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- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
of their biggest research challenges was how to determine whether a manager’s guidance was on target or misleading. They did so by constructing their own estimates of how a company was doing in real time by View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
oversight and better corporate governance. The next step in improving CEO succession—and ultimately in improving financial performance and long-term returns to shareholders—seems more likely to come from within, as management teams and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
Even though at the time these things seem like the worst thing ever, they really made us a stronger company. + ONLINE web-only content OW: How did your aha moment come about? Was it an active process of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
dialysis device, a femtech device using genomics to enable women’s care, a biosensing wearable to prevent dehydration, and an oxygen sensor for personalized oncology care. They have collectively raised more than $485M in funding and an... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding the global economy from a new perspective
Henry Paulson (MBA 1970) has held public and private leadership positions, including roles as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, and US Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. As chairman... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
encountered at a subsequent role in Raytheon’s missile defense program. Highly technical specifications were often tracked in low-tech Excel spreadsheets, which meant engineers lost considerable time to paperwork. That was frustrating,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
question: What are the best business management processes and practices needed by executives heading up companies that incorporate science-based innovation? A Different Management Strategy Sato believes that the challenges particular to businesses and institutions that... View Details
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
made a leap of faith. If he could just find a management position at a nonprofit, he figured, he could help direct social change. “That was my thesis,” he recalls. Since he made that jump, he’s proved that thesis correct several times... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
She has taught at the Wharton School and at the United Nations Economic Development Mission in the Republic of Belarus. A former assistant director of Admissions at HBS, she is the past president of TriCom Ventures and was general manager of new business development... View Details
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Optimism: Younger Black Knowledge Workers +Jim Andrew (MBA 1986)Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo+Audrey Choi (MBA 2004) Chief Sustainability Officer and CEO, Institute for Sustainable Investing, Morgan StanleyNow Is the Time for Bold... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
was packed for the keynote address at 8:30 a.m. — well before the usual Sunday start time for most students. I was lured to the event in part by the buildup it had gotten in the press. Weeks beforehand, Forbes named it one of the top... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
fellowship gives me the freedom to pursue my passion for helping suffering communities.” Cenat’s desire to give back stems from her own experience. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti when she was a child, and her father drove a taxi to support the... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
for which they lack formal training, and facing painful uncertainty about what happens next, deserve our admiration and gratitude. But that is not enough. At some point (and none of us know exactly when), exhaustion will overwhelm duty.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
direction, Radiometer began an intensive program of process improvements using the Danaher Business System (DBS), an iterative tool system and company culture that sought to continuously improve the company's growth and lean and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the “principal-agent problem.” How... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
Bush Photo courtesy athenahealth Main article: Where Innovation Rules What do you do if your start-up turns out to be a little too far ahead of its time? If you’re Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), you use what you’ve learned to jump-start a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Mickey Herbert parleyed a stint as an administrative assistant to a pediatric neurologist into a successful career as the founder and CEO of a Connecticut HMO. Not bad for someone who confesses he had “no clue” what he wanted to do after... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
Morgado, former CEO of Warner Music, to build a music and entertainment business in China." Feeley also serves as that venture began a phase-out last year, leaving Feeley extra time to invest in the startup... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
December 19, 2018 NEJM Catalyst It's Time to Reform the Orphan Drug Act By: Bagley, Nicholas, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman