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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
organization, which was renamed the Advisory Board Company in 1983, hit its stride by pioneering a membership model that charged clients an annual subscription rate for reports on the latest research on best practices. In 1997 the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
my classmates when I took a job at AcurA Corporation in Columbus, Ohio. But my Navy leadership experience quickly paid off. After five years, at the age of 32, I was promoted to vice president of sales and service for Western Europe. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
report we did on the IT industry. I could make real connections between my personal experiences in the field and the research that went with it. It was a huge ‘aha’ moment.” Head of the Class “Research is the engine that drives HBS. It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
The School’s Immersion Experience Programs challenge MBAs with active, cross-cultural learning situations around the globe, from Silicon Valley to China to Europe. An on-the-ground report from Mexico’s smallest villages and its... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
says Bond, who, prior to her Motown career, served as a financial analyst for several corporations and investment firms. "The songs are as fresh today as they were 25 years ago." Candace Bond, vice president of catalog development and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
leadership. The writing team also added business executive Kent Lineback, whose executive experience included roles at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Harvard Business School Publishing before he turned to executive coaching... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
back in your report cards. People were saying that, but eventually you become an excellent student, right? You excel academically. Was it something that changed or, or did you figure something out? What was driving you at that point?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era: Lessons from Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft by Alison Davis (MBA 1988) and Matthew Le Merle Cartwright Publishing Over the last 30 years a host of new technologies have begun... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
when an impulsive decision could have led to an explosion, or failure to tie in to a scaffolding could have resulted in a deadly fall, many reported that disregard for safety, fierce independence, and bravado had been badges of honor. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
parents than men. Women are eager to find a way to integrate their personal and professional lives. Electing to leave the corporate world and pursue entrepreneurial careers can make it even harder for women... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Harvard College in 1950 and working as a reporter for the Boston Herald, he signed on at the U.S. Department of Labor (he has been a card-carrying member of three different unions) for several years before making an unsuccessful run... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
relationships with bankers, customers, and suppliers necessarily do better? “It was a big surprise to us to find that companies with long-standing relationships don’t necessarily do better,” said Oberholzer-Gee. In fact, Chinese firms that had foreign partners View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
554, with billings for 2006 estimated at $1 billion. The agency’s client list now includes brands such as Volkswagen, Burger King, and Virgin Atlantic, among others. “The business I loved is the business we’re in now — being completely View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Last Christmas, many of the headlines spelled out trouble in toyland. FAO Schwarz sunk deeper into bankruptcy, KB Toys was having a hard time making ends meet (and filed Chapter 11 in January), and Toys “R” Us, which closed its Kids “R” Us and Imaginarium divisions,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh contract and is... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
critical opinions about the company’s management and wary of a corporate takeover, 26-year-old Warwick launched a successful takeover bid that was worth about $1.5 billion in US dollars. Just three years after Warwick’s takeover, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
much as it would have even five years ago is: Do we need to do this at all? MK: I think a lot of the reports that are, for instance coming out of the IPCC and other places now are helping to move the needle on people understanding that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Barksdale Group and former CEO of Netscape; Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM; and Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc. Representatives from top venture-capital and consulting firms joined a diverse mix of View Details