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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Mills considers the complexities of a school administrator’s job, she says it’s not enough to be just a great manager or instructional leader. “You have to be able to marry the two because you can’t have one without the other and truly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
Narayanan, the Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Accounting and Management Unit. Called the Balanced Scorecard Game, the complex simulation was the result of intensive research, development, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Hobbies Golf, skiing, reading Recommended Reading The Future of Life, by E.O. Wilson "Wilson is lyrical in his expression of some very complex ideas concerning biodiversity and the fate of life on Earth." Helping to lead a revolution of... View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
where we've reached more than 3 1/2 million people alone. “When you look at the solutions that are being brought to bear in solving the water crisis, there are many. And we need to have many different solutions with such a complex issue... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
navigate your company’s complex political environment); and manage a team (forge a high-performing “we” out of all the “I”s who report to you). The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus
with this last topic, the issues have become so complex that no one in academia has been able to keep up with them," he comments. "It will be a luxury to spend more time studying this area." Shapiro will continue to teach in HBS executive... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
cost advantage of China might not be large enough to bother—and that’s before taking into account the added expense, time, and complexity of logistics,” says Sirkin. View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
optimistic. One leaves this book with many assumptions blasted away, a clear understanding of the complex forces that roil Islam, and, at least for this reader, hope that this civilization can continue as a force for good in the world. View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Harvard University is ripe with new advances in science and technology. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a complex... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
learned about the complexities of this private/public partnership six months before it opened. Course participant Matt Eisen (MBA 2016) notes that the IFC gave him a sense of the business context and the opportunities in the region.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
President’s leadership style. His recollections are engaging and illuminating for the perspective they offer on LBJ and his complex legacy. There are also useful insights on negotiation and management from Valenti’s tenure as head of the... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Kemin Personal Care ramps up production, Levy has had ample opportunity to put her MBA skills to work. “HBS prepares people to think analytically, and about the details of the business, but it also teaches us to look at the broader picture,” she says. “The beauty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
firm that's providing a new model of entrepreneurship. "More generally, crowdsourcing has now been successfully applied in a range of settings, from designing T-shirts to creating complex software products and solving View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
groups and class discussions revolved around learning how to think about complex issues." On the other hand, he believes, the news media have placed too much emphasis on "celebrity CEOs" in recent years. "Chief executives are too often... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
needed for the most important problems of our time.” The opioid epidemic is devastating our country and undermining our economic competitiveness, from the streets to the C-suites. It is a scourge whose complexities span the geopolitical... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
for managing a complex organization. Where can we find such a person?” It turns out that an HBS graduate filled the bill. Brock Reeve (MBA ’88), a nonscientist, was hired in 2006 as HSCI’s executive director in large measure because of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Allston Plan’s First Building
A 500,000-square-foot science complex will be the first building of Harvard University’s new Allston campus. The complex, which will house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and a number of cross-departmental science initiatives, will be... View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- News
On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)
When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly complex retail environment. DePree joined Nordstrom in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
no longer be a liability. The college also solves a second problem. Many directors work full-time as CEOs or academics, and many serve on multiple boards, leaving little time for them to master the complexities of the businesses they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Allston to Get Harvard Museum
A new Harvard art museum will join the University’s planned life-sciences complex on Western Avenue across from HBS — the first two structures in Harvard’s long-range expansion plan in Allston. University officials announced the selection... View Details