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- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
things can run smoothly for as long as possible. It's often a judgment call." Name: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration Courses she teaches: Managing Change (MBA elective); Leading Change and... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
the ways in which they can add depth and meaning to life. Charles Duhigg: I think people are primed to think about habits in their lives all the time. I have a good habit, a bad habit. I want to build a habit of running or eating more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
the tiniest pieces possible.” “Garbage is messy,” Williams told the Times. “But Jessie is someone who doesn’t run away from that type of challenge. She embraces it.” That jibes with Tisch’s own feelings about leading DSNY out of a period... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care
Illustration by Drue Wagner Mike H. M. Teodorescu (DBA 2018) CEO, SurgiBox Dan Brown (DBA 2019) CFO Concept: Founded in the wake of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, SurgiBox’s lead product is a portable operating room that fits into a backpack and View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
representative of what happens when a patient appears in a doctor’s office. “A patient doesn’t tend to walk into your office and announce that they have TB. Instead they might say, ‘I have a cough.’ You as the clinician have to reverse engineer all your teachings and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
and venture capital firm based in Boston, Roe Stamps began to think about succession. “When our VPs became new partners, I told them that someday they would run the company,” says Stamps, whose declaration was probably met with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
running and investing in large companies were doing quite well. But working- and middle-class Americans were struggling, as were many small businesses. The most promising efforts we found to restore shared prosperity were local,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
in the standing and running water on the floor. Along the way, openings on both sides led to well-lit rooms, one of them filled with a big, noisy, dynamo-like shape reminiscent of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. At the tunnel’s end were two... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Reinventing the Future of Business
Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg Rapid technological changes are sweeping across our society—affecting how we do our work, how we run our businesses, and even how we live our lives. HBS has stepped forward to elevate and expand faculty... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
of instructional materials; and lack of electricity and basic infrastructure,” Wolf explains. The model is simple yet compelling: The nonprofit partners with national and local government, and hires and trains local employees. Primary schools are supplied tablets that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Jul 2023
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
teamed up with partner organization ReFood, and Ghose liked the model: repurposing surplus food from restaurants to feed the local community, with hyperlocalized food drives run by local volunteers. He brought the idea home to two friends... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
relished exceptional personal challenges - running in big-city marathons, amateur race car driving, and, as befits a graduate of the Naval Academy, skippering his 58-foot sloop Integrity to victory in the 1991 Bermuda Race. "I lead a full... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
path through the upper ranks of investment banking as well as his success building one of the world’s leading investment funds focused on infrastructure. Today he runs Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), managing a portfolio that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
groups in India, it’s this last detail that is the sweetest: “I observed these young girls, on the periphery of the group, seeing women who are coming together to support each other. Women who are running businesses, women who are saving,... View Details
Keywords: April White