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- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
19-year career at General Electric, rising to run several divisions, including GE Aircraft Engines. He was one of three leaders groomed to take the helm, but he didn’t get the job. Someone who learns from setbacks, McNerney spent the next five years View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people worldwide. Yet most can’t afford the blood glucose monitoring needed to manage their condition. For a target group... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
reference points, students learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. They also develop a business philosophy and a set of values that will help them lead effectively when... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the headquarters of the NAVSEA Warfare Centers as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was charged with leading divisional managers at each of the NAVSEA WC’s 10... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
and scope of these changes have challenged business schools to devise new ways to teach the skills necessary to succeed and lead in 21st-century organizations. “We’re at the end of an era,” says Professor... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
men—who had gone abroad in search of work—are now reuniting with their families. “This is changing lives, and I love it, “says Ferrari, a former Coca Cola marketing executive who also spent several years View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
research shows strong empirical evidence that diverse boards can lead to increased corporate performance. A diversity of thought, perspective, and experience makes better boards, and it’s the right thing to do.” To help build the Board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Giving Kids a Better Chance
issues, and so I applied directly because I felt that the skills around entrepreneurship, around leading highly successful organizations, at which HBS is incredible, were the right skills to help drive View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
and care-giving decisions that, left unaddressed, lead to continual crisis management. Despite the sea change under way in health-care delivery, caregiving will remain high touch, not high tech. Let’s spare... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
foundations that support all of those entities. We help those organizations design and implement changes and initiatives that improve the work that they do every day, serving schools, teachers, and students. “One thing that I am focused... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill), Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA ’06),... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Joint Venture
experiences that often suggest interesting lines of research for our faculty to pursue. It’s a virtuous circle: Academics study business practice and practitioners, their research “product” then influences practice, which in turn leads to... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
Calabrese: "Never mistake motion for action." Courtesy Julia Calabrese A commercial real-estate mogul who quotes Hemingway? That would be Julia Calabrese (OPM 22, 1995), CEO at London-based McArthurGlen Group UK Ltd., a leading owner,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
relationships with the community. These investments can be modest. Just providing safe drinking water can lead to greater productivity and more profit, one of many instances where philanthropy makes good business sense. I get excited by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
the lead car was almost thrown out several times. But the company has actually managed to change the world, which is pretty cool. That doesn’t happen all the time.” “The vision has always been compelling,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
who just happened to love Gregorian chant. He even took the lead in an HBS musical. “I realized at the very top of that pyramid was the intersection of business and opera,” says Weinstein, “and if I could get a job combining those two... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
recommend Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us, by Brian Klaas, and Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, by Kim Scott (MBA 1996). —Christa Quarles (MBA 2000) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,... View Details
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
regarding her group’s new mandate and its new vision of an arc and engagement journey—from pre-admit through student to alumni; Professor Mitch Weiss reprised his highly successful session at the recent HBS AI conference, leading an... View Details