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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
promote greater parental participation in the schools. “This was essentially a start-up effort within the department,” Kete says. “The hiring process was managed not by the districts but at each of the city’s schools, something without... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
attendees reflected on the past and offered an action plan for the future, and the premiere screening of the documentary A Woman's Place, a project led by Professor Cynthia Montgomery that featured alumnae across the five decades... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption raised View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
this enterprise will reach well beyond Soldiers Field. "This project will be of great importance in the world of management education," says Clark. "The faculty is determined to make it a success." To... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
present readers with a personal portrait of McArthur as well as an in-depth look at several of the research projects and initiatives that flourished under his leadership. The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
his day. Free refills, finding $5 in a coat pocket, that sort of thing. The blog, called 1000 Awesome Things started garnering a huge following and turned into a series of successful books. Last year, Neil released The Happiness Equation, which began as a nine-month... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
high-level discussion that influences public discourse. Which is Singer’s goal, as a rundown of his projects clearly shows: Spotlight dramatized what can happen when society defers to institutional power—and the massive upheaval that... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
moment, they would appreciate what we’re trying to do and laud it versus feeling like something was taken from them: They would see their parents managing people and striving to accomplish things. I believe all those things that matter to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
degrees in mechanical engineering and economics at Yale and then worked in tech investments at Morgan Stanley and as a project manager at Microsoft. But what Hopkins hoped to learn from the course taught by... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Stranger Things cost about $130,000 a minute by comparison.) Just as Anna Kendrick’s Dummy was originally written as a film, these projects will be serialized in seven- to ten-minute morsels that a viewer could snack on, one at a time, or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting the status quo,” said Dave Prend (MBA ’84), View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
Education, a project is under way to examine the portfolio of offerings to foster what Light calls “a reconception” of thinking about business education for managers at different points in their careers. One... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of the American population. The baby boomers are coming into their fifties, which is a natural time to start... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
would not be on the modern woman's birthday, Christmas, or wedding-gift list. This change certainly looks permanent. But is it? Just note the popularity of Downton Abbey!" The book project became a big part of Wilson's life. "For several... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
Hamilton signed on with Fluke, first as a project manager and most recently as the head of corporate marketing communications. In all those years with Fluke, Hamilton gave very little thought to flying. “I... View Details