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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
(VIS '79), director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology in Johannesburg and longtime president of the HBS Club of South Africa, recalls how during the apartheid era, HBS alumni helped the country's business community to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 22 Apr 2010
- News
Using Business to Boost National Security
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
choice. For Lopez, that has meant deploying a multifaceted strategy with an underlying premise: Make the customer feel at home while providing a sense of escape. "My career has always been about consumer persuasion," says Lopez, who came... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
developing countries is both challenging and exciting, says Maddy. Her advice to others who might wish to follow her lead? "Things generally take a lot longer to implement, and you need to build certain cultural factors into your business plan and understand how best... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
Not Your Typical Venture Capitalist
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Professional Property Development by John McMahan (MBA ’61) (McGraw-Hill) McMahan addresses the fundamentals of successful property development — marketing, financing, planning, designing, construction, merchandising, and property View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Serena Ventures, a fund backed by Williams with an emphasis on startups that make diverse leadership and inclusivity a priority. Rapaport manages a portfolio of close to 60 early-stage investments focused on companies in the health,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
companies, who were looking for blockbusters for large markets,” recalls Nate Boaz (MBA 2006), Prize4Life cofounder and board member, who is now managing director of talent strategy at Accenture in Atlanta.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
hiring outsiders for its top management ranks and stopped the merry-go-round of promotions and relocations for top managers. Immelt now wants managers to stay put and become experts in their industries, not... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Diversifying the Nigerian Economy
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
their Competition and Strategy professor Michael Porter. The group thought it would be a good opportunity to take some of Porter’s ideas about what makes a nation competitive and apply those on a city level. Two organizations spun out of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
to American management practices with the increasingly global nature of business. Today, there’s a clear sense that this will be a global century in which economic activity and business innovation will be much more widely distributed... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
pace of technological change, the emergence of a gig economy, and shifting global and labor markets. As faculty co-chairs of the Managing the Future of Work project, William Kerr and Joseph Fuller are leading efforts to prepare leaders... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
and managed to realize this joint value; and each participant must earn a sufficient return to justify the investment. The second element—managing complex collections of people, products, and partners—presents a formidable challenge for... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
After 29 years with the family business, 55-year-old Abigail Johnson (MBA 1988) has been making a series of bold moves since assuming the role of chairman of Fidelity Investments in December 2016, according to a report in the Boston Globe. The privately held mutual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
global work. My predecessor, Dean Kim B. Clark, adopted a strategy in the 1990s predicated on the belief that strengthening our international research was the most effective way of globalizing the School. He launched a number of regional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
with the job, to getting it done well. It’s not much time — even the president of the United States gets one hundred days — but HBS associate professor Michael Watkins insists that it can be done. In his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
As a part of his campaign strategy for the Student Association presidency, Dobron took the unusual step of creating a team of four sectionmates to help him develop a platform based on issues of importance to the student body. Once... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
Olympic Park Legacy Company. Her education and experience complemented Blumkin's, as did her roots across the river in Mamaroneck, in New York's Westchester County. Blumkin immediately signed Lehrer as manager of communications and... View Details