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- 01 Aug 2001
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Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
engineer Bob Stobaugh decided to pursue his true vocation: teaching. "As a manager in the oil and chemical industries, I often needed to explain complex business problems to my coworkers," Stobaugh says. "I found that I enjoyed the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Belsky has compiled their most powerful (and often counterintuitive) practices, such as generating ideas in moderation, reducing all projects to just three main components, encouraging fighting within your team, and seeking competition... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
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Serious Fun
The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun. Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
on MBAs. Here’s a closer look at three of this year’s offerings. Investing for Impact Professor Shawn Cole, Finance, and Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi, General Management A rapidly growing share of asset owners and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jul 2013
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The Nature of Business
Mark Tercek Mark Tercek likes a challenge. As CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), he has led the global nonprofit to fearlessly take on conservation projects that no one else would. "We are trying to tackle those global challenges that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
German-based transmission manufacturer—I implemented a big project where we were essentially moving around pieces of equipment to create a more optimized workflow. It seemed to make so much sense to me, but some people were really not in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
He’s Back
Wesleyan, he returned three punts for touchdowns and led the NCAA’s Division III in average punt-return yards his senior year), Robinson returns to his former stomping grounds at a busy time. Several big projects are in progress: a $2... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
Conducting an independent study project during his second year at HBS, John Rice (MBA ’92) learned that many talented minority college students didn’t know much about the business world, and therefore leaned toward careers in law or... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
Finance, and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), founder and CEO of Year Up. The initiative tackles training for the nearly two-thirds of American workers who lack a four-year college degree. Palandjian’s Social Finance is designing the initiative and View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
An International Perspective
engineering science from the California Institute of Technology, Waite spent several years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group in a variety of technical and project management roles in Norway, the Netherlands,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing
steeped in decades of Marxism and anti-Western dogma. In 1990, the two men coauthored Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises, a book about US-USSR management systems that itself emerged from an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
management experience and lay the financial groundwork for his family to transition into the world of nonprofits. He wound up staying twice as long. “Every year it would get to bonus time, and I’d say, ‘All right, next year I’m going to... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing business leaders across the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
the September 23 summit, “New Directions in Non-profit Leadership,” to give the city’s nonprofit leaders an opportunity to hear innovative thinking and best practices from a trio of HBS professors and nearly fifty practitioners. Sessions focused on three topics: View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
widely accepted and utilized in much of the rest of the world, remain virtually unknown in North America. “I suspect it boils down to the following: Too cheap + too simple = minimal profit. Not my idea of responsible capitalism,” he says. After HBS I took a job out... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
Neeley hopes her book—along with recent Harvard Business Review articles, academic articles, cases, an online learning global collaboration simulation, and insights she shares as a professor in the MBA and Executive Education programs—continues to make language a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
operate livestock breeding centers, improve soil systems, and create opportunities for a younger generation to take on farming. In Armenia, Heifer has been teaching farmers about pasture management as well as helping to develop an... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
precious. Instead of a briefcase, however, Main Wilson will be toting a Nikon D3 with four lenses—one of which he describes as “a miniature telescope.” It’s all part of an ambitious project Main Wilson has set for himself: to become the... View Details