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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
ready-to-heat soups, shipping an average of thirty thousand gallons each week. Shafir - himself a study in constant motion - plans to move his operation to a roomier location in nearby Chelsea early this year. Despite adding a $2.5... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
problems involved in establishing and operating new enterprises. The course is intended primarily for students who contemplate going into business for themselves." The first course devoted to entrepreneurship established at HBS, MNE, in... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- News
The History of Beauty
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Internet, and corporations are now buying their entire travel budget through specialized applications we deliver over the Internet." Technology has also changed the decision-making process for airline employees, giving them "the ability to take vast quantities of data... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
international trade and investment. In 1965 he was asked to direct the School's Multinational Enterprise Project to study the operations of U.S.- and foreign-based multinationals. Vernon's team looked at these organizations in terms of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
(subtitled How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership) includes new material intended to guide fledgling managers through specific operational issues, such as dealing with organizational politics, influencing peers and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
matter to leave to tech departments, no matter how good they may be,” warns HBS assistant professor Robert D. Austin. “That’s because, more than being a technical problem, achieving cyber security is an operational issue that requires... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
done by an individual operating alone," Zschau declared. "The old business model of self-reliance, of doing everything ourselves, is no longer applicable in a world that's changing rapidly and has global markets." Zschau went on to... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career of Peter Brooke, who has been called “the Johnny Appleseed of venture capital”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
smart, passionate people here at Children’s HealthWatch, as well as with talented, passionate funders, advocates, and policymakers. “We operate in many ways as a small entity, but are also part of a larger organization. We also work... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
McNerney: It’s all about being globally competitive and creating U.S. jobs. Illustration by Andy Friedman Related Links The Path to Economic Revival Making Their Way Squawk Box at HBS - Jim McNerney, Dean Nitin Nohria, and University Professor Michael Porter discuss... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You by Francis Frei, Professor of Technology and Operations Management; and Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) Harvard Business Review Press Leadership isn’t easy. It takes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Leaders typically ask, “Am I accomplishing my program?” But that is too narrow a view. Nonprofit leaders need to be more visionary. They need to stretch themselves more and worry about mission impact. I believe nonprofit leaders get too bogged down in View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
shipment is little red scooters, with a 60-mile range. In the spring, we’ll have four-wheelers, with nice touches like windows you can operate and with a heater and that have a 60-mile range, and cost us less than those first scooters... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
agency in North Minneapolis that operates a large facility on Plymouth Avenue. BR: The funeral home building was right behind North Point. And so North Point wanted to expand. And so I began to work with Michael Noonan and I said, you... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
community involvement are not only legitimate but indeed essential to their day-to-day operations and long-term strategy," says Thomas. This trend suggests that business - propelled by changing demographics, technology, and socioeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
October 2020. This is her first gig as chief executive, but it’s one she has long envisioned. As a little girl, growing up first in the DC area and then later in Connecticut, McKenna dreamed of running a Fortune 500 company. As CEO of Mercy Corps, McKenna is leading a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
arena," Goldman says. "More than a discount transaction house, we're positioning ourselves to compete now as a full-service investment firm without charging the hefty commissions that 'full service' usually implies. Our online presence is just part of a larger View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons