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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
emphasizes. Pencils and pens are more inspiring. “Look at an artist, an architect; they will always draw the first lines by hand.” For learning. Studies show that students who take notes by hand retain more information and understand it... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
package it in a way that’s consumable?” One easy way to do this: Measure the flashy stuff. A program called Statcast calculates hitters’ launch angles and exit velocities on batted balls, while capturing spin rates for pitchers. Those metrics are also fed to the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
is in energy efficiency. She was an early employee of OPower, a software company that provides utilities, and their customers, better information about energy usage. After the company’s IPO, in 2014, Poindexter took a step back to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
photography business, DiCamillo observes, is on the threshold of change. "This industry is moving to digital," he explains. "Its evolution is being affected by the Internet, personal computers and peripherals, and the information... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
get the very best people. It’s a lateral organization, not hierarchical, so everybody’s in the information network equally. The commitment of its employees is unsurpassed, and the intensity, pace, and speed at which they work is something... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
what Smith describes as “an open body stance.” No crossed arms (common for women) and definitely no fidgety hands in pockets (common for men). Other tips? Approach with confidence. Introduce yourself with a piece of information that will... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
HBSAB Board Member John Carrier (MBA 2000). “This is a topic that many of our members are very interested in,” he says. “It was such a great case and everyone engaged with it.” HBSAB President David Harris (MBA 1984) adds that engaging and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
and economics who draw on data to inform managerial and policy decisions, they decided to see if they could use their skills to examine gun violence in America. Today, nearly seven years later, research conducted by Malhotra and Luca has... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
that view. As I shared the information from earlier interviews with subsequent interview- ees, they seemed relieved to learn that they were not alone. I started asking them if they would like to meet each other, and they were... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
home. A discussion of world events would follow. "We were very well informed as kids," remarks Wyss, who maintains an active interest in policy and geopolitical issues. That knowledge of the world came in handy in the early years of... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
regional issues. I tried to get better informed on general world issues and solicited suggestions from former ambassadors. When it came time to leave, the President gave me a nice send-off. What do you do during a typical week? My day... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
Alison Tepper Singer When her daughter was diagnosed with autism, Alison Tepper Singer's life changed both personally and professionally. The 1993 HBS grad had been planning to build on her career as a TV news producer—first at WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia, and later at... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. For more information or to find archived episodes, visit alumni.hbs.edu/skydeck. View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
which represents close to $100 billion in annual consumer sales. A new report from the Grocery Manufacturers Association/Boston Consulting Group cites “click and collect” as one of the “biggest changes ever in the US retail landscape.” Interested in more View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
Lawrence S. Kramer (MBA '74), who spent twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor for publications such as the Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner, was himself in the news last January. Kramer's financial information... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Rossotti Courtesy HBS Press When Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64) was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, it was the most feared and loathed of all federal government agencies. People told him that he was taking on a no-win situation. But... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
1999). She adds that three attendees at a time went to virtual breakout rooms for 10 minutes and then returned to main group for larger discussion. “This was repeated three times and everyone agreed for us to share contact information so... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley