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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
perform perfectly. They focus myopically on success. That drive can lead to tremendous professional achievements. But as careers progress, continued success requires the ability to change and adapt to new conditions, to take the risk of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authors argue that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions, half of which are unsuccessful because this key factor is neglected. This practical manual helps managers optimize and streamline their growth... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Stevenson, conference chair and chair of the School's Entrepreneurial Management unit, will describe the key insights HBS has developed in fifty years of teaching entrepreneurship; Professor Teresa M. Amabile will report on her findings from an ongoing study of the... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
social impact, measured by such factors as higher tax contributions and lower health care costs. “Moreover, what people might not quantify,” she says, “is that our alumni’s success stories create positive ripples in their communities and... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
beings working together under various incentive structures and schemes. As a result, incentive and organization design is probably the most important factors in determining whether a business is ultimately successful. And getting that... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
degree to which there was scientific uncertainty around this. And the way in which we needed to address climate change as a major risk factor for businesses, for markets, and for society as a whole. That... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
sustainability risks and opportunities, has heard from a major technology company that they are considering the availability of renewable energy resources in site selection. “It has moved from being tenth on the list of siting criteria to... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
other companies and executives that went remote during the pandemic and are still scared to ask their employees to come back to the office. They don’t want to fight with their employees and risk losing people. They will end up being... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
continues, “without a really clear idea of what I was going to do.” He knew that research and integration with more well-established areas — through cases on entrepreneurship across a variety of disciplines and businesses — would be key View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
death in a quantity equivalent to two grains of salt, has become a major factor contributing to the spike in overdoses. Last year, recognizing the fast-moving and shapeshifting nature of these and other alarming developments, Langford... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
the job. Often claimed, seldom true, “platform” companies are extremely rare. Move faster when you have conviction—other investors are right behind you. The best investors “pay up” and invest at the next opportunity. Valuation matters, but other View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
undertaking that could be worked on as a Holy Grail,” says Daniel J. Holland (MBA ’62), an ARD staffer in the late 1960s. “But he wouldn’t write a check until all the risks were understood.” Creating a Model for Venture Capital Success... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
whether a song or album soars to the top of the charts or plummets to musical oblivion depends on one final factor over which music executives have no control. "It's just the luck of the draw," says Zelnick wryly. Some critics charge that... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Series kicked off September 15 with HBS Professor George Serafeim, who talked about his Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS. Impact-weighted accounts offer a tool for measuring a company’s external impacts on society and the environment, “to be able to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
things don't go as planned, remember to look in the mirror, and don't lose the learning. Leave everything better than you found it. Leslie Hale (MBA 2001), CFO and sVP, RLJ Lodging Trust, Bethesda, Maryland Take advantage of the fact that your MBA affords you the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the fringes? Robert Huckman: What... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Michael and I think about that question,” says Gordon, adding that with the privileges they’ve had, if they don’t take risks in life, they’re wasting it. So, yeah, maybe her parents think she’s a little bit nuts for doing this, she says.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North