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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
offer. Shaich will remain as CEO of the operation. “Most people [here], they’ve been pushed to think in ways they’ve never been pushed to think about before,” Shaich told the Globe. Though those lessons add up to good management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its focus on strategic priorities.... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
(a representative sample of the School’s green business leaders) are doing just that. — The HBS Green Business Alumni Association welcomes new members and volunteers. A Growth Business Sykué Bioenergia Power Couple: Ana Maria Diniz and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
On the final day of Africa Rising, a course about business in Africa taught by Professor Caroline Elkins, Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s (MBA 1980) emotions were running high. “I had that sense of accomplishment when you know you’ve managed to say... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
"We design them here, but the labor is cheaper in Hell." © Drew Dernavich/Condé Nast Publications/Cartoonbank.com Today, many people are looking to high-technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
Women's sports is one of the hottest growth sectors in the business of sports. A case in point is the National Soccer Alliance (NSA), a new women's professional soccer league currently in the startup phase. With exhibition games, special... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
their research. That encouraged them to move ahead and form the company. "Small businesses are the engine of job growth in this country," says Callaghan. "The JOBS Act is an attempt to facilitate capital flows in a number of ways. Of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
gained broad support from a wide range of influential economists, lawmakers, and interest groups. In March 2008, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (MBA ’70) proposed that the Federal Reserve be empowered as a super regulator to seek out and View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
that? So I was with a colleague and I said, "Hey, do me a favor. I can see the bag of flour here. Get a picture of me with this flour so I can figure out how to make this pizza." And as she's doing that, the manager comes up and he says,... View Details
- 30 Jul 2025
- News
Play with Purpose
standards he employs stewarding people's capital, first as the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, and now as the founder and CEO of 26North. The Commanders aren't Harris's first experience with sports franchises. He's also managing... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters of... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
time in every dimension," and last year she invited Wood to take on the nonprofit's COO position. Wood came to the not-for-profit agency with decades of management experience in finance and publishing. "I was very excited for her vision,"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
Shift provides solid strategies for integrating an ethical perspective into management practice. Paine argues that companies need to go beyond the codes of conduct and values statements that have become ubiquitous in recent decades and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
After HBS, I went to Starbucks where I loved the company and it showed. My work was featured in the press and Howard Schultz had me present to his board. Yet my male manager gave me a “meets expectations” review for weakness in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
to promote the growth of the city's economy, was asked by the city and state to take over management of these donations. In turn, an NYCP subsidiary, the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF), took charge of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News