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- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
inclusivity. We have a conscious bias toward companies with diverse leadership and companies focused on solving problems that disproportionately affect women and people of color. Both are systematically... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
company," says Jose Ferreira, "was to solve the twin problems of access to education and educational achievement. Only 22 percent of the world finishes high school; that is a preventable tragedy." In 2008,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the United States, this tension is symbolized by the proverbial conflicts between Wall Street and Main Street.” For HBS professors to be able to contribute to solving the global economic crisis, they must think beyond the system that... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
nonprofits a year,” either through direct engagement or in pro-bono brainstorming sessions. “It’s a wonderful way to give back,” says Club President Jan Gullet (MBA 1977). “We’ve done the research. Our members tell us what they value most is getting to know fellow... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
to own the problem and do a lot of work to figure out our values and culture.” “Coming to HBS with a liberal arts background from Yale meant I had to ‘tool up’ a bit on the more quantitative subjects. But I enjoyed the environment; the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
been effective. The issue is finding the dollars and the leadership to do that." SOLVING THE HR DILEMMA "It's difficult to recruit the skill level we need for district-level finance positions when most people capable of overseeing a $100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of shareholder power. The result is the imposition of ineffective,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Wells states, “I would hesitate to have those kinds of financial dealings thought of as equivalent to the problems of drug money, or terrorist financing, or secreted money from blatant bribes.” Maybe so. But the ethics of tax cheats are... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
management consulting and technical problem solving for industry. In 1949, ADL hired John Magee (MBA 6/'48) to help it expand into the new field of "operations research"; during decades of subsequent service... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
encouraging, though their release is. Last year marked the first time most of the leading technology companies publicly reported statistics on gender diversity. The conversation is changing. The question is no longer, does the tech industry have a gender diversity... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
value for society. You gain society’s confidence when you are seen as solving the biggest problems and contributing in ways that are innovative and imaginative. We need to return to creating real value for... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
me solve a problem within a day, or an hour, that might otherwise take a month. There are studies that look for consistent traits in entrepreneurs: Are they a firstborn child? Were their parents... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
surprising amount of problem solving occurs while sleeping. I wake up and take notes.” —Edward Conard (MBA 1982), The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class “I have no rituals... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
so that everybody feels like they have a role in making that vision come true. They also set up the systems and infrastructure for people to be effective within that organization, to collaborate and solve View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
of this caliber and level of ambition are rare. Even when their first ideas don’t pan out perfectly, they figure out a way to survive and thrive. I should have listened to our own assessment of Peter and his ability to solve View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for inventories and would solve the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance