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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
athletes. That’s crazy if you’re truly trying to represent 50 percent of the population. One of the biggest compliments is when little boys ask me for my autograph. They respect and look up to me—hopefully that will change their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
was selected as one of the first faculty team members to teach in the new International Senior Managers Program (ISMP), an eight-week Executive Education course that was offered by the School in Vevey until 1983. “It was a remarkable... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
Early every Tuesday morning, Karen Gordon Mills leaves her house in Brunswick, Maine, and embarks on her weekly commute to Manhattan. She spends the next several days immersed in her work as managing director of a new private-equity firm,... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
alumni by immersing them back into the HBS case study experience before they met up with the student management teams. One of the major concerns raised in BlackRock acquiring MLIM—in a deal that would give... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
chains, and speeding communications. The result: "People can spend more time thinking up new products and servicing customers, and less time checking boxes." To get there, most firms must be willing to engage in radical change and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
Summing Up Are We Getting More Sensible About Management Incentives? Respondents to this month's column suggest ways of fixing or selectively using various methods of providing incentives to management. They... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
Sloan School of Management, Harvard Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
actually booking and get a commission of that?” Q: You call the case “managing online reviews.” As I read it, I thought the notion of managing online reviews seems to be counter to the notion of providing unbiased information. Yet you do... View Details
- Portrait Project
Randolph Rodrigues
I tread along in the footsteps of those who have accomplished so much with so little... My father was a shepherd for the first decade of his life until a teacher offered to enroll him in school. My mother grew up with her grandmother who... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
believe all humans were created equal, regardless of the many outwardly things that can make us look and seem different. As a new mom to a precious baby boy, being a feminist has become even more important to me. I want to raise a compassionate, joyful boy who grows... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
was also considered the least significant in Chinese culture. My mother told me that a childless neighbor asked to take me as her own when I was a baby, yet my mother would never give up any of her children. My gender and harsh childhood... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1
optimize your time and choose an effective event format? Is a Company Presentation right for us? At HBS, Company Presentations are held either off-campus at a local hotel or restaurant or on-campus in a classroom. Our classrooms seat up... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis with Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019)
manage through the pandemic, Furuseth tapped into lessons learned at HBS and led his team in setting up war rooms before Norway went into lockdown. It was these strategic conversations that allowed the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
iStock SUMMING UP Is 100 Percent the ‘Magic Percent’ of Rebel Talent Every Organization Needs? How much “rebel talent” is a necessary minimum? How much is too much? And how should it be deployed, especially when it comes to management?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
difficult question, How are we going to make good on those promises? Pensions are a costly legacy for many companies. Photo: iStockPhoto The question is particularly urgent now, says Viceira, who teaches in the area of investment View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
bottom-line value is extracted from the key dimensions of implementing sense and respond strategies," says Nolan, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology, who is a frequent collaborator with Bradley, the William... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
Boston. Elberse is remaining mum on celebrities planning to attend the next session in order to protect their privacy. Participants sign up to learn strategies for launching creative products, managing... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor concessions. Manufacturers pit dealers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower Retrofitting buildings in inner cities is just one element of BlocPower’s groundbreaking sustainability strategy. In this episode of Climate Stories, BlocPower’s General Manager Keith... View Details