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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
bottom-line performance limits the conversation. The more helpful conversation to have—the more impactful one—is about the conditions under which we can leverage the benefits of having a diverse set of employees. BG: Diversity is about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
encapsulates what I have learned about American business history during three decades of research and teaching the subject." Highlights from the conversation follow. How did you choose the seven men profiled in your book? First of all, I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
with each other about the case, and as they evolve and as they change, the richness of that conversation also continues to evolve. FO: If there is a challenge in the program, it’s that students can be almost untethered to the realities of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
vibrant, beating hub. I think the greatest challenge for some of us is that there are so many ideas—how do you pick and choose the innovations that you actually are going to be able to work on? + ONLINE web-only content Hear more of this View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
proposition and pricing because the Wellthy solution is so much more robust? The Answers: Like many startups, Wellthy is trying to change the conversation and the basis of competition in its market—with its product, its positioning, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
friends, a couple. Their conversation is interspersed with videos of a Cineplanet theater in a Lima mall and interviews with Cineplanet employees. “It looks a lot like the way we brainstorm around the dinner table,” observes one student... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
marketing, and strategy. Getting those various individuals, each with their own expertise, to speak to each other comfortably is a necessity. “The inherent training and the day-to-day lives of people inside of each of those verticals are very distinct, so unless you... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
this second part of our Skydeck conversation with Immelt, we talk about the trials of the financial crisis, the loneliness of life at the top, and what his post-GE career in education and venture capital have taught him about the future... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
solution. “It’s critical to think through the culture that you’re building, your approach to meetings and asynchronous work, and how leaders are going to set the behavioral tone from the top. This is an opportunity to shift the View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
School in the fall of 2008, he had been a US Army captain serving in Iraq, but it wasn't until his second year at HBS that a chance conversation directed him to a Veterans Administration program that ultimately paid for his MBA. Motivated... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
different from previous generations. Is there something that has made it especially, to co-op your term, "cracked" or broken? Gerald: That's a great question, and I think something deep and real and profound has happened with my generation. We're recording this View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
Marimar Pérez-Riera (MBA 1994), copresident of the HBSLAA, who presented the award to Veron during a fireside chat. "It was incredible to have her there, and our conversation was powerful. The award was new this year and was a big hit."... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
President George W. Bush (MBA ’75), was in Europe on other business. But in several sessions, alumni expressed considerable interest in making the move from the private sector into public service and discussed how the private sector could work more effectively with... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
scope of his thinking: You can’t talk about success and strategy without also understanding purpose, they said. Gulati was skeptical. But he decided to explore it, and in conversations with leaders like Blackrock CEO Larry Fink and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
learning, says Palepu. “We underutilized the global diversity of this community when the entire curriculum consisted of only US cases. All the international students were silenced because they just thought, ‘Well, this is how the cutting edge works,’ ” he recalls. “But... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
consulting industry, cutting-edge thinkers in the 1990s began to ask why a similar approach couldn’t be applied to the social sector. The conversation took root in places like HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative; Bain; the Edna McConnell... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Enhances the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals,” showed the approach to be more effective than ads that just used scare tactics, such as the image of a coffin.) “Ten minutes into the conversation Jim said, ‘Lee, I get it. I know exactly what... View Details