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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
valuable IP," he says. "That IP tends to be lost, or picked up for little money by companies that don't contribute to the competitiveness of the technology industry. I like salvaging them, then selling them to big corporate buyers. The... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Basketball Association was a recently launched, little-known organization, and Gelman had accepted a promising post-college job as a strategy consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. But her decision to defer the consulting... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
figured that there had to be opportunities for other corporations to extract that same value,” says Leiman. The decision to base the business in Europe was driven in part by Ogden’s personal ties to his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In “Sarah Talley and Frey Farms... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
organizations—West Bend Mutual and the Milwaukee Bucks—to demonstrate how our strong leaders can come together to help their organizations make a real impact in our community,” says Galezewski. “As a statewide HBS Club of Wisconsin, an event like this hits all of our... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
decision to apply to the doctoral program so I could develop that understanding and share it with others. Secretary Allison reinforced the importance of being a strategic leader. Over time, I’ve had the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
revitalize product lines produced by some of America’s most recognizable retailers. More recently, Ross, a self-styled corporate maverick, has branched out from products to explore process in pursuit of View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power, intensified competition, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Stevenson Accepts Key University Position
President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Donella M. Rapier (MBA ’92) on strategic planning for University fundraising, as well as its implementation. “Howard has played... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
Social and Environmental Stewardship, the report praised HBS as a leader in fostering social awareness, incorporating social concerns into coursework and projects, and supporting student activities and faculty research that influence both classroom materials and View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
healthcare is rationed, the retirement age is 75, and exit permits are required to leave the country. Univer-Cities: Strategic View of the Future from Berkeley and Cambridge to Singapore and Rising Asia. Vol. II. edited by Tony Teo (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
e-Leadership by D. Quinn Mills (Cyber Classics, Inc. /BNI/ Publications) In today's fast-changing, global, Internet-influenced economy, the successful corporate leader must bring a new set of skills to the job. In e-Leadership: Guiding... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Gamble's leadership training programs. There's nothing like having to step into a decision maker's shoes to learn about leadership." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "If you can find work that both stretches you and plays to your strengths,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
study of companies in Western countries. But while innovation was the most important driver of high performance among the corporations in the Western economies, in Asian companies the key element was how customer-oriented firms were. That... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Hospital before joining the HBS faculty in 1997. “We knew we needed a program that ran for longer than a week that not only addresses the higher-level strategic questions but also considers the difficult blocking and tackling that makes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
emulate, support, and manage these important individuals for long-term corporate success. Managing Local Governments: Designing Management Control Systems that Deliver Value by Emanuele Padovani and David W. Young (DBA 1977) (Routledge)... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
considered his humanitarian work to be at odds with his business activities. In fact, his international experiences have informed Palliser’s strategic decisions. “We’ve acted globally for the past 40 years,” he says. In the 1990s, when... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer... View Details