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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
thinking about how to improve processes. On a personal level, though, she was a devotee of certain high-end brands of cosmetics that were often difficult to find. That led her to launch an early Web site for cosmetics in 1999 — and then,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
schedules that are complementary to your own. My consulting career demanded a certain amount of travel, so it was important that my wife’s work allowed her to be home each night to take care of our children. Use hindsight to continually... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
seem unlikely soil for agribusiness, the School actually had an ag industry course before I arrived. And Dean David, who himself came from an agribusiness background, wanted to improve the relationships in the value-added food system.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
entrepreneurs succeed. Yet most of us learn them only the hard way. Green shares inside secrets and proven tactics for launching a business, explaining how to locate sure-bet opportunities for improving products, get serious about... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
improve productivity and efficiency in their daily operations, so did HBS faculty find themselves in the position of trying to determine if and how information technology could add value in a curriculum deeply rooted in a tradition of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
brakes, they would sprint to take care of the problem and make sure we were able to continue moving. After four days we reached An Najaf. We were just getting ready to set up our logistical base and begin flying some missions when we were... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
both. William D. Washburn (MBA '34) February 1961 Heard from Pete Foster, who continues to operate very successfully as a brand man for Procter & Gamble's Germasetic Dreft Soap - which is especially for diapers. His wife reports adequate... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
far cry from the $1 billion committed to its most recent fund. The focus initially was on finding companies that had gone beyond the start-up stage-those that needed an infusion of working capital to enable them to continue to grow. "I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
history, it’s likely the crisis would have been avoided, Cook argues. Six years after the government takeover of Fannie and Freddie, taxpayers continue to own and heavily subsidize one of the largest companies in the world. Primed to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
think the so-called rewards they bring are pretty overrated." Rather, Glover finds immense satisfaction in helping clients create safer workplaces and a cleaner environment. "The icing on the cake," she says, "is that we simultaneously get to help businesses View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
improve the hiring and promotion of Black Americans? What role can alumni play to help the School achieve its goal? In developing the task force report, we’ve drawn on the insights and experiences of alumni and will View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
bands of Arab paramilitaries and bandits. Even after destroying hundreds of villages, these janjaweed (armed horseman) continue to prey on those survivors who have fled to refugee camps. For women and girls who venture outside the camps... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
second-year electives are globally focused. And global research continues to increase. Last year, over half the new cases and 40 percent of all faculty research had a global focus and setting. Injecting more international material into... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
changes at the senior management level, Carty says, are the continuing pressures of managers' negotiations with labor unions. "It is critically important to our business to change the conventional confrontational approach to labor... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
continue executing the School's mission successfully: "We have been committed for more than seventy years," he said, "to a model of education in which we bring the world into the classroom - we immerse our students in the context of... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
reversible moves to deepen their understanding of the unfolding game being played, and to build capabilities. They accept ambiguity and some apparent failures in exchange for improved learning and market position. Imperfectionists succeed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
industrial company, providing wood slats to pencil manufacturers; Levitt urged him to form a separate entity to focus primarily on the marketing of a branded, high-quality firelog, which continues to dominate the market. “Ted had an... View Details