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- 23 May 2019
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Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Los Angeles, California 1968 Earns BS, Systems Engineering, US Naval Academy 1985 Earns MS, Operations Research, US Naval Postgraduate School 1987 Receives Stockdale Award... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s crumbling infrastructure and its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
fundamental problem. The Medicare prescription drug program that went into effect last year bars the federal government from negotiating with drug companies over the prices seniors pay. The new Democratic majority in Congress has vowed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
worldwide, once employed 600,000 Americans alone and estimates it will employ only 86,000 in its U.S. operations by 2008. And in another telling numbers game, highly profitable Toyota has announced it will produce 9.06 million cars... 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 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
of Severodvinsk, Russia, Natalia Mlotok has witnessed the stark effects of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev’s program of economic, political, and social restructuring. Located on the White Sea in northern Russia, Mlotok’s hometown was built... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
the world? And how do we make sure that our students, when they graduate, are equipped to operate in a global world?” Out of that questioning emerged a strategy that remains unique among US business schools. Beginning in the mid-1990s,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
shipment is little red scooters, with a 60-mile range. In the spring, we’ll have four-wheelers, with nice touches like windows you can operate and with a heater and that have a 60-mile range, and cost us less than those first scooters... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
Longtime GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) announced his retirement Monday, set to take effect on August 1. John Flannery, president and chief executive of GE Healthcare, was named Immelt’s successor. The announcement, the company noted, came... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
would have allowed a United Arab Emirates–based company to operate key U.S. seaports. “I support the President when I think what he is doing is right for our district,” Edwards says. In a sure sign of Edwards’s broad appeal, two... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
opportunities for executives to reap enormous personal gains from gaming accounting and SEC rules. If Enron-type breakdowns are to be avoided in the future, corporate boards need to keep in mind seven propositions that collectively address the potentially perverse... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
an executive’s pay is in line or out of line with performance over a long period of time, like 10 years.” With its benchmarking, the model helps companies and their investors know if pay and performance are aligned. If improvement is needed, it can help identify the... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5 percent of the solar radiation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
based on diary evidence that a subject actually did creative thinking that day, not on his or her self-evaluation.) The diary findings also showed a positive carry-over effect in creativity and productivity, one day and even two days... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
promote, in word and deed, the salutary effects of entrepreneurship. In keeping with that objective, in October 1945, Professor Sumner H. Slichter, the first HBS-based professor to be named a University Professor, wrote an article for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
integrators, and leaders must embrace a new mindset in which marketing is viewed as an enterprise-wide responsibility. Marketing Moves: A New Approach to Profits, Growth, and Renewal. The Internet, globalization, and hyper-competition are forcing companies to redefine... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
intensified as well. "In the last fifteen years," Tufano says, "competition has centered on the most effective means of distributing products; on the quality, immediacy, and depth of information made available to consumers; and on the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
(subtitled How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership) includes new material intended to guide fledgling managers through specific operational issues, such as dealing with organizational politics, influencing peers and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
matter to leave to tech departments, no matter how good they may be,” warns HBS assistant professor Robert D. Austin. “That’s because, more than being a technical problem, achieving cyber security is an operational issue that requires... View Details