehnder, Sato worked for fifteen years in the Tokyo and London offices of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
search firm Egon Zehnder, Mueller-Maerki continued acquiring clocks, although at a certain point his focus shifted from collecting the objects themselves (of which he now owns about 80) to amassing books and other publications that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
online digital world, consumers are searching for ways to reclaim these values in many of the industries I’ve studied. What advice would you offer to an endangered industry? If you foresee your core technology is reaching the end of its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
Career Services, previewed the new service, which will feature the ability to search jobs by industry, function, geographic region, salary range, keyword, and type of position. Modeled after the Job Bank built for MBA students in 2002,... View Details
- 18 Dec 2020
- News
Progress Update on Racial Equity Plan
This week, HBS offered a progress update on its Racial Equity Plan—a seven-part action plan developed by the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and released in September. In the past three months, the School’s progress has included launching a View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
New Career Tools for Alumni
submit. “We’re pleased with the way the database expands the value proposition to alumni and employers,” says Christine Sullivan, director of Alumni Career & Professional Development. The Hub also offers alumni the ability to search for a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
need. This is often the biggest weakness in entrepreneurship. Many people, especially tech people, lead with a solution in search of a problem. I also often see entrepreneurs leap from the see stage to the scale stage. They layer lots of... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
University When the head of the presidential search committee for Robert Morris University (RMU) came across Chris Howard’s résumé, he thought the search firm was testing him. Howard was a sitting college... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
leader to shoulder blame rather than search for excuses. Everything that happens is ultimately the leader’s responsibility anyway, and promptly taking ownership of a difficult situation means that you can lead your team out of it that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
companies strengthening themselves across several media activities. Thus Disney, which began as an entertainment provider before adding network and cable television companies, now owns a 43 percent stake in Infoseek, the Internet search... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
hoped that one day people might say to his children, “ ‘Your dad helped change my life.’ I’m searching for that.” An interdisciplinary Harvard initiative, the ALI began to take shape in 2007, thanks to Kanter and HBS professors Nitin... View Details