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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
Professor V. Kasturi Rangan, the required Marketing course has been revamped to include new initiatives such as a marketing-strategy computer simulation (called "Pharmasim") and a module on new product development, developed and taught jointly with the Technology and... View Details
- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
When Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) became the executive director of the Safe Passage Project in 2016, his mandate was to expand the organization. Today, there are 40 staffers working in partnership with 450 pro-bono attorneys to represent... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
afraid that most managers still see environmentalists as adversaries. This is a fundamental problem. Too few managers appreciate the integral relationship between the economy and the natural environment. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
more management training, I could better help those organizations,” Van Gerpen recalls. “I was drawn to HBS because it seemed to recognize the importance of the nonprofit sector.” After graduating, she worked for eight years in Boston, as... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
an AASU Past Presidents portrait project; encouraging current and potential HBS students to participate; and engaging HBS faculty members with alumni in local communities across the country. “Alumni have been a big part of this celebration,” says Taran Swan (MBA 1991),... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, working on housing and infrastructure View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
administrators together for lively presentations by colleagues and a panel discussion on “The Market for Management Ideas,” moderated by Walter Kiechel (MBA '76/JD '77), senior vice president and executive director of HBS Publishing.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Cash, Jr. Professional Achievement Award: Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983/JD 1984), managing director, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Morgan Stanley This year’s conference — named for one of the School’s first African-American alumni —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
in the country. QE Solar totaled almost $1 million in revenue in 2014—double what it made the previous year—and projects $2 million in revenue in 2015. The company has taken no money from outside investors. QE Solar has 20 clients, all of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
exploration has involved meetings with forty HBS faculty members involved in a wide variety of research endeavors. "If Harvard Business School only knew what Harvard Business School knows," Quelch observes with a wry smile. "There is so much going on at this place — so... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
initiative, whether a simple project or a grand gamble. Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager by Lars Kroijer (MBA ’98) (FT Prentice Hall) Kroijer charts the founding, rise, and eventual... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Xerox as manager of multinational projects in 1979. Six years later, fate intervened again. Practically en route to the hospital to deliver her long-awaited first child, she received a telephone call: Rukia... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
board papers, policy papers, management strategy reports, business proposals, a commission of inquiry report, minutes of meeting, corporate letters, audit reports, opinion editorials and blog articles. The author also taught a course on... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
with one of my coworkers, a manager from a different department. He and I had had a wonderful relationship as I was growing up in the business, but now that I had come back and joined the business and had been promoted to manager, I felt... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
senior management is especially necessary, Coote said, in managing the partnerships that now often result from changed business models and corporate restructurings. Senior View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice