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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
of a major research project that addresses whether rapidly growing Chinese universities will set the world standard for excellence in the 21st century. When I talked with Nohria recently about the year ahead for HBS, I asked him to assess... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
Anthony Mayo—members of the School’s Organizational Behavior Unit recognized for their excellence in the classroom—quickly realized they needed to reinvent the way they taught. “We had to rethink basic factors, such as what information is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
and to the institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBA Career Office Wins Award
The MBA Career & Professional Develop-ment office has received the 2009 IBM Excellence in Career Services Award. The award “recognizes academic career centers that provide outstanding commitment and partnerships to IBM recruiters,” said... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
encountered at a subsequent role in Raytheon’s missile defense program. Highly technical specifications were often tracked in low-tech Excel spreadsheets, which meant engineers lost considerable time to paperwork. That was frustrating,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Community Building
promoting excellence in and access to education. All of Dr. and Mrs. Chao’s daughters—Elaine (MBA 1979), Jeanette, May (MBA 1985), Christine, Grace (MBA 1997), and Angela (MBA 2001)—received undergraduate and graduate degrees from leading... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
delivers easy-to-use, feature-rich Web site and club management services to alumni clubs and associations. The move came in response to requests from clubs for more technical assistance, says John Beckvold, director of finance and View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
with a group of other investment professionals, has $250 million under management and specializes in later-stage invest-ments in companies that could use a boost in capital to grow substantially. “Our operating philosophy is to invest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
explains. “Any brand has the evergreen challenge,” says Vicki P. Haupt (MBA 1979), a senior advisor at Steuben Glass in New York who operates her own consultancy. “It’s a great art to define what relevancy means for your brand while... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
Baxter people worked first as assistants to senior managers and then were put into project-based assignments where they learned about different parts of the company. Within a couple of years, they were given responsibility for running their own View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
Raffaella Sadun: I would add that their lack of focus might be the reason why it’s so hard for them to actually excel in implementation. The hospital is a complex, multiproduct organization, and spreading your resources everywhere might... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
alternative courses of action or alignment. And, says Ferracone, “it is an excellent communication tool to facilitate productive discussion between compensation committees and management, and between companies and their investors.” Asked... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
Harvard Business School’s continued excellence requires ongoing investment—in people, programs, and ideas. The HBS economic model is tightly aligned with its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, where the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
builds. We think that our distinctive competence is operating excellence and the way our people show up for our guests — which isn’t to say that the Hiltons and Marriotts aren’t trying to be good operators.... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
the Electrolux Group’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you get into marketing? At HBS, the courses I excelled at were in marketing—Consumer Marketing with Professors Gail McGovern and Youngme Moon, and Strategic Marketing in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
Dr. Peter L. Slavin (MBA '90) nods toward a long line stretching back from a gourmet coffee counter. "That's one of our most utilized facilities," he says with a smile. "The joke around here is that the hospital operation is a loss leader... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
(subtitled How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership) includes new material intended to guide fledgling managers through specific operational issues, such as dealing with organizational politics, influencing peers and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
father’s that evolved into a hobby that turned into a business,” she says. “We not only wanted to be excellent stewards, we wanted to enhance its value.” As managing partner of Knudsen Vineyards, Knudsen Cowles now provides strategic... View Details
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
options; as a result, about 20 percent of his work force became millionaires when the company went public. "We shared the profits with everyone and gave those staying on an excellent opportunity," Hawes proudly noted. Hawes, who grew up... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- News
A Winning Formula
human-relations skills and perspective he felt he needed to excel in the corporate environment. “I found the answers on how to manage and lead,” he said, “in a most unexpected place—the Bible. I came to believe that people were created in... View Details