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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Jeff Norton “Popular culture can give the world a shared set of experiences, a starting point. I want to produce someone’s favorite movie.” Question He Asks Strangers Everywhere: What is your favorite movie? Grew Up: Burlington, Ontario... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
cultures and languages. When Japanese companies send their managers overseas, however, they have to face completely different cultures and languages. Other Asian View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
in different sorts of organizational cultures and situations produced many interesting insights and observations — and some disagreements — about how to handle the Parson matter. Panelists’ opinions ranged from “I’d promote this guy in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
various cultural traditions and the challenges faced when a company from another tradition enters the market. The complexities of such research start with language, she notes, recalling a visit to a Chinese... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
now has 140 employees and forecasted revenues of $125 million in 2009. Behind those figures, however, is the story of a company that has survived more than one brush with the void by reinventing itself through continuous, deep-seated... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
people resist change, show how passive aversion to cultural problems affects company performance, and provide an actionable framework for transforming corporate culture. View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), CEO of Zensar Technologies, is cultivating a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies to ensure its 7,000 associates help customers achieve their business needs. At the core of the India-based IT View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
What do thirty second-year MBAs know about automotive technology? When it comes to communications and infotainment systems, more than you might think. That’s why Ford Motor Company executive vice president Mark Fields (MBA ’89) welcomed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo courtesy of Cultured Beef) Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
Morgan Stanley and after launching an adventure-tour start-up, Ransom cofounded Wildfire, a social media marketing company acquired last year by Google for a reported $350 million. Discussing her thoughts on leadership and the View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking about is how a company can create a culture where an employee feels comfortable telling a boss, “Oh, I just observed that no one is wearing a helmet in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Slam Dunk
the 17 million American males who play basketball and have access to the Net -- you know, the electronic one. As its slogan suggests, the company is serious about its game: "If basketball is your religion, HoopsTV.com is your church."... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes to the foodmaker from... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
“alliance,” not a merger), he is the only person ever to simultaneously head two Fortune 500 companies. This “alliance” has brought together two companies that maintain their substantially different cultures... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
advisory that the negative representations of people or culture “were wrong then and are wrong now.” One of the most important outcomes of the exercise, Cohen says, was that it created an opening for the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and forcing Japan’s button-down business culture to change. “My real... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
about does it make people happier, more successful? Does it make companies have greater retention, better recruiting? We need to get to the evidence in order to actually change the culture around this, to... View Details