communications - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

marketing-services firms, describes the $4 billion spent last year as "chicken feed." What he finds interesting about the Web is the impact it is having on the wider area of communication services. Sorrell, whose business leadership... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Roy K. McCall (MBA 1984) (iUniverse) Huai’an-born Zhou Enlai was contemporary China’s greatest statesman, spymaster, and negotiator. According to McCall, the People’s Republic of China would not exist today without Zhou’s skill as View Details

19 Feb 2021
News

A Playbook for Progress

an unstoppable force.” Dan: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Jacqui Adams (MBA 1978) is CEO of a communication strategy firm that she launched after more than two decades as an Emmy award-winning CBS news correspondent. Bonita... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

other community activities and things that will fill that hole. So I'm Jonson Cox, I was in an AMP program, 157, in 1999. I never expected to cease being a full-time chief exec when I was about 53 or 54. But I did. And then I sort of... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Mr. Start-Up

me is the ability to communicate in a compact, compelling, and concise way. When you’re in a class with super-smart MBAs, and you have maybe 45 seconds to air your point of view, that’s a unique exercise in concentrated analysis and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

in companies like Check Point, one of the first big firewall companies. Rothrock listened to the speech and thought: “Finally.” As in, at last—the government is waking up to a reality that the tech community realized long ago. “The... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

1950s, for example, which was all about getting people to communicate better and express their feelings. We've had the total quality movement and the move toward creating teams and the high-commitment workplace. I see what's going on... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

essentially is the gathering of the global community to discuss climate. I think all those things combined with the experience that humans are having, living in the world with changing weather patterns, with rising sea levels and changing... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

and emissions by half, reduced virgin materials in packaging by a quarter, and eliminated nearly one-fifth of the polluting emissions released by its products. The company also conducts ongoing educational outreach on environmental issues to schools and View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

global in its scope and insisted on ethical business practices—a rare initiative in a sector marred by corruption. In 2009, when the company was acquired by Schneider Electric, Hattangady turned her attention to impact investing and View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

26 May 2022
News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

the HBSANC’s two major annual fundraisers, primarily aimed at supporting its Community Partners programs throughout the Bay Area. The other is the Annual Leadership Dinner. The HBSANC leadership successfully executed a virtual event that... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

of values. The fundamentals I experienced as a new faculty member — the engaged classroom where students actively participate in the learning process, the dedication to ideas that have power in practice, the real sense of community you... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

taught generations of students to be neither victims of analysis paralysis nor prone to promiscuous decision-making. Finally, although there are always unfortunate exceptions, I think on the whole we’ve graduated a community of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2017
News

Life in Lockdown

alumni commitment is really cool,” says Shin, adding that the Lockdown experience creates a tightly knit networking community of alumni interested in the startup sector. To create the 2017 team, “Adam and I started reaching out to people... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

be an early warning sign: I f you can't get insurance in a particular locale, it probably is a place you shouldn't build, right? Should you build on stilts in coastal communities where we know hurricanes are going to get more intense... View Details

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

thinking about your employees, you’re thinking about your communities and you’re thinking about the planet. It’s palpable. You can see how they talk about themselves. You can see how they envision their strategy. You can see how employees... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE), a... View Details

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

women leaders in the HBS alumni community with events, initiatives and social impact scholarships. So when Club President Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16) and Stark were planning events for 2021, they decided to organize something useful for... View Details