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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
planned to publicize Clocky beyond some photos on the course website, but a few gadget aficionado blogs linked to the images, and the buzz went viral. Around the same time, HBS professor Elie Ofek was seeking case studies for his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Digital abandoned plans to spin off the company, Lang resigned. "My vision was to take AltaVista public," she explains. "I don't believe in staying in a job where you can't be passionate about the results." Lang has spent the past year... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
his thoughts on the unique challenges of leading a pharmaceutical company in these uncertain times. —Jennifer Gillespie When did you realize that Eva Pharma could help to mitigate the pandemic and what did your action plan entail? Riad... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
Photography by Neal Hamberg If your middle-school science class is studying New England’s green crab population, chances are you’ll get a lot more excited about the origin, life cycle, and environmental impact of this remarkable invasive... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
much better job at work and probably always wonder if you aren't missing out on one of the great life experiences. You can decide to have kids and give up your career, and always wonder if you are not maximizing who you could be. You... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
in-development wireless TV from Haier; Toyota's plans to make it easier to charge Prius models; and an iPhone charger due out later in 2013. Then there are the wirelessly recharging AA batteries that will hopefully reduce the 40 billion... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
observations about how life can take some unexpected turns. “I point out to them that I couldn't teach this course without my background in math, even though I didn't use it in my previous careers.” As he approaches his 25th HBS reunion,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
manufacturing job. “The operations of a manufacturing business are very different from a capital business,” he adds. “Frankly, I’m still learning a lot every day.” And he’s putting that new knowledge into action. Last November, the company rolled out a product... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
within the organization,” says Fieldhouse. “We built a manager’s training course; individual development plans that focused on adaptive and executive function skills; workplace performance scales; and transition and career movement... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
improvements and concrete action plans that were designed to improve patient conversion and timelines, from diagnosis to treatment,” Leger explains. “The project led to fewer required patient visits, better management of patient... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
battery-storage opportunity this way: When Tesla announced its plans to produce an electric-vehicle battery that could run for a million miles on a single charge, she began to wonder what might happen to that battery once the car itself... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country three years earlier in hopes of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
streets. It had become a ghost town. “It was a really shocking sight,” says Hori, and one at odds with the bustling commercial hub he remembered. The experience led him to start the Downtown Mito Rebirth Project in 2016, a public-private partnership designed to breathe... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
The 2005 HBS Global Leadership Forum in London proved to be a unique experience in ways that were planned — and even in some that were not — for nearly 600 alumni, faculty, and guests. By day, alumni listened to and learned from... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
responds in the negative. "I knew I would be with Synthes for a certain amount of time, because I had some equity in the company and saw there was huge potential for our products in the United States—if we could survive the first five years." But well before he entered... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni might find useful at different career and life stages. Thanks to the encouragement and strong effort of this committee and the larger board, the School has developed an impressive menu of programs offered specifically to alumni,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
microscope by thousands of HBS students, tell it like it was and relate what they’ve learned and what they believe about being a leader. Toby Johnson Putting Her People First Whether leading in military or civilian life (bottom, at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bujalski (MBA 1976) Independently published Very few of us get through life without experiencing a major personal crisis or devastating loss. These crises and losses can come with great pain and often with almost unbearable inner turmoil.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
Why make them wait to implement their vision? Helping Harvard - to which I feel a deep sense of gratitude in terms of my career and personal development - is especially satisfying and enjoyable for me at this stage of my life." When Rauner entered Dartmouth College in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
creating one that did. The plan he assembled had three parts. The first was addressing the performance of CIP division managers by rating their execution performance. Here, Stuckey held fast to the familiar: an academic grading chart. If... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon