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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
work cooperatively with the private sector,” Summers said, observing that “conflict of interest is one side of the coin, and synergy the other.” Summers was followed by MIT President Charles M. Vest and former HBS faculty member Eric S.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
power and influence. "The issues discussed had wide relevance," observes program chair Willa E. Seldon (MBA '86). Adds Wilkinson, "The dialogue took advantage of shared experiences from the vantage points of early- through late-career... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
Group helped offset production costs, as did the sale of some 2,400 tickets to students, alumni, and staff during the show's four-day run. “The show has a way of rallying the students and bringing the HBS community together,” observed... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Noah, Stephen Colbert, George Bush, Bill Clinton. “I have never been anywhere with Chris where half the people in the room did not already know him,” observes Harshman. Given his vast, varied experiences, Howard usually makes connections... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
impact on society by ensuring that business is a force for good,” observes John B. Hess (MBA 1977), who chaired the School’s $1.4 billion capital campaign, which concluded in 2018. “Enabling important research and ensuring support to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
relatively young leaders. It’s a huge priority to understand what motivates and concerns them,” she notes. Curry says she values great leadership and agrees with Dean Nitin Nohria’s observations about the global crisis of leadership. “If... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
integration.” Within two years of buying out Zain, operating in Africa as Airtel, Bharti has added more than 14 million new mobile customers (for a current total exceeding 50 million), while investing approximately US$1 billion in network infrastructure. Some View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
from business,” observed Holding. The New York club was one of several HBS clubs that organized events with a social enterprise theme in conjunction with the School’s Centennial year. “Our club is excited to continue its long tradition of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
over a five-month period, she observed 8 teams and surveyed some 427 employees. Edmondson found that members of teams with higher levels of psychological safety (those characterized by greater mutual respect and trust) were more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
paradox in succession is that a founder who has been doing a good job actually increases the chance he or she will be fired,” observes Wasserman. “Lew fit that profile perfectly.” After developing Wily’s technology, landing some important... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
“A Unique Leadership Experience”
walk—“To see the sunrise I saw colors I had just never seen before”—and his nightly ritual of watching thunderstorms over Central Africa from the space station’s observation cupola. The lightening is so bright, Virts said, “you can watch... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
September 2005 and was about a month away from its announced plan to emerge from Chapter 11 when Whitehurst visited the campus. Observing that a key to any turnaround is identifying the problem correctly, Whitehurst explained that Delta... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
Dixon, who is director of TechnoServe’s operations in Tanzania, explained the bigger picture. Noting that completely eradicating poverty is not a feasible goal for TechnoServe, Dixon observed that “if you are going to be poor, it is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
34 countries, leading to observations on everything from incentivization to the effects of competition on how firms are organized. “There is a branch of my field that is closer to philosophy,” she says. “Ultimately, though, I want to have... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking about is how a company can create a culture where an employee feels comfortable telling a boss, “Oh, I just observed that no one is wearing a helmet in the factory. Maybe we should change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
exploration has involved meetings with forty HBS faculty members involved in a wide variety of research endeavors. "If Harvard Business School only knew what Harvard Business School knows," Quelch observes with a wry smile. "There is so... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
partnership that has remained strong through three start-ups. Dubinsky and Hawkins built Palm Computing and made the PDA the most rapidly adopted consumer electronics product at that time. "The PalmPilot grew out of failure," observes... View Details