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- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
growing rapidly and modernizing its military as fast as it can, and will be a major threat beginning in about another ten years. Even Europe, which is now trying to move unification forward by anti-Americanism (which we cannot stop, no... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
hardest assignments. He drafted plans to institute new military regulations, to reform the inspector general's office, and—most remarkably—to reorganize the entire army . Despite his emotional insecurities, he had total confidence in his... View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Blog Post
We pulled it off: The Inaugural LGBTQ Conference at Harvard
Business School and at the Batten Hall Hives. The morning featured a series of conversations on topics including being LGBTQ in the military and being a queer athlete. We also had speakers talk about their experiences in areas such as... View Details
- 18 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump
longer possible to hide in the shadows. Ken Frazier’s example now resounds. Leaders of all five military branches have made public statements against racism. Republican Congressional leaders are questioning President Trump’s statements on... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
role. However, Gino will push you to question why some rules exist, and think about what would happen if you did things differently. Rebel Talent profiles successful business owners, pilots, magicians, and military leaders to highlight... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
hands-on practitioners to the faculty. Cheerfully characterizing his faculty appointment as "Dennis: Act III," the energetic Hightower became a senior lecturer in 1996 and a professor of management in 1997 following an exemplary business career and a stellar eight-year... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
the West, Chai hopes a more favorable political climate will allow her to return home. Chai's leadership and organizational abilities were honed early. When she was ten, her mother and father, both military doctors, put her in charge of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
consistency in our guiding principles, such as supporting human rights, without sacrificing much-needed nuance and variation in strategy (e.g., backing military intervention in one case but not another). Third, diplomacy should be guided... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
ready to move beyond their self-interest to the interests of others, such as patients, clients, students, parishioners, the nation (in the case of military professionals), etc. Professionals adopt publicly announced ethical standards for... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
business from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Grenoble in 1992. Following military service, he took a consulting position with Bossard Consultants, a Zurich, Switzerland-based firm that had him working with technology clients... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
peace in Indochina was signed by one-third of the student body and later publicly denounced by other students who felt the gesture misrepresented the majority's opinion at the School. Bearded "peaceniks" faced off in heated debate with Vietnam vets who still wore View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- Web
Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
WWII, the MBA Program is paused and the transition to Wartime Schools begins with the creation of the Navy Support School. Dean Donham writes that the flexibility of the case method has allowed the "successful conversion of our curriculum to war conditions." 1943 600... View Details
- Web
1.5 Attendance | MBA
appointments or other emergency childcare needs. Observance of religious beliefs. Personal illness (see below for details). Recruiting (see below for details). Required military service. Serious illness in the student's immediate family.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
Moir Donelson's first year at West Point wasn't easy. "Brains," as his Southside Chicago buddies called him, was valedictorian, class president, and a football star at his high school, yet he found it difficult to make a C average at the famously rigorous View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
every country in the world. "One of the high points of that trip," recalls Corti, "was flying over and touching down on the endless plains of Russia. You realize how enormous the country is and the folly of trying to conquer it." Military... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Force Academy. While completing his military service, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned master’s and doctoral degrees. “I worked really hard,” he says of his time at Oxford. “I was sitting next to brilliant people who were... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
turmoil of a military dictatorship, hyperinflation, and a guerrilla war that killed 70,000 Peruvians. Then, with the country stable, she faced a pressing issue and turned to HBS for help. Accepted into the Owner/President Management (OPM)... View Details
- Profile
Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
analytics, but truly appreciate aesthetics. I’m very conscious of my inner tension between analytical and creative thinking.” Following her mathematical and sciences baccalaureate, she pursued liberal arts at an all-girl military boarding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
dabbled in military journalism (as much a misnomer, Navasky says, as military music), after which he enrolled at Yale Law School. At Yale, he cofounded and spent much of his time working on Monocle, a... View Details