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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
on Chicago-based clients. They agreed. She did not tell them she was pregnant, however, until it was fairly obvious. By then she had built up quite a large client base in Chicago so she was asked to open a Bain View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
unconventional thinkers. One of the texts was from Patagonia’s founder, Yvon Chouinard. I was enamored by his honesty on business, particularly his stance on the role businesses had in addressing environmental issues. In the opening... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318143-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-455 The Heat Is On: Emerging Ecosystems in the Thermostat Industry Beth Wozniak, President of Honeywell Environmental and Combustion Controls (ECC) at Honeywell International Inc.,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
corporate synergies should be defined at the top and realized in the business units. Just as the CFO coordinates the budgeting process, a senior executive should coordinate the alignment process—a responsibility for the Office of Strategy... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving crisis situations, or even preventing them in the first place,” explains 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow Sarika Mendu (MBA 2020). As senior advisor in the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
of antique mustard pots to posters from the Napa Valley Mustard Festival, where the company's product has earned more than a few gold medals. Less expected is the sculpture of a phoenix that graces the office of Plochman's president,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
Light: Providing steady leadership as HBS moves forward on a variety of established and innovative fronts In August, Professor Jay Light stepped into the Dean’s office in Morgan Hall, rolled up his sleeves, and brought his decades of HBS... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference
including those focused on health care, consumer packaged goods, media and advertising. During the afternoon keynote, Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer of P&G discussed the future of advertising. Brands, he said, have the power to... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- Profile
Monne Williams
At Duke, Monne Williams wasn't satisfied with playing rugby or even working in the athletics office on sponsorships and corporate relations. Curiosity led to questions: "Who do companies sponsor? What's the benefit? What's the return... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
Seegull coauthored a policy paper, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and others, focused on engaging the federal government in impact investing to achieve social and environmental outcomes. "That opened my eyes to the world of... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
mobile phone penetration, universal availability of unique ID systems, and evolving privacy and data protection laws. It builds on global best practices and promotes the adoption of human-centered design principles, data minimization, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Torras (MBA '50) established Preco Corp., a pulp and paper operation, creating more than one thousand jobs. In consumer services, David S. Paresky (MBA '65) opened Crimson Travel Service in Harvard Square a few months after graduation and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
political leaders have demonstrated spectacular leadership failures. The reasons and possible solutions shaped a fascinating give-and-take discussion among three distinguished panelists assembled in March at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to address “America’s... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
solving a problem with varying states of interaction with teammates: zero interaction with peers, intermittent interaction, or constant interaction. “Once upon a time, work in real workplaces was intermittent,” Bernstein says. You would go from your View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood says by phone from her office in Grand Haven, Michigan, where she serves as vice chairman of JSJ Corporation, a family-owned entity comprising six manufacturing companies. "I had come right out of college, and many of the men had... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
student to chief executive officer also makes it difficult for device makers to segment the market as cleanly as, say, PC companies are able to do, DelBene said. "Companies are spending a lot of time trying to figure out where the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience
by Hannah Perls (JD ’20), Senior Staff Attorney at Harvard's EELP and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, whose work focuses on equitable disaster preparedness and federal environmental justice policy. She opened the panel by framing... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
business e-mail account. If you have not yet activated your LEFA, please call the Alumni Records Office at 617-495-6438 or e-mail alumni_records@hbs.edu. In announcing the portal, Dean Kim B. Clark, a leading advocate of the power of... View Details