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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
levels: When Childs first proposed the task force strategy, Gerstner asked him one question: "Why?" But in the end, IBM's task force structure paved the way for employee buy-in because executives then had to invite constituent... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
fondly. “Hugo left a lasting impression on my life,” she said. “Our journey started simply with John McArthur asking me to, ‘Go talk to Hugo .’ That set in motion many ways that Hugo and I worked together. My capstone memory is walking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
respond to changes in their competitive environment, Sull argues that outward manifestations of success — such as impressive earnings, media attention, and monuments to their past accomplishments — can cause managers facing new challenges... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
surprising to me about the articles generally is how thoughtful they are: They are a real lens and filter for helping people understand the broader importance and reach of a particular person or event. I’m quite impressed by how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
In April 2008, the School will mark its Centennial birthday — 100 years of history and achievement. To be sure, that’s an impressive figure, but consider also the combined years at HBS — nearly 160 — of emeriti professors Charlie... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los Angeles. She gives the entirely plausible View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
Oral Histories Transcripts Betty J. Diener (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964, DBA 1974) Interview by Livingston Grant, March 27, 2000. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project , Schlesinger Library , Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. I... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
common in negotiations and that many negotiators prefer to palter than to lie by commission. Paltering, however, may promote conflict fueled by self-serving interpretations; palterers focus on the veracity of their statements (“I told the truth”), whereas targets focus... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
with the Japanese," says M. James Kondo (MBA 1997), Twitter's managing director, East Asia, explaining the social-media company's popularity in Japan. "Japanese was the first non-English language that Twitter supported—we now support over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
fail just when the region needed it most. The advent of coal mining more than a century ago (the first rail shipment of eastern Kentucky coal rolled out of Harlan County in 1911) transformed a sparsely populated rural area dominated by... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
issues that Gaillot had come to stand for: the problem of homelessness, the spread of AIDS, the evils of nuclear testing, and the wisdom of married priests. In the first six weeks of 1996, Partenia registered 250,000 hits. The Vatican,... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
institutions - like the Bulletin itself - are enduring outgrowths of its solid foundation. Women in the Bulletin While the first women in the Bulletin sold cigarettes in colorfully drawn advertisements in the 1930s, an occasional article... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
appropriate manufacturer in China, in 1999 Neurosmith released its first product, Music Blocks, a toy that allows young children to create music simply by rotating and rearranging blocks. While retailers were uniformly View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
pharmaceutical companies in 1984, American Home Products ranked first in sales and twenty-eighth in R&D expenditures as a percentage of sales.23 As the historian Williams Haynes noted, by the end of the 1930s, American Home Products... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
concluded with four separate breakout sessions in HBS classrooms, each lead by one of the guest CEOs. “It was a fantastic evening,” says Sharon Lewis (MBA 1983) the HBSAB’s Vice President for Programs. “We’re giving our members direct access to some extremely View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
limitations, Genoa is offering assistance setting up telemedicine services free of charge until July 15, 2020 at a minimum. Theobald is impressed by how quickly many providers have switched almost entirely to telemedicine during the... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
food safety inspectors on their daily rounds. This allowed her to see firsthand how seriously inspectors took their jobs, how they made decisions, and the challenges they faced in the course of their workdays. “I’m impressed with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
prepare for what was coming. My view is that you need at least 100 years of data to have a sense of the potential risks that globalization runs. Do business schools teach enough financial history? My impression of the major business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
of the Yale School of Management; under-secretary of state during the Nixon administration; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; and chairman and CEO of Aetna. Along with his impressive résumé, Donaldson brought a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
executives. She was struck by how excited both groups were. "I could tell teaching the case the first time that the room was on fire." "Everyone was engaged with it, men and women. I remember a male MBA student who had a... View Details