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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She subsequently started her own... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
As Paul Moskowitz’s wedding approached last winter, his fiancé started receiving a deluge of gifts at her apartment. At least that was the idea. What she actually received, because she worked late and didn’t have a doorman, was a stream... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
school and college? And where are you starting to see the idea get traction? Falik: It starts with the language we use. The metaphor of a gap year is exactly the wrong one—this idea that you’re sending your... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
concentrate on developmental capital and buyouts. If that worked, we could turn our attention to brand-new ventures later on, which we did." "We started out as generalists," says Waite. "All through the '60s and '70s, there wasn't a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
on shared terminals in Baker Library, the game required first-year students to put their newly acquired knowledge of marketing, control, finance, and operations to the test in a simulated competitive business environment. In addition to the game, View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
executive wanted to take on the opioid crisis. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Jim, your organization, the Georgia Prevention Project, the name of it says it all. Getting people who are addicted to drugs to stop taking them is really difficult. And using scare tactics to get... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
building robots and doing things that help the world both locally and globally. “I think what HBS did for me was [that it] began to make me a global thinker and a thinker about large problems and strategies for getting from one place to... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
she thought; it was about putting people in positions who were willing to push beyond office politics and take action to make diversity and inclusion mission critical. So Hoffman started her own company, which would eventually become... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
name that recognizes the city’s rich cultural history. Jim Birch was reaching out to buyers across the country—with no thought at all of changing the brand—when he started encountering questions. People in different parts of the country... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
remember he said, ‘O, I don’t mean any [opera singer Enrico] Caruso stuff; but I suppose you can shout a bit with the boys?’ He then asked me if my circulation was good. I said it was except for one finger, which frequently went dead in View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
topic, aptly titled Radical Candor, was released in 2017, and she’s prepping a follow-up, which applies her theories to the topic of gender and justice at work. But on this episode of Skydeck, Scott and I start at the beginning—with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
By all accounts, September 11, 2001, was the worst day in the history of the airline industry. But that didn’t stop Jim Whitehurst (MBA ’94), then a partner at The Boston Consulting Group in Atlanta, from joining Delta Airlines that day as the firm’s acting treasurer.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
basis. We want that to change. That sounds like a big undertaking. Where did you begin? There was not even commonality in the definition of what a leader is and what leadership behaviors are, so we started by developing a conversation... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
would be a ways off. “This is a really big ship to turn,” he says. “But when I started hearing real, actual time lines—that was music to my ears.” It wasn’t just a vision but a plan. And just as importantly, that plan wasn’t a short-term... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
Here’s one example of how the problem plays out in practice. In our research, we came across a book by George Halverson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente. In making the argument for flat-fee reimbursement (which his company employs),... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Finding an Audience
agreed that the main reason is that people do not know about this. We realized that there were over 100 concerts of classical music in the metropolitan area every month, and they are not advertised in newspapers. “So we started to contact... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis by Bill George (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on his in-the-trenches experience and lessons from crisis-tested executives, Professor George shows what leaders must do to become strong and survive any crisis. His seven lessons include Face... View Details