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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
SCHOLAR, WRITER, TEACHER: Levitt, in a photo from 1983. His research tranformed the study and practice of marketing. The HBS community lost a legendary member of its faculty June 28 when marketing expert Theodore (“Ted”) Levitt died at... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
their boards of directors. It's a tribute to his years of experience as a corporate and community leader and to his stature as one of Canada's most distinguished executives. Barford graduated from the University of Toronto at the age of... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
networking. For their first virtual GNN, the HBS Club of Southern California decided to go with a speed-dating style event. “Our alumni had indicated that they really wanted to meet new HBS alums in the area and it’s been hard to do in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Leadership in Motion
Activities such as building a community playground, running neighborhood associations, chairing the Scarsdale planning board, and serving locally as president of the League of Women Voters—all while starting and running her own consulting... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
marketing costs down by targeting the teens and twenties age group and by focusing — unlike some competitors — mainly on selling mobile phones. Although Phones 4u offers a range of mobile communication and entertainment equipment,... View Details
- 08 May 2023
- News
Face-to-Face Time with Your Employees Still Matters
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials, and talking to miners and local community members. “I needed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be performed from home, managers must learn how to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
build great companies, and Zensar's success is a visible result." He knows employees personally, and adapts his style to suit their individual needs, but still expects a high level of performance. As Zensar has acquired firms in Boston,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
Mariner Photo courtesy Jonathan Mariner “There aren’t many activities that bring a community together so quickly — without respect to age, race, and gender lines — as a winning ball club,” observes Jonathan D. Mariner, the veteran sports... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault
the health and well-being of the communities in which you and your employees live and work.” Chenault grounded his advice in what he called the “unspoken compact” between business and society at large. “Society allows us to operate in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Snappy Salute
Pinchuk: CEO of a precision-tool company doesn’t exactly fit the mold. As CEO of Snap-on, Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA ’76) heads a company that’s all about precise fits for its tools. But he himself is no standard-issue corporate chieftain. A longtime former resident of... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
community that ensures neighborhood families get enough to eat. Three of her five children work at her schools in Peru, while another son operates a preschool in New York City. “I’m an educator first and a businesswoman second,” Deza... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- News
What Leading with Optimism Really Looks Like
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
(Michael Hemment) Maddie may be HBS’s most popular study partner. The sweet-tempered therapy dog makes semiannual visits to Baker Library to provide much-needed stress relief during finals. Last December, an estimated 80 students and staff visited the cuddly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
takes a lot more than organizing your schedule to be productive. I wanted to discuss skills that have been critical in my own career. Communication is one—reading, writing, and speaking. Another is how you operate within your organization... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
way in one sector, you can move to the other rather easily. You’ve learned a style and a way of operating that is very useful in the other sector.” Whitehead concluded by saying, “The world cries out for leadership. In business, politics,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
communities and to do so with a great team of people. I saw that The Mission Continues was hiring, and because they do that type of work with veterans, the job seemed like a perfect fit. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity, so I reached... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
understand that our connected style can help us win all the deals we want and get all the business results our shareholders want, that’s really the broad concept here.” Nor has growth stymied the Vision View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
people could understand that luxury goods could come out of Africa." At the wine festival, Cuffe had met Vivian Brutus Kleynhans, one of seven sisters who produced a selection of various wines, aptly named Seven Sisters, each one designed to match the View Details