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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
assess how things were going but not too soon to tap into their collective insights on launching a new venture. Private or nonprofit sector, up market or down, the observations that follow highlight the many approaches to what it means to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
change,” says Childress. Why the shift in attitude? “Some people point to 9/11 as creating a heightened awareness of the world as an interconnected system and spurring a search for meaning,” observes Childress. “It may also be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
corruption, the interesting and important issues are shades of gray,” observes Abdelal, who has authored several case studies on corruption and is writing a book on the subject with HBS professor Rafael Di Tella. Very broadly speaking,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
(MBA '92), Paul Knutson (HBS '98), William H. roedy, Jr. (MBA '79), and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), industry insiders with perspectives from key vantage points in the music world. They, along with HBS associate professor John J. Sviokla, a close View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
than their share of scarce environmental resources and therefore must now consume less," observes Fri. "Another is that the developing countries, whose exploding populations threaten to tax the carrying capacity of the planet, must... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
Disease Control and Prevention, declared racism a serious public health threat. Shell is a coalition builder and a longtime observer of “where human capital is invested and where it isn’t.” He grew up in New Bedford, one of a number of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
with these questions in a virtual case-method style discussion on October 22. The 160 attendees had the option to be observers only, or participate in the live video class and be prepared to be called upon to engage in the conversation.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of hours interviewing and View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
HBS alumni often describe the MBA Program as a transformational experience. That observation especially rings true for students such as Meredith Weenick, Neera Nundy, Abdu Mukhtar, and Jonathan Hodgson who participate in the Nonprofit and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
of work in their lives. And Richard Whiteley observes that corporations, too, are seeing things differently. "Previous activities that have been intended to create organizational vision and purpose have indeed formed the foundation for... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
second observation about some public companies not deserving a significant commitment of wealth by sitting directors, I couldn’t agree more. In those cases, the directors should simply resign, or commit to turning around (and investing... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
unemployment situation in India remains dire, with 17.8 million of the nation’s 1.34 billion people unemployed, according to the United Nations International Labor Organization. “Much work needs to be done,” observes Bhargava. “Otherwise,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
surprising that a firm’s country of origin can shed so much light on global expansion,” commented Lal. Exactly how globally standardized should a corporation strive to be? HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, who said that Levitt’s 1983 essay is the first assignment he gives... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
observes Conforti, who is now Finale’s president. Their HBS credentials, recalls Conforti, were “also very helpful in convincing investors that we were going to manage the inherent risk of running a restaurant better than others might.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
“I’ve also observed interesting team dynamics on these adventures. “There is a big difference between the team that celebrates making it to the summit and the same team that later has to rescue a teammate from a deep crevasse. Challenges... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
businesspeople must see each other as allies in the process of pursuing the common good. Have you observed ways in which social enterprise activity has positively affected company operations and employee morale? Behnke: Employees take... View Details