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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Real Skills for Real Jobs with Real Success by Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Viking Adult) As a Big Brother, Chertavian saw how many young, disadvantaged, yet motivated workers were stranded at the bottom of the job ladder. In 2000, he... View Details
- Profile
Rob Casper
through four different product ideas, then dropped them,” Rob says. “Our big idea, which the client liked, was a video game application that would appeal to the right people: adolescent girls.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
Video Embed Cryoocyte’s home lab in action With ocean fisheries increasingly failing to meet global demands—about 85 percent of them are classified as depleted or worse, according to the World Bank—the future of the food supply will depend on fish farming. But... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
assessing which management practices and processes in an organization could benefit from experimentation? It is important to understand that experimentation matters to managing change and uncertainty. A: It is important to understand that experimentation matters to... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services, business services, telecommunications, and consumer products. It was during a product line analysis for a pet... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
historians—not just modern business gurus—if you're interested in mastering the power of strategy and the power of execution in your job." CURRENT READING Bush at War, by Bob Woodward A.G. Lafley has been credited with turning around Procter & Gamble since taking over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
girls in a village near Beirut. Today, with Bistany at the helm, SABIS educates some 62,000 students in 60 K–12 nondenominational schools (including 15 in the United States) in 15 countries on four continents, and is hoping to enroll more... View Details
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
It's no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about the complexities and conflicts... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree.... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
pivotal concepts I learned at HBS was how so many other industries deeply think about the customer’s needs, and how they can achieve those needs in the fewest and most-simple, well-designed steps. I’m thinking if I could harness the things I’m learning here, that could... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
Kenneth Salas (MBA 2015), pictured In January, 50 HBS MBA students and 200 alumni and other business leaders gathered to discuss the business of artificial intelligence (AI). Over the course of four days, the hybrid global cohort analyzed... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
skyward above the flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site’s several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future — and on a... View Details
- Profile
Aimmy Asavatevavith
hand, she found that Thailand was not necessarily a welcoming environment for speaking as freely as a leader may want. “I came from a culture where it's not encouraged to talk back to those who are more senior than you.“ Four years into... View Details
Keywords: Retail/Hospitality
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
foundation for the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, now home to 35 faculty members whose intellectual output over the past decade notably includes 102 books and 1,231 cases. (For more HBS entrepreneurship facts, see article) No issue on entrepreneurship would be... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
Datar." Alumni were energized to be back together in person again at the event, which was cohosted by the School, the HBS Club of South Florida. The gathering took place at the Four Seasons Palm Beach Resort and featured a breakfast... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
but for the team's work process and ultimately the client—that the experiment was expanded to more and more of BCG's teams. Four years later, over nine hundred BCG teams from thirty countries on five continents had participated. Sleeping... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
What is interesting about the Internet phenomenon is that about three or four years ago, there was a big time lag—as much as a year or more—between when a business idea was applied in the U.S. and abroad.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
Dean Kim B. Clark with the assistance of four secondyear students, was part of the required curriculum for first-year MBA students. Merck's Ray Gilmartin has overseen the distribution of his company's river-blindness drug, Mectizan, to... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
opportunity, to get engaged. At the Kumbh Mela there was a central administration for the festival, much as there would be for a big state fair in the United States. It worked in coordination with the smaller religious groups as well as... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
I was 14. It was a completely foreign world from working-class Detroit where I grew up, and it was terrifying. In my first job out of business school, my boss affectionately nicknamed me “Pitbull” because I had a very high hit rate in sales. Then in the first View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint