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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Design Fair
Second-year students in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective MBA course Managing Product Development presented their final projects at the tenth annual Design Fair in December. Among those who... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
would not be on the modern woman's birthday, Christmas, or wedding-gift list. This change certainly looks permanent. But is it? Just note the popularity of Downton Abbey!" The book project became a big part of Wilson's life. "For several... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way
“Leading and managing in the complex and dynamic environment of an urban K–12 school system is an incredibly difficult challenge,” observes HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. “One of the toughest problems is that although there are many excellent... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
Professor James K. Sebenius, examines the change process through a negotiating lens. The dramatized negotiation involves interactions between a manager responsible for a critical project and other View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
board papers, policy papers, management strategy reports, business proposals, a commission of inquiry report, minutes of meeting, corporate letters, audit reports, opinion editorials and blog articles. The author also taught a course on... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Creating a sustainable world
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) is founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate fund committed to green mobility. Herlaut, who in fall of 2014 received the French National Order of Merit for her support... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
11 trainees, chosen through the Specialisterne Assessment process, in Adelaide. During the assessment, candidates completed individual and team projects using Lego Mindstorms, as well as undergoing psychometric testing for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
though, and you’ll find that Hamilton has been renewed by a marriage of technology and environmental sustainability. “Basically, the only thing we kept was the building’s exterior shell,” says Jason Carlson, project View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
support for bundling pilot projects in the health-care legislation enacted in April 2010. In fact, the legislation inspired Herzlinger to initiate the field study project with New England Baptist Hospital. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
groups such as Boko Haram, which at least promise something to eat. Kola Masha Managing Director, Doreo Partners Masha's Babban Gona system turns subsistence farmers into commercial growers using a franchise model that provides everything... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami (PMD 76, 2001) of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education programs, McFarlan has been a guest professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
D’Avella arrived at HBS just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina had devastated much of the Gulf Coast. In January 2006, he traveled to New Orleans on a student-led trek with 56 other MBAs to apply their HBS skills to projects ranging... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
management for a couple of years. I loved P&G, but I don’t have a lot of respect for authority, and I don’t like answering to people. So I applied to HBS. Why HBS? I always had an entrepreneurial spirit, and I wanted to learn about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Back from the Brink
Enterprise (June 2007) reported in its survey of the “BE Industrial/Service 100.” So ZeroChaos redirected its focus (selling its services to major corporations rather than small businesses), introduced innovative, customer-friendly features, and expanded through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
Shift—I manage finance, I manage our marketing team, I manage the board, I manage recruiting.” While it’s been a departure, Ingersoll says the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the Entrepreneurial View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details