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- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Find your passion in business and beyond
Adrian Beer (OPM 31, 2002), CEO of GrupoBeer, talks about finding balance between building your business and benefitting society. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption
The corruption is so endemic in government that many people think it’s just how government operates. “We asked what can we do that will help the lives of everyday people?” Motte-Munoz says. “We’re interested in the situations where you can you actually tip the View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
formation of a repertory company, and how character and temperament mattered quite as much as acting ability; just his problem, he said—he had to balance his types too, and their science or seamanship weighed little against the kind of... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
1,500 employees, 93 percent of whom are women, and they operate hundreds of stores and counters in Macy’s. The daughter of an entrepreneur and a teacher, Marla Beck grew up in Oakland, California. She was a voracious reader who tagged along with her father on real... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
of approximately $4.52 billion (five times greater than that of its nearest competitor, Fisher Price), and the company has been hailed as a growth champion. Hear more from company cochairman Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on how Lego balances... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
abandonment - refusing to repair a broken product. "People feel most satisfied with their purchases when they can put the paradoxes of technology in relative balance in their lives," says Fournier. Fournier hopes this research will prompt... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
buck.” At the core of the four-year-old program is a carefully curated curriculum that balances cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and the results have been nothing short of extraordinary. In the school’s first year of operation, only 35... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
embrace change.” At the same time, as a student of organizational behavior, Nohria said he understood the importance of remaining resolute about certain traditions that have made HBS great, such as the case method and professors close to practice. Striking a View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
archeology and conversation, and marketing and tourism, among other things. He expects the organization to quadruple in size by 2030. Most of the Royal Commission’s focus has been on building a master plan that will balance the demands of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
ACOG who are Vietnam vets liken it to the experience of being on patrol in the jungle one day and stepping off a plane in Seattle or San Francisco the next evening. After years of being totally consumed by my job, I'm now trying to focus on regaining a View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
they’re generating interest at the bank. Cummings intends to close that loop with Walden Mutual, which he founded in 2021 to create impact on both the deposit and lending sides of the balance sheet. (He asked HBS sectionmate Philip... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
the community -- its outside stakeholders. You can have responsibility at the top of the company, but if it doesn't permeate the entire organization the stakeholders can't count on it. What about bottom-line responsibility to shareholders? Any senior manager today has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
(Thinkstock/Getty Images) Robo-advisors, like Betterment and Wealthfront, are built for millennials-automated asset management for those with lower account balances or an aversion to traditional financial advisors. Silicon Valley has... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
At his 2012 wedding, Peter Stone (MBA 2008) received an unexpected compliment, in addition to all of the expected well wishes and toasts. Bestselling author and guest Margaret Stohl told Stone that she was impressed with the vows he’d composed for the ceremony. Was he... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
BEILHARZ: "I no longer feel like one of those pet animals on a wheel." On a rare break from running her new ecotourism business in the wilds of Texas Hill Country, Amy Beilharz (MBA ’84) reflects on the life she and her husband, David, have built since leaving... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
clients while attracting new customers.” At Steuben, Haupt says that there’s an ongoing assessment of the appropriate balance between a product’s form and function and how that fits with the way people live today. In the past, she notes,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
manage by business fundamentals and a very strong internal compass. Business is about more than facts and figures. It’s about real emotion and how people react to emotion, and that has to be understood and factored in by a leader, just as much as income statements and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human side and find a way forward when analysis falls short. Chasing Rainbows and Beyond: A Spectrum of Life and... View Details