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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
LA and a quick visit to check out the Globe’s new offices in downtown Boston, Singer (MBA 2000/JD 2001) dives into a Starbucks; the unanswered question evaporates in the effort to acquire a restorative latte with one pump of mocha. It’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
country’s economic health? There’s little doubt that manufacturing as a percentage of our GDP is down. Part of that represents tremendous growth in financial, IT, and health services. It’s hard to know whether it’s a good news story for... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative responses, including the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
made a leap of faith. If he could just find a management position at a nonprofit, he figured, he could help direct social change. “That was my thesis,” he recalls. Since he made that jump, he’s proved that thesis correct several times over. His career has included... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
are aware of the new opportunities, and then you've got to motivate and enable them to find an insurance solution that makes sense for them." After all, no one wakes up in the morning excited to buy insurance. "It's a grudge... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
Andrea Pimienta, Class of 2021 My family’s life in the U.S. started in 1987, about four years before I was born, when my parents emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. for my father’s new job as the CEO of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
1998 when its symptoms of shaking and uncontrolled movement became visibly apparent. As depicted through Marty McFly, Fox’s desperate desire to get back to normal life seemed to take on new and poignant meaning. A fan of Fox while growing... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)
and Founding Partner at Imaginary Ventures), and Angela F. Williams (President and CEO of United Way Worldwide) as well as 7 panels and a startup pitch competition. Panel speakers included women execs from big tech, AI startups, medical... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
“The JRC found businesses to partner with, and I reached out to CEOs I knew at companies such as Uniqlo (Fast Retailing), Lawson, Yamato Transport, and a hospital chain,” Takeuchi notes. “No one could believe Harvard students would travel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
requirements with life obligations and to persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Telling the stories of people at companies like JetBlue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the authors discuss View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
unpredictable elements: Cuban politics, US politics, and the weather. The potential payoff? Making the first footprint in the sand. Watching a country take a new shape. Being part of a revolution. Keeping up the vintage American fleet at... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
When she joined the new private-sector team at Oxfam America as a freshly minted MBA in 2007, Roshini Moodley Naidoo was essentially given the following directive: All those great ideas we’ve been discussing? Make them happen. It was a... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
the unconscious thought condition compared to both conscious thought and mere distraction. As there were no differences in sequence memory for the film, it remains unclear what mechanism was responsible for this effect. These results encourage further research into a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
new Emerging Leaders edition of True North, which includes Foster's story as an example of the importance of crucible experiences in defining leaders. And in this episode of Skydeck Foster and George share the lessons of their own... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken to address the unique... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
long-term growth. The plan that emerged redefined HCZ’s mission and mix of programs, created practices to carefully evaluate and track results, and defined a new organizational structure needed to support program expansion. Under the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
in MBA programs. It didn’t work out that way. Our recruiting team returned from the field with a fraction of the potential students we needed to field a program. Clearly, we had misjudged something. Then two members of our administrative team (Tim Armour, now President... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
session was devoted to the topic "Profits for Nonprofits: Challenges of Earning Your Own Way." (Starbuck's CEO Orin Smith addressed a related theme—can for-profit companies integrate non-profit values—in his keynote speech... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Broadcasting shortly afterward, however, Dodi's division was dissolved. Still under contract, she found herself with eight months of paid "vacation." "The time off helped me get the kids settled into a new culture," she says. In August... View Details