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- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
sponsored buyouts are typically more informed, more hands-on, and more interventionist than public company boards. There are several reasons for this: Private-equity boards typically have the advantage of in-depth due diligence that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
For more information on any of the programs featured here, please contact us at alumni@hbs.edu. Alumni Dinner Series John Power (MBA 1974) and Todd Doersch (MBA 1983) hosted second-year MBA students at... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
means my team is involved in a wide variety of tasks, ranging from purchasing, engaging with food donors, delivery scheduling, product inspection, and assortment optimization.” How do you use what you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
computing changes the way people use data to make decisions. “We’re seeing more of analytics and big data as a means not just to support the decision a person wants to make, but also as a way to provide... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
that is used in the course. Another driver of creativity, motivation, is the locus of Amabile’s research. “The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
impact from this global pandemic and have an opportunity to use their investment decisions to support companies that make positive change. What about long-term negative impacts to the health care venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
free-for-all five years ago has long since been beaten into submission by the myriad personnel, administrative, and legal hassles of "management." John B. Higginbotham (MBA '79) February 1988 It seems that every high- View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
challenge after another. "Take India, for example," she says. "How do you get people who use twigs to brush their teeth to trade up to something as alien as toothpaste?" (The answer, she explains, is through grassroots education View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Promoting a Deeper Understanding
Cynthiana, Kentucky, with sales offices in Europe and Asia. Supporting the School’s efforts to continue to deepen the global knowledge of HBS’s faculty and students has been a... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
Brazil. “Facily often serves lower-income people who had never used e-commerce before,” Westphal said. “It reminded me a lot of the small business my parents owned back in Brazil and also the neighborhood... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Advancing the Vision for HBS
people — provides us with the unique opportunity to leverage our collective impact and effect positive change in the world. —John B. Hess Campaign Chair John B. Hess (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
workweek is filled with staff meetings, conferences, public events, negotiations with government officials about programs and their implementation, and donor-relations work with local embassies. She finds... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
the skills and knowledge our graduates will bring to their jobs but also on their values, their attitudes, and their character. To reach this goal we must continue the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
behavior in the Justice Department’s crosshairs — deal sharing — is an important aspect of this competition that benefits us all. To understand the benefits of deal sharing, it is helpful to look at private equity’s older sibling, venture... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
“Both of my parents have always been very committed to volunteer work and they always encouraged us to give back to the community,” Burke told the Capital Times. “I feel incredibly lucky to have been given... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable land currently View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
initial revenue push, but the critical move might be to redefine Gazelle around a model of exchanging a product for cash and then extending more product lines. That could lead to relationships with vendors, retailers, View Details