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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
it’s all about empowerment. Says Johnson, now a senior executive at PepsiCo in New York, “Coming to work and doing no harm is very different from coming to work and changing the way people perceive themselves.” —GE Jamie Houghton A Leader... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
and Willy C. Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, together with Vincent Dessain (MBA 1987), executive director of the Europe Research Center, arranged visits to 11 companies across Bavaria. At View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
customers; selecting the right entrepreneurial marketing path; getting from the early stage to the mainstream in the market life cycle; and executing effective sales and marketing strategy in a dynamic environment. Former student Patricia... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
Agency (KBRA). When the firm lured away Moody’s executive Jerome Fons, whom Becker knew, “I contacted him to say this might be a fantastic opportunity to write an exciting case about this topic.” Enter Jules... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
the Iran Center for Management (Tehran). He was part of a team of HBS professors whose advice to the top executives of Nestlé S.A. led to the creation of IMEDE, the European management school in Switzerland. Christensen served on many... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships, funded by a $2 million gift from the worldwide pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
do.” While the search continues for a successor to Dean Kim Clark, Light says the School will move forward on a number of initiatives. For example, in the MBA Program, with which he has long been involved as a professor and administrator,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
director of HBS Alumni Communications, to develop an in-depth, informative, and lively CD-ROM presentation about HBS that can be delivered effectively by alumni volunteers through the club system. Two other significant committee accomplishments are the enhancement of... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
recommend that actually for most people. I'm John Fitzgerald, Class of '97. So my first job out of business school was executive assistant to the CEO of my old company. And really interesting, actually, because when I went in to interview... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
absence of investment opportunities or from indecision among corporate executives. Once such indecision becomes widespread, it can quickly become self-reinforcing. Recent record corporate profits will only exacerbate this situation. If chief View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
rather than managing the business itself, the world of reality. To “fix the game,” five steps are necessary: put customers at the center of everything that firms do, eliminate stock-based executive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
DODI: Backing ventures with products important to women and families. Photo courtesy Monica Dodi A cofounder of MTV Europe, a former executive at Walt Disney/Europe, and former CEO of AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) is... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society
Do corporations do well by doing good? Or do firms that engage in environmental and social initiatives destroy shareholder wealth? George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, has studied how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
come to them,” notes Susan Stautberg, president of PartnerCom Corporation, which assembles and manages advisory boards. “Before Sarbanes-Oxley and the outcry for better governance, you might have been tapped just because you knew influential people. But now the demand... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, explains a powerful truth about the entertainment world: Building a business around blockbuster products—which are expensive to produce and market—is the surest path to long-term success. She reveals why... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
university presses. As volunteer vice chairman of New York–based Do Something, Inc., Dave Mazza is one of many classmates to put his skills to work in the community. Dave combined his career's worth of executive View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Lowell Robinson is a numbers guy, with a twist. "A company's numbers tell a story," says the reflective CFO and executive vice president of the Manhattan-based PRT Group Inc., a high-tech services firm. "When you make that story come... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
McKenna to lead the organization through the turmoil and out the other side. As she and her new executive team assemble in the DC office, touring the space that has been renovated and expanded for their presence, there’s a sense that the... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
expect net labor costs for manufacturing in China and the United States to converge by around 2015. As a result of the changing economics, you’re going to see a lot more products ‘Made in the USA’ over the next five years.” Even now some View Details