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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
extensively on the loyal support of many European HBS alumni, most of whom he had taught. Arnaud de Vitry (MBA ’53) headed up the operations. I had the pleasure of being a member of the team for seven years starting in 1970. They were... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
football team his first year at Dartmouth, before moving over to rugby, a sport he played with bone-breaking gusto throughout college and into HBS. That intensity has been channeled by mentors throughout Keen's life. One such person is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Holger Rathgeber (Portfolio) The authors use a parable of a stressed meerkat community in the Kalahari Desert to consider why organizations rise and fall and how they can rise again in the face of adversity. Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
discussions about the pitfalls that might cause that high rate of failure? The ways in which we resist architecting prenuptial agreements or other ways that could be where we see a lot of analogs from founding teams, the founding teams... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
or friend over the long haul, this book is your essential companion, from beginnings, through the ups and downs, to farewells. You’ll have the support of caregivers who are walking your path, and the inspiring wisdom of counselors—hospice... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
ultimatums or drawing lines in the sand, the kind of petty, superficial responses that really only create enemies. If someone blew up at me, instead of firing him, I'd say, 'Let's work together.' I deferred to the wisdom of my View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
it, you would quit once a week." If the gypsies were to bring their road show to Macondo again, surely the Internet is the latest wonder they would be trumpeting. The conventional wisdom is that Internet development in the region is four... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
adjacent parking lot, which he hopes will be part of a redevelopment project when the nearby Joe Louis Arena, where the Detroit Red Wings hockey team plays, is demolished. “This is an area that eventually is going to get developed. It... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
from whence and why they came, we edge closer to the wisdom that makes being 60-something pretty damned interesting. Jeffrey Jenest (MBA 1978) One student’s teachings Eight years ago, I was a math teacher and principal of a school in... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
a room. He’s gregarious without being dominating. He’ll ask that you tell him to shut up if he’s being an idiot before delivering wisdom that sounds as if it came from the oracle itself. His laugh can fill a space. He asks about a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
The rise of e-commerce. Big data. AI. Given these trends (and many others), there’s no doubt that sales is changing. Yet much of the current conventional wisdom is misleading and not supported by empirical data. In this no-nonsense book,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
surprised us, both by revealing the extent of entrepreneurial involvement among HBS alumni and by giving clear evidence of the path to entrepreneurship," observes Stevenson. "It debunked the common wisdom that some people are born to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. He describes how he and his View Details