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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
forward or weighing in. When the choice is right for you, and you know you can have an impact, step up." —Karen Gordon Mills (MBA 1977), Administrator, US Small Business Administration Phyllis Papani Godwin (HRPBA 1949) Photos by Susan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
private companies, the USPS has to have even its best ideas reviewed by regulators and contested by competitors. But inevitably making tough choices about technology to create new services has to be market-driven, in spite of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
to them wherever they are in the world," Rogers notes. Another advantage is that alumni will no longer be limited in their choice of Internet access providers. "Alumni who already have accounts with AOL may choose to keep them, but they... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
invaluable skill. Especially within a startup, you must continually balance different challenges and opportunities and make choices based on your long-term vision and present resources.” Can you finish this sentence? “My HBS experience... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
This consciousness-raising book asks business students, who are usually risk-averse, to look at risk in a new way. It argues that choices they think are “safe” (lucrative jobs taken only for financial gain, service to others deferred... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
almost casual choices made during this crisis have spawned disastrous consequences. Take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for example. When I began covering the companies in early 2008, it was an unquestioned assumption they had grown too... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Optimize for people. Many variables will influence your career choices after HBS—geography, industry, function, company, manager, salary, equity, etc. Sometimes there are correlations between these variables, like high-growth companies... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
believes the key to making better strategic choices in turbulent markets lies in understanding the level of uncertainty faced in a given situation. 20/20 Foresight provides a framework for learning to separate what can be known from what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
"Against the Grain" ends as a cliff-hanger: What should Jim do? The array of ethical choices forms the basis of class discussion in the required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. "Corruption can be defined as paying for a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
are. You can’t hope to project an idealized version of the truth.” The old rules of marketing and advertising still apply, too: “The genius is not in the choice of medium: in the simple idea of using social media to fight social media,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
an unremitting love for company and conversation. Given the choice between being right and being memorable, Schumpeter never hesitated.” Each morning, after the elaborate ritual of dressing himself, Schumpeter would walk the six blocks to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation in 1992,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
infrastructure, and insufficient workforce skills. While government must play a role in addressing these issues, Porter and Rivkin believe that business leaders should set the example by making choices that will build America's ability to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
finally, food is on the agenda like never before.” “The awards are really a dual opportunity. Yes, they help guide people’s choice of restaurants, and it’s a form of peer recognition that is really valued by the community. But in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
businesses and organizations to provide users with a highly personalized selection of goods, services, and information." Employing passwords and aliases to ensure anonymity, individual users supply personal preference and choice... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
hardest part of writing the book? Definitely matching experts and topics. It wasn’t just a matter of choosing people with expertise; it was also finding those who could deliver the information in 600 words and make it readable, fun, and informative. Some of the obvious... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
LR Ripsy Bandourian Risk-taker, investment strategist, go-getter Bandourian Growing up in Armenia during the waning Soviet years, Ripsy Bandourian was well on her way to becoming a medical doctor, like both of her parents and two of her grandparents. But the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bulletin, I have difficulty understanding Debbie Rosenbaum’s “feelings of inadequacy or exclusion” given her obvious history of personal achievement and the clearly diversified class mix. Perhaps her discomfort is generated by the choices... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
and her choice to reunite with the love of her life. —Zibby Owen (MBA 2003) The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson, is a powerful climate novel. It helps one understand better how things might proceed, and somehow it manages... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
preschool, discover F.A.R.T.’s grand plan: a brain modem that can turn kids into well-behaved zombies! This wacky crew has no choice but to find out who’s behind the nefarious organization and save young people the world over. Let’s Be... View Details