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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
founded Alibris, an e-commerce company that sells used, rare, and out-of-print books. We failed, a lot—HBS has a case on our more interesting failures. Our biggest setback came early. We planned to launch our commercial website and close... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
edge and attract new devotees without losing its core following? “We can still accommodate the traditional customer because our styling is classic,” says Matthew McEvoy (MBA 1989), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
flexible framework of an annual review process on the child’s birthday, combined with a structure for increasing permissions, responsibilities, and conversations. Entitlemania: How Not to Spoil Your Kids, and What to Do If You Have by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
wanted more real-world responsibilities—implementing projects, managing larger groups, making an impact. She left Bain in 2005 for a job as strategic planning manager at Whirlpool. Tasked with turning around the business's cooking... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
it is also a way of addressing men’s (and Gen Y’s) growing hopes for flexibility and innovative ways of working. This book clarifies the business case for gender balance, explores what men have to gain, and provides the basic knowledge to engender debate and action... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in real estate. With Bill Poorvu, a real-estate investor who also... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
alumni community. “I really liked being connected to other alumni, and Community Partners has helped me maintain a strong connection to HBS,” she says. “It was a pretty positive experience. I definitely plan to stay involved.” Now serving... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
relevant to our customers, we must have a global perspective and a global presence.” The bank opened offices in London and Bangalore last fall and plans to open one in Shanghai this year. Relevance also drives venture-capital firms to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
develop a personal investment blueprint, design a solid financial plan to help you gain number clarity, hire an advisor who understands you and values your voice at the table, interpret the mumbo jumbo of investment language, and pull it... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
they’ll be presented with a different political picture, one where the underlying mechanisms have been renewed and modernized, where America’s democracy is again the envy of the world. Here, she talks about how the Leadership Now Project View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
At that point, Rogers recounts with a smile, the Kraft lawyer “got very reasonable.” On the spot, he offered to let Dreyer’s use its name in thirteen western states, a compromise that Rogers readily accepted. At the time, he had no plans... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
the CEO, and ideally I become the COO over the course of the process if I hire the right director. And what I mean by that is the producer starts out with the original idea, puts together the whole team, so it starts out with the idea, in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
primary goal of our coalition in Iraq,” Bush told the UN in September, “is self-government for the people of Iraq, reached by an orderly and democratic process. This process must unfold according to the needs of Iraqis, neither hurried... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
formative years, his decorated career, and his postwar life. Sail the World: Everything You Need to Know to Circumnavigate the Globe by Erick A. Reickert (MBA 1965) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Reickert explains the whole View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
notes in this manner will likely increase. Technology also assists on the processing end, enabling class and section correspondents to communicate with classmates with greater ease than ever before and to submit their copy seamlessly to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
remember that business is all about working with people, be they your associates or customers." DANIEL GREGORY Wesleyan University, 1951 B.S., Psychology "Companies don't grow and succeed through some sort of miracle or because you put a lot of money into them. During... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
me so that I could focus on my talent, which is seeing the gifts in other people.” Ultimately, Bradley’s plan to establish an independent financial base for a political run came to fruition, even if it took quite a bit longer than the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
plan for: The HBS survey found that 83 percent of alumnae expected to successfully combine their jobs and their personal lives, while only 47 percent said their expectations matched with the reality; 86 percent of men had expectations of... View Details