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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
historic fundraising effort brought together the HBS community to celebrate and strengthen the School’s mission. Spangler “Each of you has made really wonderful decisions in your career,” Spangler told the dinner guests. “I suspect that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
value. The “something like the truth” scenario involves one party not being totally candid about facts that could negatively affect the outcome of a deal. The “doing the devil’s bidding” scenario pits one’s personal values against the expectations of an employer. To... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
Leadership and Innovation “The fellowship was helpful in making decisions for my life in the sense that by minimizing my student loan burden, I was able to really pursue the career that I was most excited about.” Josue Zapata (MD/MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
pulled into the middle of a difficult business issue or a white-hot decision moment as a kind of internal coach. That is incredibly fulfilling from an impact perspective—being trusted as an advisor when it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
learning on campus and—by partnering with Harvard Business Publishing—in business classrooms around the world. The required Strategy course, for example, includes the “Strategic Brew” simulation, which puts all 900 first-year MBA students through an intensive,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
marketing specialist with an engineering background, DiCamillo immediately set about restructuring Polaroid, filling key positions with new people, "refreshing the brand," as he puts it, and instituting cost-cutting measures to stem a decade of lagging performance.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
the record of a lecture to an alumni club, which my secretary and I deciphered and did our best to transform into something publishable. With no cues for sentence or paragraph breaks, this transformation from disk to text was difficult... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Bloom admits. "It's not difficult conceptually, but as a practical matter, it's challenging to conduct baseline surveys before an investment and to track and measure students for the years that follow." With that understanding, View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
purpose into their core operations, generating powerful win-win decisions that benefit everyone, with little compromise—if any—required on any side. A manufacturing company might change wasteful processes, for instance, using less energy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Turning Point: One Story at a Time
tears, they were not tears of anger or admonishment—her main fear was that I would have a very difficult and lonely life. The thing about coming out is that it’s not one conversation, one time. I had already told my older sister; in time... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
development. He is still active on the organization’s Canadian board. After that, he headed to Ethiopia, where he worked to address the growing famine in the region in the early 1980s, even before it became worldwide news. The phone kept ringing. “I was always... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
reconfigure what they were doing. By the 25th time, I said, "This is getting so boring. I'd like to write it in a book so I don't have to talk to these people, and just give them the book and tell them to read it." That really started the commencement of writing the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
yet in high school) not play tackle football. Swearengin made the difficult decision that he could no longer support tackle football for kids 13 or under; however, his recommendation to the board that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
problem aside and turn it off. If you can’t do that, you really won’t be able to do this job. What was toughest part of the job? It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
controls the recruitment and tenure of directors, sets the board’s agenda, selects the information that flows to the board, and oversees the process of evaluating CEO performance, directors will find it difficult to shift the power... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
remission, Somani drew on the lessons learned during that difficult time to launch an inspirational speaker platform called Silver Linings in an effort to champion resilience, advocacy, and mental wellbeing. Somani believes that silver... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
resilience in the face of difficult challenges. “However,” he added, “I think we should all be deeply troubled about the way our political system is functioning.” Rubin also urged the HBS audience, well known for its pro bono and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
introduction in the early ’90s of low-fat cookies and other healthier snack foods under the SnackWell’s brand for Nabisco. In the first year, SnackWell’s grew to a $400 million business. Store managers had such a difficult time keeping... View Details