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- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
actually think about years and half a decade or more. What excites me is the fact that we are building an institution and a culture of innovation in an environment of a technology company and doing that from... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
distributes grass-fed beef and other sustainably produced meats to customers across New York and New England. “And by that, I mean companies that have anything interesting to say about social and environmental impacts.” Cummings has a few... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s heard from View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
capture an audience most completely. That is the most gratifying feeling.” Jim McNerney (MBA 1975) Retired Chairman, The Boeing Company “I was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the oldest of five. I don’t know if there’s something to... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
irrelevant,” the prime minister says, simultaneously making an entrance and scoring major marital points. Mareva Grabowski Mitsotakis (left) spent a dozen years in investment banking before launching Zeus+Dione, a line of clothing and accessories that showcase Greece’s... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
house Western companies happens in conditions that wouldn’t pass an OSHA inspection. Clean drinking water and indoor plumbing are a luxury, and slums line main roads. For many of the country’s 1.1 billion residents, life still exists... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
As one of Howard Schultz’s first hires at Starbucks, she spent 20 years revolutionizing the coffee marketplace, eventually running its Asia-Pacific division. At Lululemon, she helped the yoga brand become a $10 billion–plus business by orchestrating its global... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
of thing, that is also, culturally important. And she, yes, had a basket making business, but those women who were making baskets with her, among them were survivors of the genocide and women whose husbands had perpetrated the genocide.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms In their new book Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch and former Bain & Company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
high consideration. Spiritual and ethical factors are often viewed as separate “silos,” but these core values pervasively shape, bind, and energize the economic culture. Long-term policy and growth must emanate from—and reflect—the aspirations, character, spirit, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
this culture of psychological safety and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business by Sunil Gupta HBR Press Despite the widespread threat of disruption, many large View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
A caring company culture is directly related to how an employee is going to show up for the customer. Our employees are our brand, so we try to create an environment where they can be who they really are and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
and fir, but with an oddly shaped pockmark in the middle where a patch of cedars has been logged. Their replacements have not yet reached the height of their elder peers. Eamer was born in Nanaimo, located across the Strait of Georgia from Vancouver, the son of a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
business in Fargo, North Dakota, from a culture in which “my high-school principal thought anything east of the Mississippi was communistic,” Goldberg recalls. But as it happened, the sister of a neighboring farmer was Ada Comstock, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
innovative new programs, such as the club's "Books for Breakfast" series, which features authors from the cutting edge of academia and business. HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter kicked off the program last year with Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
tractor-tanker into Marcia Rhodes’s stopped car: horrible medical traumas, an unending financial struggle, a daughter’s deep depression and alienation, and endless battles against insurance companies and an uncaring legal system. Spinoza... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
with their yellow Lab, half a dozen chickens, and a few sheep. While Adams has kept his hand in the business world through Vineyard Ventures, a small, private equity fund that has invested in companies as far-flung as Chile and China,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services