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- 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
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
expand their own ecosystems. They formalized the network in a database called Katapult Talent, which today holds 8,000 names—something Hoffman touts as an invaluable problem-solving tool. Culture Shift’s focus on building connections is about opening doors, View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
McArthur, thank you — a profile wonderfully written, a life wonderfully lived. Andrew Tobias (MBA ’72) Miami, FL Enough with the Hero Worship After reading the December issue, I was reminded of one of the School’s faults that I observed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
able to give those guys a hug or shoot the breeze with them — for me, it’s surreal,” he observes. “Larry knows what brings him joy, and he actually chooses to spend his life doing that,” observes Baer’s HBS classmate and friend Beth... 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
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
standard?” In the course of research for their book, Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life, authors Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson came to view such observations as evidence that popular notions of success have... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
and operating as a team?" After canvassing the "front of the house" (undetected by employees, if possible), he makes his way to the "back of the house" to observe the kitchen's complex choreo-graphy. Castaldo says there's nothing like a... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
regional events. Among those alumni offering observations about the role of HBS in their lives have been: Harold M. Brierley (MBA 1968), William A. Chen (MBA 1995), James Dinan (MBA 1985), Trevor Fetter (MBA 1986), Anne Dias Griffin (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
There was almost a riot.” After observing her first successful open-heart surgery and the emotional post-operative meeting between the doctor and the baby's grateful parents, McIntosh, who speaks Russian and has a master's degree in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
facilitate this revolutionary industry can be discussed and formulated. And, importantly, it offers a venue for social and ethical aspects of this revolution to be pondered. Observes West, “The life sciences revolution has so many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
agencies too disjointed to police abuses adequately. After analyzing the problems, Mills suggests possible solutions. While he advocates reorganization and reform of regulatory channels, he also proposes using market mechanisms to let investors vote with their dollars... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
part of a team that is decentralizing the OUSD’s budgeting process. She is also performing analyses and reviews of special-education expen-ditures and policies regarding the closing or consolidation of school sites. Observes Epps,... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
that concept in a conventional sense. I mean, I like having a nice life and I'm not always switched on, but my brain is always switched on and observing things with intensity, or hearing things in a nuanced way, and realizing you're doing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
graduated from the School in 1926. We understand that he has been an active member of the Harvard Club of Tokio [sic] and observe that his alumni dues are paid through October, 1942! War Notes Winter 1955 Married college sweetheart and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
they are. Their names appear on the generic, straight-to-the-wastebasket proxy forms that shareholders receive. But despite recent improvements that have increased shareholders’ voices in governance, a levelheaded observer like former SEC... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
observed that over a number of years. In what ways has the outdoor recreation economy grown, and what do you see for its future? Vogl: Well, the outdoor recreation economy is actually a very large industry. Nationwide, outdoor recreation,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Council of Economic Advisers in the White House. In Washington, Choi observed that while many policy goals were successfully realized through public- and private-sector partnerships, the absence of self-sustaining funding often... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
of management practice Rob Kaplan, a former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs who served recently as acting head of the Harvard Management Company, observed that the financial crisis is symptomatic of another very serious issue, a severely... View Details