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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
Mary Sauer and Bob Doris (MBA 1977/JD 1978) HBS’s focus on innovation connected Bob Doris (MBA 1977/JD 1978) and Mary Sauer more deeply with the School. “We are very impressed with the work HBS is doing to foster a startup culture at the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
proceeded to close an assembly plant last year to take down capacity by 25 percent. We also reduced our indirect workforce by 20 percent, becoming one of the first major Japanese companies to take such a decisive step. Lifetime employment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s heard from View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
reality, offering tested methods for bridging cultural differences, leading virtually, and preparing for the next global crisis, whatever shape it may take. Neeley also highlights the crucial importance of launch (and relaunch) sessions... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
country that had missed the industrial revolution that happened in many other countries in the 19th century, and then had suffered terribly under Mao since 1949. The so-called Great Leap Forward in 1958 triggered a famine that killed 40 million people, and in 1966,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
irrelevant,” the prime minister says, simultaneously making an entrance and scoring major marital points. Mareva Grabowski Mitsotakis (left) spent a dozen years in investment banking before launching Zeus+Dione, a line of clothing and accessories that showcase Greece’s... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2017
- News
New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
markets. The newest regional offices, which opened this past year in Dubai, Singapore, and Tel Aviv, provide a means for understanding the unique economic and cultural factors shaping business in those locations. “We are broadening our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
search firm RobinsonButler, for a quick rundown of the day. Was there a takeaway from the event that struck you—an insight that really resonated? Kent Thiry (MBA 1983), cochairman and CEO of DaVita, one of the world's largest dialysis companies, talked about how he... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid,... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
capture an audience most completely. That is the most gratifying feeling.” Jim McNerney (MBA 1975) Retired Chairman, The Boeing Company “I was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the oldest of five. I don’t know if there’s something to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Courtesy Paris Wallace Courtesy Paris Wallace At 70 employees strong, the Boston-based digital company Ovia Health is on the smallish-but-mighty size compared to the rest of the local tech hub. Competing for talent is tough. While those... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
house Western companies happens in conditions that wouldn’t pass an OSHA inspection. Clean drinking water and indoor plumbing are a luxury, and slums line main roads. For many of the country’s 1.1 billion residents, life still exists... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
and fir, but with an oddly shaped pockmark in the middle where a patch of cedars has been logged. Their replacements have not yet reached the height of their elder peers. Eamer was born in Nanaimo, located across the Strait of Georgia from Vancouver, the son of a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
1920–2000: How It Worked, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, presents a succinct and insightful analysis of the entrepreneurs and companies that have left their impression on world industry. McCraw examines... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
of thing, that is also, culturally important. And she, yes, had a basket making business, but those women who were making baskets with her, among them were survivors of the genocide and women whose husbands had perpetrated the genocide.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
with their yellow Lab, half a dozen chickens, and a few sheep. While Adams has kept his hand in the business world through Vineyard Ventures, a small, private equity fund that has invested in companies as far-flung as Chile and China,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
this culture of psychological safety and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business by Sunil Gupta HBR Press Despite the widespread threat of disruption, many large View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
high consideration. Spiritual and ethical factors are often viewed as separate “silos,” but these core values pervasively shape, bind, and energize the economic culture. Long-term policy and growth must emanate from—and reflect—the aspirations, character, spirit, and... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
Seki. “We want to prove that we can maximize the return by installing ESG thinking in younger companies and, hopefully, nurture global startups from Japan.” In a Japanese business culture still widely... View Details