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- 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
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
strategic and general management issues facing service organizations as well as the management of service in manufacturing companies. The multidisciplinary unit focuses on three functions critical to the effective delivery of service:... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
sector deliberating the global business imperative for sustainability in the face of climate change. The Institut de France “Sustainability is becoming a major topic in companies, and especially in Europe,” says François-Xavier Oliveau... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
equipment to these front-liners in 12 provinces.” Angie G. Flaminiano (AMP 196) President, NutriAsia, Inc.: “In alliance with Project Ugnayan, a collaboration effort among 59 private business establishments,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
electromagnetically powered, single-stage-to-orbit vehicles that use an external energy source—microwaves beamed from strategically placed locations on earth. “Chemical rockets have been putting man into space for the past 50 years, but... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
led him to start his own business selling produce. The next break came after a chance encounter with a clerk at a local library who gave him advice on how to apply for college and get funding. In 1997, Magwegwe completed his undergraduate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
man! — Rindge Leaphart (MBA 1997) I am a partner at a small but rapidly growing executive search firm. Back in the spring of 2010 we conducted a client survey that clearly pointed out a strategic imperative (and opportunity) for us to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
negotiation has become a key part of daily management. "Instead of being an important skill for special occasions - making deals and managing disputes - negotiation is increasingly a way of life for managers," notes James K. Sebenius, the School's Gordon Donaldson... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
five characteristics distinguish outstanding ventures. Most ventures will have only two or three of these when they come to us, so we work with the team to add the missing elements. The characteristics are technical excellence; outstanding management; View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
management education as a way of achieving that goal.” Over nearly two decades, SEI has developed from a visionary concept to a mainstay in the School’s mission of developing business leaders who are concerned not only with the bottom... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
interest,” notes Mills. “We like to be the capital that comes in to grow the business to the next level — build the next plant, make an acquisition, or expand the brand.” What makes Solera unique, she adds, is its research-intensive focus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
find an area where narrow AI is not having an impact,” says Seseri, which raises questions for business leaders in all sectors. How can e-commerce businesses benefit from artificial intelligence in the near... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
appreciate that legal matters are an integral and manageable part of doing business. Organizationally, managers need to facilitate frequent, two-way communication with legal counsel and provide them with enough business information to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
interaction—enthusiastic gamers, a largely oblivious and skeptical public, and occasionally supportive video game publishers who saw marketing opportunities, but didn’t dream bigger. It wasn’t until the 1998 release of StarCraft, a game of warring alien factions with a... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
Leimsider has helped Safe Passage clarify its strategic goals. “We have a very specific understanding of what our job is. Our mission here is not simply to do as much good as we can, but to completely eliminate the problem in our area.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
China with a gold rush mentality, without doing the thoughtful analysis and planning they would have done elsewhere," she observes. Franklin notes that she earned the goodwill of many Chinese business and government officials during her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
History Matters
citing examples of business success stories that were launched in rocky times, including Estée Lauder and Microsoft. Koehn offered several bits of advice, such as “learn from your customers,” “use customer information to respond quickly... View Details