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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
implicit in the book’s title, the authors interviewed more than forty CEOs from both industry and the nonprofit sector, studied what successful managers do right, and drew on their own years of experience at Bain. They came View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
venture funds, he has eloquently and vigorously made the case for this source of economic development in a continent long dominated by big business and risk-averse managers and investors. Born and raised in The Hague, the son of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
has been the inability for folks to be able to manage their personal family lives with kids studying at home. Not everybody has a setup where partners are able to split the work. But outside of that, there’s the benefits of lower stress... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
interdependency of the work environment is a challenge for many recent graduates,” says Marquis. “This case illustrates the importance of managing relationships with peers and senior managers. Getting work done is primarily about that,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received
MORE Hear more advice in the special reunion edition of the Skydeck podcast MORE Hear more advice in the special reunion edition of the Skydeck podcast Spring reunions welcomed 3,600 alumni and guests to campus, and the Bulletin staff set View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
direction in the early planning stages required a fuller understanding of its financing. “I also wanted to bring better management skills to the nonprofit sector,” she adds. “I thought business school was going to be like taking medicine... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
Organizations, offered this winter. Related Links Opening the Door The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting From Where We Stand How did you become interested in this topic? About five years ago I was invited to address a conference that a major bank was hosting for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
about 25 percent turned out to be mistakes. In other words, a typical manager gets it wrong a lot. So if a “right stuff” screen doesn’t predict future success, what does? I spent a lot of time searching. It wasn’t until I came across work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
several fatalities there. There were 28,000 employees at that mine; we brought people up from below ground and worked to retrain and refocus them. We lost millions of dollars while production was curtailed, but it was the right thing to... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
the way he felt about himself. How can managers be better teachers? The writer David Foster Wallace believed that the world would only become a better place if humans, when they woke up in the morning, said,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
Web 2.0 opportunities for your firm are endless. Managers can engage with customers via blogs (caution: they take much more time than you think). Victoria’s Secret and thousands of other firms have highly successful exposure on Facebook... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Emeritus, and William Meckling. Capitalism has been reeling ever since. That’s the view of Roger Martin (MBA ’81) in his new book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL (Harvard Business Review Press). Martin is dean of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
can bring important impartiality to the process. Codify reusable learning. McGrath teaches that any time a company innovates, two good things can happen. Successfully commercializing an idea is clearly a good outcome. So too, however, is learning something that sets... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
battling it out over the issues of the day.” The Atlantic has been profitable for five years now, with advertising revenue up 40 percent over last year. For now, at least, all online content is free, including full articles from the print... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
Way, also seeks that coveted CEO position in order to mix things up in another way: by giving young black men a role model for success in business. "We need more balance in how people look at, admire, and respect black men," he says. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Senior Lecturer John Macomber grew up working for the George B.H. Macomber Company, the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg ask why. When women made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States in 2019, why are they still dramatically underrepresented in the ranks... View Details