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- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
strategic leader for us,” says retired Ernst & Young CEO Jim Turley, former chair of the Catalyst board. “She thinks big and pushed us to do the same.” At the heart of everything Ilene Lang has accomplished... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Molly Welch
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I worked for several years at Google in marketing and public policy roles, first related to corporate social responsibility initiatives and subsequently to emerging technologies. In my View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
adopt the innovation later. Since innovators are the first to adopt and are more likely to influence others, they do not need to be influenced. However, organizations should harness their influence, using targeted communication to... View Details
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
of delivering effective patient care. Then you need to make sure that the incentives physicians face do not run counter to their using the most effective approach for a given patient. Making all of this happen may require physicians to... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
growth, much as earlier product extensions had in previous years.7 Just as Firestone's managers could easily interpret Goodyear's introduction of belted bias technology using their traditional strategic framework, the existing processes... View Details
- Profile
Jay Bhandari
of his selection tests, where dozens of candidates had to swim together across a pool at night without visibility. Short on breath and under time pressure, many would attempt to exit the pool as quickly as possible. However, a select few... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Home for External Relations
five-story building at 230 Western Avenue (see map). "We're excited about the move, which has allowed us to consolidate our operations and to help provide additional faculty office space on campus," notes ER executive director James C.... View Details
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
was mostly on the bench. I took advantage of this time to take coding classes and read textbooks about data analytics, and before long had a strong technical skillset which was invaluable to the team. During that time, I also built strong... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
not exist previously—a year after the project ended. Today, he is CEO and managing director of Godrej Consumer Products, the group's largest and most profitable company. Godrej consultant Nathani-Menzies calls the hire "revolutionary for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
undertaken in 1966 as cofounder of Cleveland's Hough Area Community Development Corporation (HADC). "In the summer of 1970," de Rothschild related, "I spent time with Frank in Cleveland, and it was then that I realized what a great leader... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
managers from 20 firms to gather best practices of the companies that do collaborative innovation correctly. They also charted how global teamwork can misfire. The research built upon expertise developed in Wipro's own collaboration experiences View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online
course's enrollment deadline. If an award or payment is only provided upon course completion, you may not use it to pay for an HBS Online course, unless the award directly reimburses you. Federal financial aid, except for eligible... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
today, as China and to a lesser extent India are providing huge capacity additions to the global markets." Still others suggested that the benefits to society of productivity increases might depend on what they are used for. As Sean... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
challenges for women and determine what the telling of these stories can teach us about how we tell our own. CASE STUDY Linking Purpose to Profits: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Professor Krishna Palepu No additional materials available +... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
Fountain House provides that alternative for over a thousand people in New York alone." De Chazal hopes his new schedule at Morgan Stanley will allow him to sharpen his focus on others. "We live in an incredibly rich country during a time... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
well have been stifled or ignored by a jaded trade press corps, used to handouts from established giant firms," Land biographer Victor McElheny argues. "Instead, instant photography was unveiled at a scientific conference as a technical... View Details
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Ignacio Lartirigoyen
After applying his skills at ExxonMobil – "a very exciting time because of the company's size and its level of professionalism"– Ignacio moved to an agribusiness closer to his roots, Adecoagro, where he joined the planning team... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
documents trends in college and university endowment returns and investments in the United States between 1992 and 2005 using data on more than a thousand schools. Such endowments have generally performed well over this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
chance to thrive. Drawing on more than a decade of researching smashing successes and painful failures alike, Wasserman walks readers through the dilemmas that plague and challenge most new entrepreneurs, starting with pre-founding career dilemmas: Is this the right... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
center—moms who will no longer have to spend hours commuting each day, and who will return home in the evening to find their kids crafting projects using the 3D printer in the building’s Teen Shack. Despite the stop-work order, Dlodlo is... View Details