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- 01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
saw in his company's entry-level hires. When he retired in 1992, he decided to do something about it by running for the Seattle school board. "If you want to change public education," he says, "you have to get inside the system." When he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Each day, the chaos that is one sliver of modern India arrives in the form of 13,000 phone calls to the tranquil 37-acre campus of the Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) outside Hyderabad in the southern state of Andhra... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Scott P. Mason Remembered
and was appointed chair of the Finance area at HBS. For many years, Mason taught the School's Capital Markets elective. To keep that course relevant during the 1980s, a period of sweeping changes in the field of finance, he led a massive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
juggernaut.” While much has changed for Goldman and other investment firms in the last year, its rise to prominence — driven by extraordinary individuals — is a matter of record. The following excerpts from The Partnership look at two of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
recent research has focused on the issues facing financial institutions in the Internet age. "Banks have often been slow to adopt technology and to change what they do," she observes. "But the competition... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating reality. It was a great way to give... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
March 2016 We can achieve presence when we need it, Cuddy argues, through a combination of body postures, behavior, and mindset, which activate chemical changes in the body. Expansive “power poses” can cause testosterone levels to rise... 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 plans.” Fieldhouse says the Dandelion... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
companies, and later served as a director at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, LLP, before joining Genzyme in 1997. While at Hale and Dorr, she assumed leadership roles on the boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
Lafley (MBA 1977) convinced her to join the firm. “He saw something in me and encouraged me,” says Bence. “He became my mentor, and I never would have made that connection without HBS. The School changed everything for me.” She went on to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
address, "We don't use the word 'revolution' lightly, loosely, or often at Harvard." Yet as he and almost every other conference speaker went on to affirm, the radical changes being effected by today's information technology amount to... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
other Harvard schools and seven Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals in contributing to the work of the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI). Launched in April, the HSCI has a goal of moving from the laboratory to the clinic the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
Harvard Business Review article “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?” and then with his 1989 book, The Managerial Mystique, Zaleznik questioned a longstanding corporate paradigm. His assertion that managers are dedicated to maintaining order and efficiency— while... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
people who make their living studying things like monetary policy and market design? So she called her old friend and colleague, Stephanie Hurder (PHDBE 2013), who was ready for a change after spending three years at Boston Consulting... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
society we thought that would be enough. Boris Groysberg: Our expectation for the 21st century was that it was only a matter of time before we reached gender parity in leadership. But so far the changes have been disappointing. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Super Bowls a day for sixteen days." Track Records and a Marathon Sprint Frazier notes that for such an endeavor to succeed, the ability to rapidly build a cohesive entity - forming an institution - is of paramount importance. The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
Change (2000). He led the development of the School's first required course in human resource management in the 1980s and then cowrote Managing Human Assets (1984), the first book to frame human resource management as a general management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
orientation that manifests itself in investing, in business decision-making, and in our politics. Educational and philanthropic endowments, for example, with institutional time horizons that necessarily span centuries, invest their funds... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
who want to change the way health care is delivered. In 2010, she founded HealthTech Capital, a group of private investors interested in health tech startups. JULY 16 Héctor Masoero (PMD 58, 1989), chair of UADE, a private nonprofit... View Details