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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
radically different company today," he says. "It's small enough that my fingerprints are everywhere -- you can get your arms around this place." Interbake's smaller size allows it to turn on a dime when it comes to supplying products to meet fickle consumer demand. Its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
reached middle and high school, the gap between the high-achieving students and those who needed academic support grew considerably. A few years later, Stanford University released a study that confirmed her observations. “Chicago had... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
for change, but is not particularly optimistic. “It is the number one social, economic, and financial crisis facing the world, and you’d never know it ,” he said, noting that it is the obligation of these prominent universities to make... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
a lot of value from the standpoint that it is a universal statistic that’s applicable across players and positions. It’s really easy from a topline perspective to explain to someone: This is how many wins a player got you.” Explaining... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
On April 25, Harvard Business School launched a campaign that will position the School for leadership in management education in the 21st century. The primary objectives of The Harvard Business School Campaign are to: Inspire significantly increased View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The survey... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
interest,” notes Mills. “We like to be the capital that comes in to grow the business to the next level — build the next plant, make an acquisition, or expand the brand.” What makes Solera unique, she adds, is its research-intensive focus... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges, the authors provide 30 detailed, real-world examples to transform the way you approach problems and take you to the next View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to transform HBS internally, nurture relationships with the University and our neighbors, and foster a shared vision for racial equity. The CDIO will have a key role in influencing the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
academic scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he competed for and won a spot on the football team, and earned a varsity letter and several championship rings. Despite playing behind a Heisman Trophy winner and four NFL draft... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Currently all of the FTSE 100 companies have at least one woman on their boards, with 263 women holding director’s positions, 100 more than in 2011, according to a study by the Cranfield University School of Management. “We sat down and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
people to lie and game the system. Turbocharged incentives require turbocharged controls. Board Oversight One of the mysteries in the Enron case is how Enron’s board of directors failed on so many levels to detect or deter questionable... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
University computing center to be run through a computer there so that new HBS 8x5 cards could be printed containing the new data. Then the new cards were proofed against the old ones. So it turns out the late 1970s were not, in fact,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
i-lab Buzz
for Leadership Development) course. A tour of the building, the former offices of PBS’s WGBH-TV, shows how dramatic the 10-month transformation has been. A warren of narrow hallways with low ceilings and dark-tinted windows has been replaced by three View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
inherent, universal desire, one that the beauty industry meets and manipulates. Passing the Smell Test The broadest level of globalization remained in toiletry brands. Toiletries were the only category other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
tick — putting structure to chaos and solving problems from big to small.” Before discovering what truly excited him, Wu was on a more traditional course. After graduating with an accounting degree from the University of Connecticut in... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
if or when they want them. In terms of similarities between the generations, when we asked our 4,005 respondents for advice for women of color in the workplace, the universal answer was never give up. With this View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
deeply that this School is experienced by some as not providing a level playing field. How we address that is a vexing and complex matter. All over the world, businesses are learning to deal with a more diverse workforce. If Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
In his State of the School address at last fall’s reunion, Dean Nohria laid out his vision for HBS organized in what we can call the Five I’s: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion (making the HBS experience more of a View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons