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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Field remain strong. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the HBS Canadian Initiative, a program conceived by former HBS Dean John H. McArthur in part to enable a geographically and culturally diverse group of qualified Canadian students to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
Okeho, a town of about 2,500, before his family moved to Wisconsin so his parents could attend graduate school. When he was eight, the family returned to Nigeria, where Gbadegesin experienced culture shock in reverse. “I didn't fit in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
moments of cultural snafus. But no, I really believe that we are more similar than dissimilar as human beings. So with that mindset, I slowly started chipping away and engaging with all the stakeholders across the organization and shared... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
celebrate his graduation, he remembers feeling the acute dichotomy between the go-go culture of HBS and the words of a tribal elder: “He was translating back and forth in Omaha,” Keen recalls, “and he said, ‘From what people have told me,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal
“Discovering different cultures is a way of life for me,” says Monsignor Frederick M. Dolan (MBA 1978), the Vicar for Canada of the Prelature of Opus Dei. After several years working abroad, Dolan settled in Montreal in 1998 and recently... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
didn’t exist before.” Growing basketball on the continent entails addressing the logistics and marketing challenges inherent in trying to scale any operation across 54 countries. It also poses a deep cultural challenge—the kind where the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
maintained their vision of an intrinsically shared humanity and the environmental responsibility found at the core of Indigenous mythology. Building off a deep personal connection to the history and mythology of the First Peoples of the Americas, Taylor Keen gives... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
and social benefits.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “It's extremely challenging and extremely rewarding. The obvious communication and cultural sensitivities can't be overcome by anything except time and effort. Also, the legal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
their circumstances. In MacDonald’s world, business — with its repetitive soullessness, automation, ceaseless drive for profit, and backstabbing corporate culture — contributes to the angst that drives these men to self-destruction. The... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
consultant.” It’s easy to see how students would relate to 35-year-old Kahn as he takes on CEO Bill Boyd’s challenge to help revitalize Muzak’s image with clients and its corporate culture on a budget of just $900,000. “Since Muzak’s name... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
transformation, Bloomberg reports, Higuchi is tasked with reconfiguring company culture: During his first week back at Panasonic, Higuchi got a culture shock of his own. At an internal meeting, he took a random chair, only to be informed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
aspects are mutually reinforcing. You write a lot about corporate culture in companies such as Zappos. Why is culture so important? Morriss: A culture exists to influence how... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
In the years after Keith Ferrazzi (MBA 1992) published Never Eat Alone, he confessed some reluctance in being labeled “the networking guy.” “But 20 years after writing that first book, and after coaching thousands of teams, I’ve finally recognized there’s a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
create the conditions that allow everyone else in an organization to realize their own potential and power. When done well, as the authors explain in the following excerpt, leadership is about creating an impact that endures even in your absence. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Christian Bjelland
operational expenses and new buildings.” Mindful that Norway’s Department of Culture will focus on attendance figures, Bjelland says the museum is working hard “to create excitement in the public space we occupy.” He notes that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
about the field of manufacturing, Union describes the pure pleasure of making a tangible, useful product. “Manufacturing offers so many analytical and intellectual challenges,” she adds. “It’s extremely satisfying to build a corporate View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Turkey is both European and Anatolian, and since the days of the Ottoman Empire, most Turks have not claimed any kinship to the Arab world. As an American who has lived in Turkey for twenty years, I have been reminded several times by the Turkish people that “we are... View Details
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
‘We Don’t Leave When Things Go Wrong’
Christopher Rodrigues (MBA 1976) is chair of the British Council, an international organization for arts, cultural relations, and educational opportunities operating on six continents and in more than 100 countries. In this video... View Details