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- 01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real
a number of cities to promote My Vast Fortune, which has received rave reviews from readers. Says one, music industry mogul David Geffen, "If you don't think finance, politics, or real estate can be funny, read Andy's book." View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
"Today's students have a more pragmatic perspective. They don't merely focus on the theory of the case, and they tend to promote more global considerations." Because his students demand substantial real-world relevance alongside theory,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
rejected. As a result, he resigned from the board of the organization he had founded to promote the sport that he loved. Today, Swearengin, an attorney who for 14 years has represented companies facing class action litigation and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
companies touted cleanliness as good for health and success, but also for beauty. Hair washing, long unfashionable, was also a 20th-century phenomenon. This 1905 German advertisement promotes one of the first shampoos. Image Courtesy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
marketing for the Giants. “My job was to put warm butts into cold seats,” notes Baer, who says he learned a lot about all aspects of the business during the three years he spent promoting fan interest and attendance at the notoriously... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
suggested a tech security recruiting push aimed at women akin to the “Rosie the Riveter” campaign of World War II.) Bonaparte offers the example of how universities are attempting to attract more women to STEM careers. If a school wanted to View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
more satisfied, productive, and innovative. Indeed, the manifestations of spirituality in business are as varied as the individuals who promote such efforts. As executive director of Florida's aquarium project in Tampa from 1987 to 1993,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
'96), was recently promoted to director of National Accounts with L'Oreal in Spain. "Prior to my MBA studies," says Baeza, a Swiss native, "I had been working in Switzerland for Nivea for four years as a group product manager in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
first time I got it under way I was out for a week. Coming back, I crashed it into a buoy. It took me about 11 years to recover from that, professionally.” Moving up: “If after 21 years the Navy had said to me, ‘You’ve commanded three ships, and you’re not going to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
highest honors bestowed on a foreigner. In 1952, while acting director of the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, he was in charge of controlling the trade of the Soviet-bloc countries and promoting trade in the free world. In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
problem aside and turn it off. If you can’t do that, you really won’t be able to do this job. What was toughest part of the job? It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the department managers. And within a few... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
while promoting opportunities for all? How can we manage the core business while innovating for the future? For many of us, these competing and interwoven demands are a source of conflict. Since our brains love to make either-or choices,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
for that same promotion that you’ve been working towards for a couple of years, that you have all the same professional ambitions that you did before Your boss, not from a place of malice, but your boss may say, oh gee, well, hmm, this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
building the faculty through the recruitment and promotion of outstanding faculty members, strengthening research, enhancing Executive Education, and launching important initiatives in ethics and social enterprise. He also oversaw a major... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
campaign managers generally choose one of two strategies. One is to prod radio stations to run a hit single from an album as many times a day as possible - what's known as creating "push" in the marketplace. The other is to drum up fan interest in the album by first... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
(the company that invented voicemail); Jane Fonda’s Workout; and Playboy TV/Video, my most instructive failure was during my year as product manager of Tostitos. Top management had decided that we would implement a “trial size” promotion... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
conversation with Coupounas immediately senses that she’s wide open to new ideas. These days, in fact, her Colorado-based activities are all about promoting new ideas. Coupounas is director of the first fully staffed field office of B... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
the research has been far slower than it should be.” Van Etten is committed to improving the process on the business and management side. He is promoting the concept of “team science” and trying to increase the sharing of data and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
of Antares is to harness the power of private enterprise to promote public health." As part of its research and educational activity, Antares deploys joint HBS and HSPH student field-study teams around the world to work with health... View Details