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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
and an oratorical competition, and she assigned homework, and she said, "Everybody's got to write a speech." And the topic was, "I'm the mayor now, and this is my new plan." At 11, I had never written a speech. I don't think I'd ever... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
the School had made a strategic decision to become more diverse. There were also a number of international students and people from West Point and the Navy Nuclear Sub program. I had a lot of respect for the military people and shared... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
and has contributed chapters to several books. Two articles he coauthored on real-estate finance won the Shattuck Award for the best article on real estate in 1967 and 1972. Hayes's MBA teaching assignments have included the electives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
second-year Managing Innovation course. He assigned all 105 students in his two sections to field projects with Ford, General Electric, NASA, and Nike. “Since the course is about innovation, the projects all involved areas in which the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Online Job Bank Debuts
bank’s listings include part-time work and temporary consulting assignments suitable for people at any career stage. The job bank plans to reach out to the Fortune 500 and other companies to inform them of its services and to increase its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
excitement and anticipation of new lives about to begin beyond Soldiers Field. The day’s program started with the conferring of the Student Association Faculty Awards for excellence in teaching. Associate Professor Rawi Abdelal (Business, Government, and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
(See chart.) The Financial Times and the Economist go global with their surveys, including schools in Europe and Asia. (Bloomberg Businessweek creates a separate list of the top international programs.) The FT emphasizes MBAs’ salary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
in Casablanca. For their project, the six HBS students assigned to work with BMCE Bank (now Bank of Africa) were asked to create a digital product to attract 18 to 24-year-olds to the bank’s services. Since BMCE already had existing... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
direction until after my divorce and remarriage in 1970. I finally found my stride working in internal audit, and after much moving around both domestically and overseas, I settled down in northeastern Illinois. My wife, DD, and I began... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
addition, he has held important administrative positions at the School, chairing Exec Ed's Advanced Management Program and its International Senior Managers' Program, as well as the MBA Program's Production and Operations Management unit... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
for high school followed by a summer in Spain. By her senior year of high school, the family had moved again, this time to Vancouver, Canada. It was the fourteenth school of her youth. That nomadic spirit instilled in Leger an interest in View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996. Her new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry (Jossey-Bass), analyzes and draws lessons from the factors that made one company — Baxter International — a standout in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
England and had studied for a year at St. Paul's, a prep school in New Hampshire, before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1954. In a system where career advancement could often be hindered by assignments outside Japan, he... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
running on different operating systems). "Our strategy is to use internally the kind of protocols the Internet uses outside the School," Upton notes. "We've built something called an 'intranet' using open protocols: no one company owns... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
international renown with the landmark article ‘Marketing Myopia.’” That Harvard Business Review article (published again in a 1975 HBR “classic” version) posed the famous question that has been pondered by generations of students and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about the relationships you foster within an organization. At the end of the case, the individual had not fostered his internal relationships well (not enough blue lines) and was fired from his job. At the time, I thought this was... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
will come as no surprise that some of the broader issues addressed last year have carried over; these may well be with us as we head into the 21st century! Committee assignments have been made around three broad issues: Information... View Details