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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
none other than Battery Ventures. — Laura Singleton (MBA '88) Further information on upcoming Springboard 2000 events is available at the organization's Web site, www.springboard2000.org. View Details
- 29 May 2013
- News
Harvard Business School Celebrates Class Day
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
should ensure that the right parties have been approached, in the right sequence, to address the right interests, under the right expectations, and face the right consequences of walking away if there is no deal. Paths to Power by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
U.S. hospitals. From smelting plants to accounting offices to hospital pharmacies, he's seen the technique pay off. "If companies learn to treat every problem as an idiosyncrasy and approach solving it as an experiment," says Spear, "they can always make progress." -... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
differing financial norms. "If you understand the religious principles underlying these restrictions, you can sometimes create contracts or other arrangements that accommodate them," he said, citing leases as one example of a familiar financial tool deemed fully... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
check” with higher-ups, peers, and former subordinates to get a clear picture of the candidate. In conclusion, Merck's Gilmartin noted, “So many times when people talk about ethics, they talk about the big things, but what you really need to worry about are the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
for this include the ten-year maturity of typical option awards, which allows a long window for value recovery, plus the relatively high volatility of many stocks with significant price drops, making a similar rebound less far-fetched. "I'm not convinced the answer is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
and fewer stock-outs, regardless of item price. "Retailers are shortsighted if they stock inventory by thinking only in terms of their own economics," says Bell. His findings offer the numbers to back up an intuitive assumption: stock what the customer wants and she... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
firms in front of the profit curve despite a high level of integration, Christensen, Raynor, and Verlinden assert. "To the extent a company like IBM maintains the flexibility to couple and decouple operations rather than irrevocably sell them off, it has an even... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
recap by the authors follows each account, noting the important principles it illustrates. Exercises are also included to spur creative thinking. The Heart of Change is a helpful package of fresh ideas for those looking to break new ground in their organizations. —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
MAYO: Since the 1970s, the MBA has become a necessary credential to pursue the inside track to corporate power. So much of what business schools teach is focused on making the right managerial decisions at a particular moment in time,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
accessible to people of all income levels. Zuboff and Maxmin state their aim as “the beginning of a conversation” challenging present assumptions about capitalism, commerce, and the logic of economic growth. — Laura View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
Palepu's own research has made them acutely aware of how critical a worldwide perspective can be. “It's a lot more work to build globally robust ideas,” Palepu remarks, “but by encouraging our faculty to do this, we can develop more valuable knowledge.” — View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
the groundwork for committee recommendations. Among them: enhance outreach efforts to promote the benefits of membership, especially among two groups not currently well represented — Executive Education alumni and recent MBA graduates.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA 1994), is making progress on recommendations to leverage existing resources and develop new ones to assist alumni with lifetime career development needs. Last fall, the board created an Executive Education Alumni Committee,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
The 2010 January Term break at HBS was no time to kick back for the 403 first- and second-year MBA students who signed up for the Immersion Experience Program (IXP). In search of the kind of deep understanding that can come only from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Initiative (SEI), they did just that. "Even the funding broke new ground," notes former SEI director Laura Moon. "John Whitehead provided staged investments based on meeting certain milestones. We now call that venture philanthropy." The... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Shaped American Business Leadership (Harvard Business Press, 2006), with Mayo and Laura Singleton (MBA ‘88), is a companion to In Their Time. Both are based on the Great American Business Leaders database... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
Photographs by Webb Chappell Now in its twelfth year, the annual student profiles feature has become something of a Bulletin tradition. As editors, we look forward every spring to meeting these outstanding members of the MBA graduating... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice