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- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
wanted to avoid turning Tweezerman into one more failure in what had been a previous career of multiple entrepreneurial misfires. What if this last and greatest airplane, which had finally begun to fly—and fly high—now crashed and burned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
brought more women into the traditionally male world of mining. When she joined Anglo American, there were few women in leadership positions, while today 22 percent of the company’s managers are female. “It is a business imperative,” she... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
database (see Alumni Navigator) and the gradual transition toward a more robust directory featuring information about alumni similar to that which is collected for student class cards. Richard Decker (AMP 98, 1986) spearheaded the Lifelong Learning Committee to address... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
attended the course. "Having them right there to clarify points and add to the SOS-KDI case was extremely useful for all of use who are dealing with questions of how to move our organizations forward." Turning View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
organizations, Hill turned again to the collective expertise of the global business community. She was supported in her research efforts by project leader Sunand Menon (MBA 2001) and former HBS Executive Fellow Ann Le Cam, both of whom... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
Entrepreneurship was not scaling the foundational teaching upon which the center was built. With his new book, See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success, Warshay is bringing his process to a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
producing 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel a day by 2025. According to Enriquez, who directed HBS’s Life Sciences Project prior to his current role as managing director of Excel Venture Management, algae biofuels were once the darlings of... View Details
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Rhea Acharya | MBA
Rhea Acharya Applied Mathematics Eliot 2025 Cohort 7 Living through this unprecedented period of technological growth has presented us with both ground-breaking solutions and new challenges. As we navigate these unknowns, we must turn to... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
the fundamental causal mechanisms through which our lives have improved," Christensen said. Health Care Takes A Hit At the conference, Christensen looked forward to areas where disruptive technologies could soon or are already taking hold: health care, Microsoft,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
says. “This is just good governance.” Under Cordeiro, the first-ever general manager has been hired for the men’s national team, with a GM coming soon for the women’s national team, which will be defending their title at this year’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
since 1983. By his own rough reckoning, 34,000 printed pages of Class Notes have passed through his hands over 24 years. During that time, the number of Class Notes secretaries — recipients of Keith’s timely deadline reminders — has grown to 850 from View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
missing an opportunity to turn a good business into a great one. Q: You emphasize that it's more important than ever for managers to communicate business strategy and performance goals effectively to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
’95), CEO of Atlas Honda in Karachi, Pakistan, and the new HBS Alumni Association president, when he was on campus for a board meeting. He spoke with passion and eloquence of the School’s growing impact around the globe (see story). In... View Details
Laurence F. Probst, III
Probst turned Electronic Arts from a simple producer of videogames into a bona fide and consistent “hit producer.” With such mega-hits as Madden NFL Football, The Sims, and Harry Potter, Probst has created a sustainable franchise. Under... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
From left: Alexa McCulloch (MBA 1999), president, HBSASC; Jennifer Nash, director, HBS Business and Environment Initiative; Professor Rebecca Henderson; Alan Horn (MBA 1971), chair, Walt Disney Studios; Roland Hwang, managing director,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
on carbon conversion and turning his garage—temporarily—into a laboratory. TB: I ultimately came upon an electrochemical type of process which turned out could be pretty easily prototyped at a very small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
to our detriment. Americans and other Western health-care leaders are often unaware of the many advances in health-care management and delivery that are being made "under the radar" in diverse parts of the world. To further disseminate... View Details
Ernest T. Weir
Having formed National Steel through the consolidation of three small steel firms and a furnace company, Weir managed his enterprise in a somewhat hard-line manner, implementing whatever profit-generating methods he deemed appropriate.... View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
founding of schools around the globe, including the Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE) in Costa Rica; the Philippines' Asian Institute of Management (AIM); the Indian Institute... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna