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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
Lowell, and the School's famous benefactor, George F. Baker. "I hope and believe that this school is to be the standard for all others," stated Baker, "but it must be remembered always that the standards of excellence must be maintained,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
run a successful multinational IT services firm where employees are treated like an extended family and strategy emerges from the bottom up? Those are the key leadership questions posed by Professor David Garvin’s 2010 case, “Zensar: The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
IBM-based network built around Lotus Notes in the Advanced Management Program. These two initiatives led to enhanced faculty collaboration and the first use of interactive multimedia teaching tools for case discussion. Just as many companies during this period... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
Idea Village, an anchor organization for the emerging entrepreneurial movement in New Orleans, Markowitz (MBA 2003) struggled to find a decent job there. With an HBS degree and a background in corporate finance, she seemed overqualified... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
players. Significantly for the sports industry's economics, TV revenues helped fuel the explosion in player salaries. Like everyone else, athletes gaped at the size of TV contracts and - assisted by an emerging group of player agents -... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for water services and wastewater treatment for 17 million people in 1,800 communities in the United States and Canada. American Water typically owns and/or operates the municipal water system in a community, while the community continues... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
syndrome (MERS), a coronavirus that causes fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The spread of MERS had been limited since its emergence in Saudi Arabia in 2012, with only about 2,500 total cases globally, but one in three infections... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
turning our considerable energies more and more to giving back. Typically, much effort is original and entrepreneurial: starting film schools for inner-city youth or tackling the problem of what to do with eighteen-year-olds emerging from... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
growth," said conference cochair William H. Swift (MBA 1974). The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce sponsored the opening reception at the Ritz-Carlton. The conference kicked off with an examination of trends and opportunities in emerging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
and skilled people to accomplish what relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that managed the flow of relief supplies. IBM’s actions exemplify an emerging business idea: the vanguard company creating synergy... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
feeling like, 'So what?'" someone else comments. * Note: The term "international" in this article refers to individuals who were born outside the United States and are not permanent U.S. residents. According to HBS officials, only those... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 31 May 2013
- News
Seeing the Light
EVANS: A second career emerges from a lifelong avocation. Photo courtesy of Chip Evans For decades, Chip Evans (MBA 1973) was a Mad Man in Manhattan, doing account work for major Fortune 500 clients at iconic advertising agencies such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
in nearly 300 color photographs of the churches and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries. Many of the structures are now in states of neglect and require restoration to ensure that they will continue to stand. The book is a project of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
“What happens when the algorithms make a mistake on someone’s credit score, and because of that they don’t get a loan? How do you protect against bias? How do you regulate data access and ownership? These are critical leadership questions as we View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
members agreed to shed their titles and hierarchical way of working to eliminate what she regards as impediments to group cohesion and creativity. Participants were left to organize themselves and set their own schedules. And at the end of the first effort, the team... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
reason for my life.” Wolfensohn emerges from these engaging pages as thoughtful, compassionate, hugely entrepreneurial, and very well-connected. But you don’t want to get on his wrong side, as his description of a blowup with an... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
students, relocated persons, immigrants, or refugees—will find useful advice for landing a job in the United States this book. Readers will learn the different stages of the search process and how to prepare for each one, as well as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
Education, a project is under way to examine the portfolio of offerings to foster what Light calls “a reconception” of thinking about business education for managers at different points in their careers. One new offering still in the pilot phase, the Program for View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ready for my Nicotrol somewhere over Mount Rushmore; unfortunately, it's tucked away in my briefcase, which is jammed in the overhead compartment behind some clown's trombone case. I try to explain to the flight attendant that I really need to have that trombone tossed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
company. It “benefited from the benign neglect” of other firms. Andy Grove emerging from the New York City subway (1958). A recent arrival to the United States from his native Hungary, he would be named Time... View Details