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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
in a summertime interview in her temporary office space in northern Virginia, preferred not to reveal too much about the thirteen-member operation. But the excitement of running her own firm with a first-rate crew of employees was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
interview Merrick immediately; both offered him jobs. After graduation, he accepted a position at Parson Group, a Chicago-based consulting firm he learned of through a previous contact. That was then, this is now, but Merrick's approach -... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
hard to get, to make the search firm and client recruit you. Finally, prepare for the interviews by writing notes about your relevant responsibilities and achievements against the key selection criteria outlined in the position... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
workshop—students bring their spouses or partners to class to work on how to have effective relationships. Crafting Your Life employs self-assessments, written exercises, workshops, and a simulation all developed specially for the course. Many of the alumni who were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
The managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid since June 2001, Brit K. Dewey (MBA 1996) and her Admissions team have achieved the seemingly contradictory feat of making the admissions process both more personal and more technology-driven. On the personal... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- News
Managing McDonald’s Makeover
Easterbrook is showing his desire to bring fresh blood into a company that traditionally has promoted almost solely from within. Easterbrook, though, praised Kempczinski’s immediate impact: "Mike has done a great job to get this business back on track," CEO Steve... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
from throughout their first year to on-site, customer-related projects with companies around the world. Before their trip, Franklin’s six-person team tested their research methodology in interviews with Boston-area teens and parents.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
and implement our idea for a kids’ menu,” says Jiang. “But we discovered that the consumer preferences and concepts of a bakery were completely different in Brazil. It challenged us to understand the customers’ mind-sets,” explains Ormeci. Team members conducted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
Moreover, the deans had reason to be optimistic because the leading edge of change was already under way, and program changes like the ones described in the book, despite being challenging, could be achieved through individual and collective action. Walking back to my... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Books@Baker: Joseph Badaracco
decision personally or professionally. So says Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco, who studied classic works and interviewed more than 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy people find time for reflection. Based... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- News
Jeremy Grantham on the Battle to Save Society from Climate Change: ‘We’re Not Winning’
In a recent interview with the Financial Times , Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966) noted his pessimism about the global attitude towards climate change. “My odds are about 50:50 that we will protect society in somewhat the same shape as we’ve... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
about reducing the company's work force; most downsizing was achieved through attrition and early retirement incentives. "This is not an earthshaking turnaround," notes the straight-talking DiCamillo during an interview in his modest... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
tapped HBS to host its “Create” stage. Among the speakers on idea generation and execution: Dean Nitin Nohria, Hamilton star Okieriete Onaodowan, and actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba, who was interviewed by Professor Youngme Moon. View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
transformation without seeing it with one’s own eyes,” Isenberg added. “The physical, economic, and social immensity of the change is impressive.” For more about the trip, read an interview with Isenberg in HBS Working Knowledge:... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 13 Mar 2020
- News
Expanding Cancer Care
Lesley Solomon (MBA 2004) is the senior vice president for innovation and chief innovation officer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In this interview from June 2019, she discusses how she works to ensure that the work of Dana-Farber... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
program of activities that included lively classroom and small-group discussions and videotaped interviews with students. Alumni could mingle informally with students - over breakfast as well as lunch - and continue conversations begun on... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
group of the unit's most highly respected employees to interview colleagues and internal and external customers. They then report to their leaders what they have learned about the organization. After gathering profiles of over 150... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA
interview with Poets & Quants, Schwarzman talks about: The team-oriented culture at Blackstone: “We’re not looking for people who want to create more stress with people around them”; The value of an MBA education: “It’s a wonderful... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
was appointed chairman of the President’s Export Council, charged with advising President Obama on trade and export expansion. (McNerney is interviewed in the current Bulletin.) In 2010, Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) was tapped by the White House... View Details