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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
"paternalistic" culture here that didn't fit well with my style. I was very committed to teaching but really couldn't pull off the strong, formal control that my male colleagues—especially senior male colleagues—had in the classroom.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) My first job was as a derivatives trader. The markets fascinated me; the testosterone-driven View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
search firm RobinsonButler, for a quick rundown of the day. Was there a takeaway from the event that struck you—an insight that really resonated? Kent Thiry (MBA 1983), cochairman and CEO of DaVita, one of the world's largest dialysis companies, talked about how he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
day or less. The number of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid’s peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now, with View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
around them. To be in tune with their operating environment, they have to make many key strategic decisions about their mission focus, their product/service portfolio, and their value-creation model across a broad range of stakeholders in widely varying political and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan’s fifth-largest automaker and employer of more than 38,000 people, Fields was named 2001 Asian Business Innovator of the Year (by CNBC Asia Pacific and TNT, a business logistics company).. A New York and New Jersey native, Fields worked for IBM in sales and View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
herd of elephants in Ghana? Working for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) might seem like a logical step, but Andrew Murphy (MBA ’07), director of strategy, research, and development at the WWF’s Markets Group, would disagree. He insists his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
capacity of this pair to lead culture change in their organization,” Ely says. At HBS, a growing number of faculty members were focused on questions of inclusivity even before BiGS launched in the fall of 2022, says Senior Lecturer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, then went on to Harvard College. “Going to Harvard was a shock for me, a cultural shock,” he said in a February 2021 interview. “I was unprepared for it. Most of my fellow students had gone into prep... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Non-Government Organizations in the 21st Century by John A. Quelch and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander (Thomson South-Western) Using twelve HBS cases, Professor Quelch and Laidler-Kylander (MBA ’92) examine how NGOs like Oxfam America, Doctors Without Borders, and Care USA... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
marketing job at Amazon, looking to reconnect with my creative side and do something entrepreneurial. Enter my cofounders, Shahil Patel and Mayuri Bhandari. In Boston, Shahil, a first-year MBA at MIT, was fresh off of the semifinals of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken together with HBS and several... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
Seki. “We want to prove that we can maximize the return by installing ESG thinking in younger companies and, hopefully, nurture global startups from Japan.” In a Japanese business culture still widely dominated by men, gender has proven... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ventured into Kansas City and Chicago. But that meant marketing under a different name — another of Rogers’ many war stories. A year after Rogers and Cronk bought Dreyer’s, a lawyer from Kraft Foods, owner at the time of nationally... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
candidate is being considered. Someone applying for a marketing manager position might be asked to develop a multi-channel pitch and presentation in response to an RFP from a particular brand, for example. “We’re not saying we think this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Herlihy (MBA 1981) (Gerard A. Herlihy) A satire about another out-of-control commodity and stock market boom. Blowing Smoke: Essays on Energy and Climate by Rud Istvan (MBA 1974) (Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co.) From the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
it resists bruising. For consumers, that means increased convenience—potatoes can be prepped in advance—and reduced food waste. The White Russet marketing campaign is unique, too. When the company introduced the potatoes into supermarkets... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
OCTOBER 6 Rajendra Aneja (AMP 175, 2008) brought his expertise in marketing in rural areas to the task of stopping the spread of the COVID-19, which he deems “the biggest and most serious problem facing mankind since World War II.” In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
was ranked number one in guest satisfaction for 2009 by the Market Metrix Hospitality Index (based on over 130,000 hotel customer surveys), beating competitors including the Ritz-Carlton, W Hotels, and the Four Seasons. Michael Depatie... View Details