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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
Whoever coined the adage, "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it," must have had David Hughes in mind. Cheerful and rock steady, Hughes demonstrates an uncanny ability to continually absorb new projects and activities. As... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
R. David Thomas
A high school dropout, Thomas began his career running four Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. In 1969, he opened his first Wendy's Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. Thomas focused Wendy's successful marketing and advertising on simple, good tasting food. View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- 03 Jan 2016
- News
Amy Cuddy’s ‘Presence’ and Shonda Rhimes’s ‘Year of Yes’
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. In 1984, at the age of 29, View Details
David M. Ogilvy
Though he founded the advertising giant that is best known for its hard-sell approach, Ogilvy himself is known for his creativity and for championing the softer side of advertising. Despite the minimal profits earned by such an approach,... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 18 May 2017
- News
Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
unknowingly bring different taken-for-granted assumptions about how to carry out this or that technical procedure to collaboration. Reprinted by permission of Emerald Publishing Ltd. Excerpted from Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex,... View Details
- Book Review
Review of Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies, by David E. Nye
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies, by David E. Nye." Business History Review 72, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 485–488.
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
David Bradley’s ambitions for the first 40 years of his life were to enter politics, he is now at peace with the fact that public office is not his calling. That peace is buoyed by his success as an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Feb 2019
- HBS Seminar
Davide Malacrino, International Monetary Fund
- Blog
Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety
Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, has long studied the performance of teams in the workplace. Her latest book is The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the... View Details
David H. McConnell, Jr.
McConnell, Jr. substantially enlarged Avon. He increased the company's product offerings by 400% and lead Avon to become one of the largest cosmetics companies in the United States. View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- Book Review
Book Review of "How to Change the World," by David Bornstein, Oxford University Press, 2004
By: Mark R. Kramer
Kramer, Mark R. Book Review of "How to Change the World," by David Bornstein, Oxford University Press, 2004. Stanford Social Innovation Review 2, no. 1 (Summer 2004): 77.
- July 2022
- Case
David Crane’s Clean(er) Energy Strategy at NRG
By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Tom Quinn
In 2015, David Crane was the CEO of NRG, the second-largest energy producer in the United States. NRG got most of its power from fossil fuels, but Crane – hired as CEO in 2003 as NRG emerged from bankruptcy – had invested heavily in alternative energy, loudly... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Leadership; Corporate Governance; Transformation; Alternative Energy; Energy Generation; Climate Change; Corporate Accountability; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry; United States
Serafeim, George, Michael W. Toffel, and Tom Quinn. "David Crane’s Clean(er) Energy Strategy at NRG." Harvard Business School Case 623-005, July 2022.
- Book Review
Review of Understanding American Economic Decline, edited by Michael A. Bernstein and David E. Adler
By: Willis Emmons
Emmons, Willis. "Review of Understanding American Economic Decline, edited by Michael A. Bernstein and David E. Adler." Journal of Economic History 55, no. 2 (June 1995): 448–453.
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
Photographed by Webb Chappell In March 2010, the 1787 drafting of the United States Constitution became breaking news. The members of the Texas State Board of Education had convened in Austin to review the state’s history and other social... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto fielded questions about their article in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Garvin and Roberto discuss the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace