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- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
like the ones her former teammates had experienced, she needed to understand the problems. In 2016, she quit her accounting job and moved to Bolivia to work as a teacher for A Ganar, a youth-workforce-development program that uses soccer and other View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
a market that was impacted just as hard but received less assistance.” Camino is also intent on expanding education opportunities for borrowers. With an extensive library of bilingual content and video workshops on topics ranging from digitizing business View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
the CEO, and ideally I become the COO over the course of the process if I hire the right director. And what I mean by that is the producer starts out with the original idea, puts together the whole team, so it starts out with the idea, in... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith on Shark Tank (photos by ABC) How did you come up with the idea for Zorpads? Sierra Smith: “We started Zorpads as part of a school project for FIELD 3 (which apparently no longer exists as required curriculum!). Our View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
and - much as in word processing - efficiently, with minimal keystrokes." Bricklin made good use of the School's computer resources as he struggled to germinate the seed that would grow into today's ubiquitous spreadsheet, and he found... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
success and failure include lessons on funding, team development, strategy, performance, and allocation. Some large funds do not survive their founders, and large sums are reallocated to a broader selection of managers. Seides outlines... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also considered how... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
done, but we retain U.S. production. That flexibility and one-stop shopping is a key to attracting business.” For manufacturing operations conducted in China, CGM has experienced on-site teams that are well-versed in Chinese culture,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be established to design the structures, systems, and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
initiative of the club, connecting alumni to each other and to the communities it serves. Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998) Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998) “We deliver expert goodness,” says HBSCP executive director Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998). “Our View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
the research has been far slower than it should be.” Van Etten is committed to improving the process on the business and management side. He is promoting the concept of “team science” and trying to increase the sharing of data and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
demonstrating both the breadth and depth of the desire for change, as well as the tremendous frustration that has been building up over a long period of time.” In her role as senior associate dean for Culture and Community, Hammond is a member of the School’s... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
disease who was in very rough shape, with little to no hope and less than two years left. And so, over the course of a year, Dr. Yu and his team developed a therapeutic for this little girl, dosed her in January of 2018, and by that time... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
speech, standing on the stage. So I've come a long way from that, obviously. But on the flip side, I think what the book and what this process of writing, it really helped me to work through, was that so many of the gifts that I had come... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of yesterday, we have over 8,000... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
leap that we’d hoped for, and it will still keep us far ahead of our competition. It’s the best-selling airplane of all time during the preproduction phase. And we learned a lot of things that we won’t do next time. Do some of those lessons involve overseeing the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
home-care medical team would be nearby. On a Monday afternoon draped in mid-October grays, Dr. Komei Umeda and a nurse make the 20-minute drive from the clinic in Tokyo’s western Setagaya ward. They walk up the stone path, under a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Mosul. We supported the infantry soldiers who were securing the smaller towns on the roads leading to Baghdad from Kuwait. I didn’t get to fly, but I was given a leadership role. There was a lot of gratification in knowing that I was able to motivate people and get the... View Details