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- 17 Jun 2014
- News
Shedding light on business issues and opportunities in Asia
When Michael Shih-ta Chen (MBA 1972) attended HBS in the early 1970s, only a handful of case studies featured businesses in Asia. Now, some 25 cases a year focus on business issues in China, Korea, Australia, Southeast Asia, and other surrounding countries. As the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time management during a TEDx... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent per year over a period of 10 years. In 2002, Harf joined the View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
implementation. By facilitating execution, leaders drive growth and innovation. While some leaders define themselves by how much they accomplish, they don’t always get employees on board when it comes to getting things done. They may be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Labor Relations Board then notifies the business owner that a secret ballot election must take place within six weeks. During that time employers wishing to make the case to their employees that they would be better off without a union... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
company. “There is a clear distinction between the board of directors and the management team,” explains Tian. “I have the right to hire and fire people. I’ve hired about twelve hundred employees so far but... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
purchased by Google for $3.2 billion in 2014. Nolan and Natarajan “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan, director of FirstBuild—the GE/Local Motors partnership—are sitting with Rogers in the University of Louisville’s University Club in late April,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
number of people who can benefit from the ideas and scholarship developed at the School," says Stevens, who, with his wife, Mary, is a member of the Board of Dean's Advisors and a founding donor to HBX. Their leadership support of HBX... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) Deputy Director of Education, Next Generation Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Illustrations by Peter Hoey TAILORED TEACHING "One of our anchors... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
25 years of experience in numerous industries, Pritzker founded Vi Senior Living, and cofounded the Parking Spot and Artemis Real Estate Partners. She is a member of the board of Microsoft; chairman of the View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
During the bull market of the 1990s, stock grants and options formed increasingly large components of executive compensation. Now, however, with many options "underwater" as share values have declined well below the strike price, boards... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
top-notch board of directors who bring management and strategy expertise to the organization. Getting this group together, he says, is very rewarding. “We meet and brainstorm, and then we take trips to see... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to transform HBS internally, nurture relationships with the University and our neighbors, and foster a shared vision for racial equity. The CDIO will have a key role in influencing the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
gift to help launch the FIELD 2 program. “The world has changed,” says Rubenstein, a member of the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors and cofounder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group. “To prepare for 21st-century business realities, you have to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
look at its purpose and what it was giving back to the public,” says Lewis Braxton III (PMD 66, 1993), who recently retired as deputy director of NASA’s Ames Research Center and is now pursuing a position with a space startup. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
content being added to an ever-expanding list of platforms that it could be dizzying for a viewer to try to pick something to watch. As director of product, Liang spent her days building tools to help organize the chaos: Say you were in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
are trying to do the right thing. How do we make boards even stronger? Some good ideas I've heard recently call for getting the independent directors to meet alone without management and having somebody... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons