by Robert Eccles - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2002
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Alumni Bookshelf

The Trusted Leader by Robert M. Galford (MBA '76) and Anne Seibold Drapeau (Free Press) In their new book, The Trusted Leader: Bringing Out the Best in Your People and Your Company, authors Galford and... View Details

19 May 2020
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Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

passed by Congress as part of ongoing pandemic relief efforts. HBS Senior Lecturer emeritus Steven Rogers HBS Senior Lecturer emeritus Steven Rogers “They talked about specific tips for surviving the pandemic,” says Jacqueline Adams (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

of their own significant involvement with those programs. Robert Haas (MBA '68) of Levi Strauss: ending racial discrimination in the community is a business imperative. (photograph by Jamie Tanaka) View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

governance and management and citing examples of executives' tendency to avoid reality when times get tough. Maritime Piracy by Robert Haywood (MBA 1977, DBA 1979) and Roberta Spivak (Routledge) After... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2003
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South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

and sales management, spoke on the subject “Specialties vs. Commodities: It’s Not All about the Price.” He is pictured with Philadelphia Club chairman V.J. Pappas (MBA ’76, at left) and Robert Bristol Collins (MBA ’91). Health Industry... View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2007
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In Brief

Q&A with Daniel Vasella. Initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a major pharmaceutical company, Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) has set a new standard for innovation as CEO of Novartis. The Winning Season. Last year, St.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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A Fine Collection

for its Depression-era pieces, also includes prints by artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol; it is said by experts to be among the... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Of Dugouts and Sweatshops

In 1993, as President Clinton's newly sworn-in Secretary of Labor, Robert B. Reich had hoped his first formal public policy decision would be a veritable home run. Instead, he found himself dealing with what appeared to be a no-win... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2000
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Stevenson Named Director of External Relations

study at the School when he redefined entrepreneurship as a process, not a personal attribute. "I am fascinated by how all companies, big and small, are recognizing the need to initiate entrepreneurial action," he comments. "In this big,... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2007
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New HBS, KSG Joint Degree

recently endorsed by the faculties of both schools and approved by the Harvard Corporation, will admit its first students in the fall of 2008. Upon graduation, they will earn degrees from both schools.... View Details

Keywords: Administrative and Support Services; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; Management

23 May 2019
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Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991

forces to lie about who they were,” he says. “I could not reconcile that difference.” By allowing gay people to serve openly, he invited a more diverse group of Americans to serve their country. The ripple effect can be seen in a greater... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go

HBS associate professor Robert Kennedy and LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero interview customers of BancoSol at a market in La Paz. The bank specializes in microloans and has the second-largest number of customers of any If you're... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

AIR AND SPACE: GLF participants enjoyed cocktails and dinner at the popular Washington museum. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANUTA OTFINOWSKI There has never been a time when there have been as many challenges facing this country as there are now, nor... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference

which featured a number of HBS professors and alumni practitioners as panelists and speakers, drew a large and enthusiastic group of attendees. After welcoming remarks by the conference chair, RDA Healthcare Consulting president View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Feb 2001
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Books

Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts, by Richard Leifer, Christopher M. McDermott, Gina Colarelli O'Connor, Lois S. Peters, Mark Rice, and Robert W. Veryzer, is a groundbreaking... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

23 May 2018
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Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003

Star 2003 Joins General Electric’s Corporate Initiatives Group 2006 Named VP, University of Oklahoma 2009 Named President, Hampden-Sydney College 2010 Coauthors Money Makers: Inside the New World of Finance and Business 2016 Named President, View Details