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- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Honoring the Code
Michael G. Mullen (AMP 109, 1991) was the 17th Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. He retired in 2011 following a distinguished military career. He is also a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
will become an annual event. Jefferson, a 1988 West Point graduate and former captain in the Special Forces, planned to stay in the military as long as he was “serving with elite units and enjoying being in the Army.” A training accident... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic Sea. But these attempts at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
and other personal effects amid the peripatetic military lifestyle gave Hall and some HBS classmates the idea for an online marketplace exclusively for military personnel, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
of their talented employees by managing and developing them. It explains what it means to orient one's leadership style around a commitment to finding and cultivating high-performers. An American Journey by Mal Mixon (MBA 1968) (Smart Business Network Inc.) How to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
decision to apply to the doctoral program so I could develop that understanding and share it with others. Secretary Allison reinforced the importance of being a strategic leader. Over time, I’ve had the opportunity to reflect a little... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
terrorism. Bremer, who has also worked as a special or executive assistant to six secretaries of state, entered the private sector in 1989, becoming managing director of Kissinger Associates, a strategic consulting firm. In 2000, he moved... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Horse-Powered Healing
includes experience at Citicorp, Conseco, and the Boston Consulting Group, and, more recently, leadership of an academic research institute. She first became involved in the center as a volunteer strategic consultant, but soon found... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- News
Dedicated to a public service mission
for the 100,000 Jobs Mission for military veterans. The White House Fellowship brings Hunt’s devotion to his country to a governmental level, where he hopes to effect change on a national platform. “I have a... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
value of loyalty,” he continues. “The Marines taught me to judge people by a simple rule: If you’re running up a hill under fire, will the person at your side stand by you? This value has determined how I’ve hired and worked with people.” Following his View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
world (Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2004). Wolfensohn noted that, in his ten years at the Bank’s helm, he has met with poor people in more than 100 countries and found that “they want security, but they define it differently than we do. For them, it is not about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
wasn’t any heroics. My house was outside the Green Zone. Our family home had been taken over by the former regime and turned into a Baath Party military intelligence headquarters. When the regime fell, we took back our property. The place... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
slide continues. For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 81 women overall and 77 women of color get promoted. This is what McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez call “the broken rung,” and its View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
strong, decisive leadership. Although he is far too humble to admit it, his own experience as a naval commander as well as serving in the United States’ highest military position, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a case in point.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
research and action in this type of underfunded effort, what Clara Wu Tsai calls the “white spaces.” She notes, “I believe in being strategic and bold and in trying to fill the gaps, funding high-impact ideas and visionary leaders that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
uneducated, and ill-equipped population; and exhausted resources. The military leaders considered the daunting prospects of simmering border and ethnic instability, continued castigation, an imprisoned and widely revered charismatic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
the Japanese noticed and, on December 7, 1941, copied the military exercise exactly. Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College by Doug Lemov (MBA ’04) (Jossey-Bass) Lemov offers View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
people the Americans were talking to—in the push to rid the world of the threat of the Islamic State. You depict street-by-street battles and larger, strategic operations in vivid detail, giving readers a real sense of place. Can you tell... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The War for Talent, by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod, presents a strategic view of what managers must do to hire and keep the best employees. Drawing on five years of research, including surveys of thirteen thousand... View Details