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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Taking a Stand. Patagonia pulled its advertising from Facebook and has recently renewed its call on other firms to boycott the platform until Facebook can make sure its products do no harm. What would taking a stand look like for your... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
their day-to-day lives,” says Horgan, the cofounder and CEO of VAL Health, a consulting firm that deploys behavioral economics to create “nudges” in health care to improve health outcomes. “So it was both... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
much that companies can do to reassure and help employees with this transition, she adds. First, it’s crucial for CEOs and management to be firm that nonnative speakers don’t have a problem. All employees have to be invested in working... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
offered by his parents, who, he says, "taught me the value of extending myself and working hard." Bines's forays into the unfamiliar began just after his graduation from Bates College. After serving as a student intern for the Manhattan-based public relations View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Organizational Behavior Over the past four years, Sheila Lirio Marcelo's alarm has rung at 4:00 most mornings, rousing her to start her day as a student at both Harvard's Business and Law Schools, a part-time consultant in Cambridge, and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
address more specific health conditions that can improve with behavior change. The Entrepreneurial Company of the Year award was launched by the HBSANC in 1979 to honor entrepreneurial firms that are making... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
escape denial. But there are telltale signs of it in an organization. And if you don’t spot it, you can’t fight it. Ask yourself: 1. What happens to the bearer of bad news? Does your firm “shoot the messenger”? Doing so doesn’t change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
met for a catered lunch in a room next to Welch's office on the 53rd floor of the GE Building at Rockefeller Plaza. "We talked nonstop," says Sanders, who spent his summer in Boston at the investment management firm of Gannett Welsh &... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
whole technology landscape is going, how related firms are progressing, and how its work fits into that context.” He also cites public policy issues and government involvement; intellectual property questions; longer time horizons; and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd AMP), former head of global banking at FleetBoston, to lead... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. Tripsas notes, “Whenever a firm introduces a truly novel product, it has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
Sometimes it pays to be nearly invisible. Just ask Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983). He heads one of the most successful media and telecommunications investment firms you’ve probably never heard of — Providence Equity Partners. “My own mother... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
second grade. A lunchtime “Beyond the Job Bank” session in Spangler Auditorium with Jodi R.R. Smith, president of “etiquette consulting” firm Mannersmith, taught me otherwise. Smith, whose advice has appeared in the Wall Street Journal,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Curb Your Overconfidence
an article appearing in the January issue of Negotiation, an HBS Publishing newsletter. While overconfidence is a fundamental human bias, in the workplace it can lead to adverse consequences, says Bazerman. He poses this real-world dilemma: “You are the chief legal... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies
Multinational firms are increasingly mandating a common language—typically English—to gain efficiencies and enhance collaboration overall. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley has discovered, however, that merely mandating a common language... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
the world, both for the better and for the more challenging,” says Lemmon, who wrote The Dressmaker while working at global investment management firm PIMCO. “I want to tell stories that have implications for the broader community, and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, won the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published that year. Christensen is currently head of the required General Management course. Prior to... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Leading the way in sustainable style
pro-environmental policies are not only a social good, she says. They are also money savers that helped Esquel weather the economic downturn. Now she wants to share her company’s successful strategies with the industry through sustainability conferences and factory... View Details