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- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
during military conflicts. As countries such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom honor their veterans this month, Harvard Business School Professor Robert Simons reflects on how service during wartime shaped the executive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
held every four years, the Vendée Globe is the most grueling and dangerous prolonged competition on the planet. This year, thirty boats started and only eleven finished; Wilson came in ninth. At 58, the oldest skipper and the only American in this year’s race, Wilson... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
explore the possibility of using paramedics for certain tasks. The aim is to better understand patients' needs and their ability and willingness to pay. Working with the students will be Terry Kramer (MBA 1986), a veteran telecom... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
intellectual property arrangements are also necessary.” At the colloquium, Bowen’s colleague, Senior Lecturer Willy Shih, led a discussion titled “Emerging Models of Corporate Research,” which centered on case studies on Corning, IBM, and InnoCentive. A View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
veteran technology entrepreneur than a kid in a candy store. A lifelong techie, Levy learned to read by deciphering The Boys’ First Book of Radio and Electronics, a 1954 classic that gave step-by-step instructions for building a radio... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
a player at the beginning of his career, is another surprising success story. Here’s someone who looks like the kid from next door who mows your lawn, and he played like a veteran in a pivotal position under the toughest pressure in... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
reverse auction. In the case, GSK is hit with a potentially devastating suit and must hire a firm in time to respond. The recently hired managing attorney, Sophia Keating, grapples with GSK's approach. The GSK veterans assure her that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Commencement 2016 Address | About
to see you put your own mark on this tradition. Even when you leave here, remember to honor the work of all the people in your organization, and especially those who are seldom recognized. I have learned much about honor over many years of teaching a particular group... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
colleague, Senior Lecturer Willy Shih, led a discussion titled "Emerging Models of Corporate Research," which centered on case studies on Corning, IBM, and InnoCentive. A veteran of 27 years in industry, many of them in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
consumer technology - no matter how amazing or elegant - means nothing unless it is useful, convenient, and readily accepted by customers. The fact that his wife's MBA degree didn't ease the drudgery of tracking the family's finances gave Cook, a View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
as members of government, the business community, nonprofits, charities, and as volunteers and individual donors - have played both prominent and unsung roles in helping the city to get back on its feet. Says John S. Chalsty (MBA '57), a Wall Street View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Guilt-Free Recipe For Success and Satisfaction Veteran Hiring Leader’s Handbook by Peter A. Gudmundsson (MBA 1990) (BookBaby) Employers have a chance to get veteran hiring right from the start. This manual... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
the world Sixteen years ago, Elkins completed a dissertation on colonial-era Africa, which earned her a PhD in history from Harvard and ended up making history in the world. Based on years of extensive interviews with elderly Kenyans and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
CEO of Global Growth and Operations (GGO). In this new role, Rice was based in Hong Kong and in charge of GE's growth in regions outside the U.S. In March 2011, Jay Ireland, a 31-year GE veteran and corporate officer, was appointed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
low income individuals or veterans or women or LGBT people. We asked ourselves, ‘How do you bridge that gap?’” In September of 2021, then-New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio announced that BlocPower had won a $37 million contract to create... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the Apple II a viable business tool. Takeaways from Entrepreneurial Finance Each of the 10,000-plus veterans of Entrepreneurial Finance has his or her own list of lessons learned in the course. Here are just a few: Cash is king. More cash... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Dumbarton Oaks energy conference inspired by Energy Future. COURTESY ROBERT STOBAUGH An eighteen-year veteran of the energy and petrochemical industries who had left business to enter Harvard as a doctoral student in international... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
psychological safety tend to bounce back over time? One possibility is that employees gain it back after realizing the benefits of speaking up outweigh the risks. “Although it can be uncomfortable to speak up, share ideas, or ask questions, View Details