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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
past to tales of creative geniuses, athletes, and movers and shakers. The Sentient Enterprise: The Evolution of Business Decision Making by Oliver Ratzesberger (AMP 192, 2017) and Mahanbir Sawhney (Wiley) Having had intimate glimpses into the data challenges facing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
When Bill George (MBA ’66) talks about leadership, people listen. And well they should. For a decade, he quietly grew a midsized Minnesota medical-device maker into a world-class medical technology company. When George joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and COO, the... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Achievement Award recipients to share a failure they experienced and what they learned from it. Their stories show how the "F" word can be an integral part of success, shaping who we are and the organizations where we work. Photos by... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
and what was once considered the province of nonprofit organizations are becoming increasingly blurred." Businesses, says Austin, are finding they can benefit in many ways by working to strengthen the communities in which they operate.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
because the water level has been decreasing,” says Maughan, who organized the talk. Steed is the executive director of Utah State University’s Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air and in 2023 became the inaugural Great... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking about is how a company can create a culture where an employee feels comfortable telling a boss, “Oh, I just observed that no one is wearing a helmet in the factory. Maybe we should change that.” The upside for the View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
weeks later, the team abruptly announced it would abandon its controversial name and logo. The decision was so sudden, in fact, that the organization offered only a temporary replacement. It would be known, in the interim, as the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
that department stores organized cosmetics by brand, making comparisons difficult, she was determined to offer consumers a better option. “I wanted to build an empire in the beauty industry,” says Beck, who oversees Bluemercury’s 195... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
summer, others will just use it as a satellite office for a day or two. Assistant Professor Jeffrey L. Bradach, for example, is currently studying the use of temporary personnel as high-level employees, and the Valley provides rich examples for his research. "The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
says Srivastava, recalling that he reached out to classmate and HBS associate professor Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) to get a better sense of whether academia would be a good fit. Now, Srivastava is following three streams of research on social networks in View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
organizations around the world are facing. RH: And every organization outside of health care is watching how hospitals like MGH think through this return to elective care. Educational institutions, large... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Each year hundreds of hardworking HBS students volunteer their time to arrange on-campus conferences that attract a wide variety of top-notch speakers, expert panelists, and enthusiastic audience participants. Working through student clubs, MBAs View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and won the 1994 Massachusetts Democratic primary for lieutenant governor before losing in the general election. Since 1996, Massie has guided CERES, a national coalition of some 85 groups that includes environmental organizations and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
benefits to part-time workers. We have a consulting firm poll our workers every year to find out how they feel about the company, and they've told us that they've never seen such a positive response in an View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
the new program, "women executives long for the same kind of camaraderie and exchange that men can find with their peers in more informal settings." Among those in attendance was Jessie d'E. Bourneuf (MBA '75), then president of the King Size Catalogue Company, a men's... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
to make a living selling buttons, combs, and other sundry items to suspicious and penny-pinching rural homesteaders. From these humble origins, Friedman traces a series of transitions that imposed ever-greater organization and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
aspects of organization.” Neither organization charts nor the “grossly misleading” application of economics to the management of business firms could be relied upon to give satisfactory administrative... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about consumer-driven health care. The View Details