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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Cable Gal
in cable and telecom equipment sales — a field where few women are found — it was a wake-up call. "My son basically said, 'You're not doing your job,'" McCollough told the Roanoke Times (September 23, 2001) in a lengthy article that examined the management View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
essential relationship, including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expectations, and tactics for negotiating priorities. The Adventures of an IT... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
20th century, who your parents were, whom you knew, and the community you belonged to were key factors. For business leaders, being part of the right society might also mean being either Episcopalian or Presbyterian. Regardless of the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
marketing costs down by targeting the teens and twenties age group and by focusing — unlike some competitors — mainly on selling mobile phones. Although Phones 4u offers a range of mobile communication and entertainment equipment,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be performed from home, managers must learn how to... View Details
- 08 May 2023
- News
Face-to-Face Time with Your Employees Still Matters
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
sector, HBS professor Bill George noted that business leaders often are picked by the wrong criteria. “We mistakenly make choices based on charisma, image, and style when we should be choosing based on character, integrity, and... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is founder and CEO of the financial data firm Bloomberg LP, the former mayor of New York City, and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, he talks about the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
In the late aughts, Joe Burton (PMD 75, 2000) looked like a success story. In 2006, after a successful career in consulting and the C-suite of numerous public companies, he was named COO of McCann Worldgroup, overseeing $1.5 billion in marketing View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials, and talking to miners and local community members. “I needed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
bushfire season that burned 46 million acres and then by the coronavirus pandemic. As Weckert spoke from her home in Melbourne in October 2020, the city remained under strict lockdown. “Both of these things have had an enormous impact for our businesses, but also for... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
share everything and to be as inclusive as possible. Now every official communication is also closed captioned and translated into three languages. McKenna is adamant that the path back to trust starts with “acknowledging where we screwed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
Mariner Photo courtesy Jonathan Mariner “There aren’t many activities that bring a community together so quickly — without respect to age, race, and gender lines — as a winning ball club,” observes Jonathan D. Mariner, the veteran sports... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- News
Finding My Leadership Voice
- 09 Feb 2011
- News
Still Shining through Florida's Clouds
developer of planned communities in the Ft. Myers-Naples area. Despite tough going for his firm, “Lucas’s reputation in business circles remains untarnished” and “few people are as influential” in southwest Florida, according to the Gulf... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 04 Jun 2020
- News
What Leading with Optimism Really Looks Like
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
Above: photo by JJ Sulin My senior year of high school, I got a job as a teacher’s aide at an inner-city school in Hartford, Connecticut. I saw firsthand the difference between the education I was getting five miles away and the education those kids were getting. It... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
7 Skills Needed to Thrive in the C-Suite
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
back in-house for quality control. Emphasizing simplicity, clarifying the core of its business, and engaging the larger community helped save the LEGO Group. Although Kundstorp was not a Kristiansen by birth, his management View Details