Free Will - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2009
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Alumni Books

Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times by Scott D. Anthony (MBA ’01) (Harvard Business Press) In today’s economy, executives must slash costs while planting seeds for tomorrow’s growth. Anthony explains how: by pruning your business portfolio to View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Aug 2011
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A Fearless Force for Change

Jennifer Goodman Linn (MBA '99) left a legacy of hope to patients who battle rare cancers. Jennifer Goodman Linn (MBA '99) left a legacy of hope, love, and laughter to those who knew her and to the thousands who have been and will... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Getting Security Right

we don’t acknowledge them, we’re in for trouble. Convergence is the theory that all nations will eventually gravitate toward some form of capitalist, democratic free enterprise. When former State Department... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap

state funding.” Dias Griffin and her husband, Ken Griffin, have made education a cornerstone of their philanthropy for years. Through their eponymous family foundation, they have donated more than $13 million to CHECC. “I benefited from a great View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

this growth is inevitable as the divide between man and machine blurs. Hot Stocks: Investing for Impact and Profit in a Warming World by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Rowman & Littlefield The world is warming, our portfolios will have to adapt,... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

old ones, capacity expansion, and product and process innovation. Ghemawat is the author of a widely cited book, Commitment, as well as seminal articles on the sustainability of competitive advantage. His latest book, Games Businesses Play, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

on an aggressive campaign to increase our profile abroad. The Class of 2001 will be more than one-third international, which is a huge jump. We have also increased fellowship funding by about $2.5 million for next year. In coordination... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

energies to worthwhile causes beyond our jobs and our families. That is what's driving a lot of us to branch out into social and community activities beyond our business life. Jerry Ostrov: My impression is that there is a widely shared belief among us that significant... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Ron Shaich’s Café Society

myself as a quarterback. I try to figure out where the receiver will be before I release the ball. I knew we had a phenomenal opportunity to build a significant brand in Panera Bread, but years of experience also taught me how difficult... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977

others. I view my volunteer efforts as a way to perpetuate the University as a renewable resource that will benefit others for generations to come.” is partner and national director of China for Ernst & Young. Born and raised in Hong... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

we provide free antiretroviral drugs to our 3,000 HIV- positive employees. In South America, we have multimillion-dollar projects to improve goat and cattle breeds, boost honey production, and diversify agricultural output. We work hard... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

back to basics," said Bruce Harreld (MBA '75), SVP of strategy at IBM. "Our goal is to increase the efficiency of organizational systems by creating software that remaps how processes work together." Steven Elterich, president of Fidelity eBusiness, who expects that... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

a lens of profound Christian faith―appropriately so since, in Auth’s view, much of Western art expresses humanity’s search for God. In this beautifully illustrated book, drawn largely from works on display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, you View Details

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

observed that "the automobile has provided the means for people to work collectively and live separately, allowing them to choose where they will live, work, and socialize like no other product does. This independence is a core value in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

1952)—convinced him to delay his application to HBS and hired him for Red Comet, their decorative-ceiling business. “My bosses said, ‘You’ll get in. You will have the background and experience,’” he recalls. “When my mom called to say the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

deferred, delayed, said no to, gotten a little bit of extra help with, avoided, what have you. And as you go through that list, you’re not going to find tons and tons of things. You’re not going to be able to free up, you know, 50 percent... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

Advertising today has to be so entertaining, interesting, and useful that you won’t want to live without it. That’s a fundamentally different premise than the one advertising was founded on: I can pay money and put myself in front of you. I can bore you, I can offend... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

02 Oct 2017
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Radical Generosity for the Real World

likely to be nice, right? And so if you surround yourself with people who are like minded, who are giving, who want to make that a priority in their lives, that will affect you and you will want to give... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details