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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
(Palgrave Macmillan) make clear, the blowout that killed 11 people and created an ecological miasma could have been prevented by any one of dozens of managers or executives speaking up about eight serious... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
addition to developing the skills necessary for effective teamwork. Our goal is to ensure that our graduates are well-versed in the principles of general management and prepared to lead organizations. We are committed to offering programs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
LI AND BERNOFF: Executives can’t afford to turn their backs on social networking. Nothing gives CEOs and marketers instant heartburn more than seeing their hard-won brand equity hijacked by forces beyond their control — too often by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
have transformed China over the past 25 years. The itinerary included academic and media panel presentations on a variety of topics affecting China and networking events with HBS alumni. Students also met with corporate executives and... View Details
Keywords: immersion; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
—it's the challenge of leading a major company in the turbulent global economy. A longtime executive at Monsanto and BFGoodrich, Price believes that the turmoil caused by forces such as consolidation, overcapacity, and technological... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
to our detriment. Americans and other Western health-care leaders are often unaware of the many advances in health-care management and delivery that are being made "under the radar" in diverse parts of the world. To further disseminate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
will help it thrive in captivity? Three professors in the School’s Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it’s a rare quality bestowed on a chosen few, but all agree... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
outreach of clubs and associations. One key recommendation involves deployment of new technology to improve club communications, including the ability to broadcast e-mail and share member data. The Alumni Career Services Committee is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
to Cabot Corporation, a specialty chemicals firm, where he is general manager of the Performance Products Business Group. He believes his Taiwan experience demonstrated his ability to adapt quickly in new... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Adding Value
Mary Callahan Erdoes Her first experience managing money was as a six-year-old helping her grandparents balance their checkbook. Today, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) is CEO of JPM Asset Management, JPMorgan Chase's $2.2 trillion money... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Anjali Raina to Lead India Research Center
In March, Anjali Raina was appointed executive director of HBS’s India Research Center in Mumbai. She spent the past fifteen years with Citigroup (India). The center was established in 2006 to support faculty research and course... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
NFL Players Hit the Books
Thirty-five NFL players traded their shoulder pads for notepads in late February to participate in an Executive Education program designed by the HBS faculty to help them prepare for careers after football. The NFL Business View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses — certain to be a driver of this century’s new economy — demand new management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
David Strohm (MBA ’80), a VC advisor on Wily’s board, requested that Cirne step down to CTO and clear the way for an executive with the expertise to lead the company in its next stage of development. After the initial shock, Cirne agreed,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
of customer-equity management in a variety of industries, the authors outline how to build and implement powerful new business and marketing systems. A comprehensive guide to managing customer portfolios... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
potentially ruinous obstacles that managers face. From Ford to General Motors, Sears to Lehman Brothers, it has torpedoed many good businesses. Why would any sane, smart executive deny a fact of critical... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
is the extensive research conducted for case development and the creation of primers for instruction about the future of work from undergraduate classes to executive education. We’ve also developed the second-year MBA course View Details