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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
sweet spot; designing the offer to create customer value and secure differential advantage; integrating to serve the customer; and measuring what matters. Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me about Management by Gordon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
recession as feeling “like someone turned off the faucet” in construction. Still, Magagnini hopes IceStone can break even this year and turn a profit next year. The green building market is with her: McGraw-Hill Construction projects it... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
microinsurance market. She finished HBS as a Leadership Fellow, launching Accion International’s microinsurance program in 2005. A follow-up project at Capital One, introducing prepaid debit cards to unbanked customers in the United... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
requires continuing innovation in all of our educational programs. What we see ahead is a need for leaders with strong general management skills - people who know how to get things done and are able to inspire others. These qualities have... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
them to forgo returns at all.” An Inside Look at Leading the UK and US Response to COVID As the US and the UK raced to develop a COVID vaccine this year, two HBS alums found themselves at the forefront of the effort. How they grappled with View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
and for eleven years at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. as an institutional salesman and portfolio manager before launching his first entrepreneurial venture, Feeley & Willcox, Inc., in 1986. Part of that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
discussion back then.” He thought about his work, about the projects he had undertaken around the world that had left him satisfied and about those that made him proud; and, finally, he thought about a meeting with Vera Cordeiro, a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
college, Ma worked as a project manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where she first realized she had an interest in business. “I had this insatiable curiosity about HP’s customers and the company’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
of this book is that the volatility through the messy middle of any project is about achieving a positive slope. Your job is to manage the lows and maintain a focus on optimizing the highs.” CLASSIC... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
four-day, no-fee, no-credit class during January break. Taught by HBS senior lecturer Derek van Bever (MBA 1988), along with Baker Foundation Professor of Management Arthur Segel, Harvard Divinity School Practitioner in Residence John... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
these are usually project management skills and general business analytic skills, which any industry can use.” What you say in an interview is important, but how you say it also counts. To make a strong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
can take you a long way.” The following year, at the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (AG Bell) in Washington, D.C., after illness and death struck top executives there, Sommer managed key tasks and View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
the Iran Center for Management (Tehran). He was part of a team of HBS professors whose advice to the top executives of Nestlé S.A. led to the creation of IMEDE, the European management school in Switzerland.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
you do can be put in three boxes: one, manage the present; two, selectively forget the past; and three, create the future. Box 1 is competition for the present, and Box 2 and Box 3 are competition for the future. Both are important. The... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
gentrification and daily quality of life,” says John Peters (MBA 1986), who worked on two separate projects for the Mayor’s Office for Civic Innovation (MOCI): the Strategy Project, focused on clarifying the MOCI’s vision and mission; and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
faculty members who have research projects in the Valley—including M. Diane Burton, Srikant M. Datar, Walter Kuemmerle, and Richard F. Meyer—also praise the new California outpost. To explain what he finds useful about the Valley, Datar,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
events will take place. "At the Smithsonian," Segerlind continues, "I managed a large staff and a multimillion-dollar budget and had frequent contact with donors and supporters. This is a totally different kind of job for me, in which I... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological... View Details