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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
we can test our findings, knowledge, and theories developed elsewhere, as well as define new hypotheses that can be tested in other areas. We haven't just discovered Asia today, but we do need to strengthen... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
in college." Kapoor puts his time-management skills to the test by playing a leadership role in a host of other HBS activities as well. Interested in the convergence of the various media, in 1995 he spearheaded the formation of an... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
of your work? “Working for a hunger-relief organization during a pandemic has been tremendously challenging. We’ve had to respond quickly to meet the rapidly increasing need in our communities, which seemed to double overnight. We have focused on learning as quickly as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
paying her salespeople on commission, she offered generous wages and team-based bonuses. Moreover, her salespeople were instructed to encourage customers to test products and to help them find the best products for their skin types, not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Major Career Transitions by Michael D. Watkins (PhDDS ’92) (Harvard Business Press) Although leaders get their toughest tests in career transitions, far too often they fail to move effectively into new roles. Watkins shows how to survive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
forced business closings due to contentious negotiations between the unions and the state and other employers. A real black swan. This has worsened an economy already weakened by the global financial crisis. Such conditions test the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Holzinger, Peggy Jones, and Robin Wigger, all MBA 1970) moved into a suite in McCulloch in January 1969 for a test run. "Walking across that bridge at 7:30 every morning is just too damn cold," one of the unnamed four told the Harbus.... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
suggested that the health-care industry is also ripe for disruption. Technological innovations such as improved testing and diagnostic equipment and more targeted drugs could soon break down the existing hierarchy between specialists,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class discussions. I loved the case method as a process for testing ideas. It... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the economist’s normal pastimes of rummaging through data sets, crunching numbers, and testing theories. But one day, he found himself hung up on the opening line of a teaching case: DuPont was considering entering the titanium dioxide... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
whole approach to decision making. It made me want to get the smartest people I could find who disagreed with me so I could stress test my opinions. I used to think there was making money and there was philanthropy. Then I realized... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
of HBS scholars have identified new perspectives for evaluating complex problems, launching new fields like strategy and new concepts like the balanced scorecard in the process. Research infuses our curriculum, where ideas are tested and... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Leonard and Lynn Paine, for helping him expand his thinking about the role of business and his own career approach. “Joe was very insightful,” he says. “He really helped me create a lifelong learning program for myself.” Crespin’s resolve and resiliency would be View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing a lot of View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
This requires companies to be astute about how they prototype and test. IDEO adheres to the “three Rs” rule: rough, rapid, and right. For example, when testing the ergonomics of a new type of telephone receiver, prototypes can be carved... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
good candidates for the program? Falik: Global Citizen Year is a leadership program, so we are looking each year for the highest-potential young people we can find. We take everyone through a rigorous selection process where we’re not looking at View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
as far as testing a prototype in Canada before technical problems torpedoed the project. He pursued another promising technology that had been developed in the 1980s by researchers at NYU, but money was a problem: The hedge fund that... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
their own. And so that gave me a unique opportunity to really get to see and to test who's going to be in this situation and are going to be able to achieve what we need to achieve with the highest probability. And then finally, I'd say... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
their own organizations and for the greater good, BiGS will engage with alumni and other business leaders to develop and test research-based solutions. This partnership, he says, will create a feedback loop to help professors understand... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
but was glad she was able to curb the infection rate.” The city, she added, also received $30 million in federal loans for small business as well as food and rent assistance. Under her leadership, the homeless have been tested and moved... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley