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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
moving.” Oishi had watched it all unfold as she built a career as a partner in McKinsey’s consumer goods practice in Tokyo—an almost ideal match for the sort of person who can’t not solve problems. Where some people solve crossword... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
brewer in the world; chairman of Coty Inc., the global beauty leader; and chairman of Labelux, a luxury goods group. “I’m not afraid of taking risks. I’m not afraid of losing,” says Harf, a native of Cologne who thrives on challenges and gave up a View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
extraordinary musical talent who neglects the deeper, spiritual part of himself in the excitement of pursuing his performance career of playing to large crowds. After a crisis of self-doubt, he returns to his grandfather's mountain cabin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
illuminating graphics to guide readers in conceiving, designing, building, testing, and scaling up the ideal business for them. The Career Playbook: Essential Advice for Today’s Aspiring Young Professional by James M. Citrin (MBA 1986)... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
(DBA) from HBS in 1963. Before beginning his long and distinguished academic career at Harvard Business School, he worked as a research associate at the International Institute for Management Development (now IMD) in Lausanne,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
had an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS. He had a good job at a sugar company in his native Mexico City. His career path seemed set. Music, though, was innate. His grandparents on his father’s side had been friends... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Career Development Programs Open Boundary Press This is a book for all who are facing career and life transitions. At such junctures, our decisions require the full self, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
performance. In Montgomery County, district leaders designed a process for analyzing data, monitoring progress, identifying best practices, and making and implementing decisions with system-wide outcomes that is based on a case about a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
everything to try to escape to freedom. “That experience,” she recalls, “made me passionate about the effects political and economic policy decisions have on individuals’ rights and opportunities.” Choi worked as a Wall Street Journal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
that you should. Consider corporate time horizons. It’s a choice to attempt to maximize corporate results over the very short run and a different and sometimes harder decision to take a longer-term view. I’m convinced that one of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
“punishment posting” or perhaps a move that signaled her desire for a slower-paced lifestyle after a fifteen-year career in various areas of ICICI Bank. “There were no visible indicators that signaled the potential for private equity in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Welcome to the USA! You’re Hired! By Betsy Cohen (MBA 1978) Constead Press In this book author and economic development innovator Betsy Cohen presents wisdom from a dozen experts in career development and job... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
bring along more successful people, and you’ll have more career endurance. Thirty-three million Americans have quit their jobs since the spring of 2021. What can good leaders do to make sure that workers are engaged and happy? The Great... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
people have burnout and struggle, insomnia, headaches, back pain, some form of leader B might be at play. Secondly, I've seen folks really stall out in their careers where—whether the organization has grown or your role has grown—I've... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
around them. To be in tune with their operating environment, they have to make many key strategic decisions about their mission focus, their product/service portfolio, and their value-creation model across a broad range of stakeholders in... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
poor communities was transformational for Rodríguez: “I made a decision that I didn’t want to be a spectator to poverty anymore.”) The IPO was a high-profile demonstration of the duo’s long-held vision. “It showed us that mainstream... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
choice. For Lopez, that has meant deploying a multifaceted strategy with an underlying premise: Make the customer feel at home while providing a sense of escape. "My career has always been about consumer persuasion," says Lopez, who came... View Details