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J. Chadbourn Bolles
created an impressive record of market value growth and appreciation. His foresight in targeting the international market enabled Chadbourn to continue to post sales increases despite the downturn in U.S. demand for hosiery products. View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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Arjun Goyal
truly global, and in entrepreneurship, it’s not just limited to software.” In business, in action, in the i-lab Arjun has already applied the HBS network and resources to his own enterprise, Foresight Pharmaceuticals, a start-up dedicated... View Details
Morse G. Dial
Dial was instrumental in the growth and diversification of Union Carbide. He strongly supported research and development, and it was with this foresight that Union Carbide was able to become a leading producer of chemicals and plastics. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Christine A. Hefner
gain popularity. Though magazine sales have stalled, Hefner’s foresight to bet on cable and Internet outlets has given the company a new avenue for growth and profitability. View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
This is one of her later ones in the Gamache series, but a good read whether or not one has read earlier ones.” —Don Licking (MBA 1962), on Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny Quoted “We live in a world where foresight is increasingly... View Details
Monroe J. Rathbone
As CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Rathbone is credited for making Jersey Standard into an international company. Seeing problems with an ever increasing dependence on oil from the Middle East, Rathbone had the foresight to push his... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
fruitless attempts to access information during a stint with KPMG Peat Marwick in Poland and while working with an economic reform team in Russia. Mueller credits his brother George, his business partner and technology expert, with the View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
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Jamal Motlagh
You analyze data without much foresight into the outcome, and you arrive at a plan of action you're prepared to debate in class. We challenge each others' underlying beliefs and assumptions, and push back in a safe environment."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
“If we maintain our desperate focus on growth, we will run out of everything and crash.” Yet Grantham also held out hope, noting, “With foresight and thoughtful planning, this suffering is completely avoidable.” View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to commercialize the semiconductor, the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
Colombian octogenarian Mariano Ospina-Hernandez (MBA 1951) is the resolute visionary behind an ambitious proposal to improve and expand the country’s transportation infrastructure. His foresight could open new possibilities for... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
Summing Up Respondents to the December column produced such a lengthy list of reasons why managers fail to act on their predictions that it is a wonder that organizations are ever able to respond with the foresight needed to avert... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
banking and financial advisory services for corporations, the government, and private individuals, and consistently showed foresight in its ability to recognize the potential of emerging industries, from retail to aviation to high tech.... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
potential influences. Instead, Stone's lack of foresight caused it to become enmeshed in an adversarial, multiparty process that ultimately failed. When interviewed for a Harvard Business School case, Stone executive Jerry Freeman likened... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
to whom the traditional in-residence MBA might not otherwise be accessible. But it extends also, in the eyes of respondents, to those onsite programs with the foresight to take advantage of the unique capabilities inherent in their online... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
those focused on innovation, and those focused on new venture startup. Since Cantillon's time, many arguments have persisted about the risk-bearing aspect of entrepreneurship. Many studies of entrepreneurs (including autobiographies) tend to focus on View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
for future generations of HBS students. “When our forefathers planned the original HBS campus, they had the foresight to realize that the residential component would be very important to the success of the School,” notes Angela Crispi... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
the innovation ecosystem, and their foresight and generosity will amplify our efforts to attract some of the world’s best talent to HBS and SEAS.” In supporting the MS/MBA in Engineering Sciences, the gift from Nunnelly and Dupré will... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
deal with change, turmoil, the unexpected? All too often we have been surprised by our lack of foresight close to home. The traditional family structure has broadened to accommodate divorce, single parenthood, common-law partnerships, and... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
believes the key to making better strategic choices in turbulent markets lies in understanding the level of uncertainty faced in a given situation. 20/20 Foresight provides a framework for learning to separate what can be known from what... View Details