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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
reviewed the School's historic focus on general management, its commitment to educating business leaders, the field-based orientation of its curriculum, and the emphasis it has placed on communicating with a broad audience in order to... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
orientation for the students to help demystify Harvard,” says Comer. “I told them their ‘mentors are ordinary folks who have done some extraordinary things in their careers, and now they are here to help you launch your career.’” Students... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm
Heinz Co., and will leave those posts early next year, the newspaper notes. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett noted that Britt Cool spent much of her time at Berkshire aiding struggling companies, including Benjamin Moore & Co. and View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
New Horizons
The Harvard Center Shanghai occupies the entire fifth floor of the HSBC Tower, right of center. The building is a recent addition to the panoramic Pudong district skyline, noted for the futuristic architectural flourishes of signature structures like the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
"when we tried to enlist other companies to join us in this effort, we didn't get any takers. Many viewed race relations as too explosive to touch, while others didn't consider it an issue at all." The Bottom Line With business oriented... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
oriented school — who had entrepreneurship as a central focus.” Resolving the situation once and for all would become one of the major goals of McArthur’s administration. And he had an idea about who might lead the charge. In The... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- News
Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992)
Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992) Suzanne Battit will never forget her first week at Harvard Business School. She loved Orientation and felt particularly lucky to be a member of section D. “Classmates nicknamed us ‘the love section,’ because... 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
general, world-class companies facing global competition do appear to benchmark themselves with global best practices and performance standards.” He defines those aspired-to benchmarks as sound corporate governance, transparency, an View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
the foundation now for a bit over a year, and we didn’t get oriented around this personalized medicine mission until a few months in. So, more or less, we’ve been at this personalized medicine bit for about a year. I have to say the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
today’s students do the same. Supporting People and Programs Barry notes that when he was at the School, there were few students from abroad and only a handful of globally oriented cases discussed, whereas now the numbers for both have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
orientation to general management that is applicable in all situations — speaks to all students regardless of their near-term aspirations. The judges were also interested to see how entrepreneurship was integrated into some other key HBS... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, VC: An American History shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. Author Tom Nicholas tells the riveting story of how the industry arose from the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
The big challenge is to communicate emotion-based intangibles in a market where consumers are oriented toward material things and getting value for their money. We're a big-ticket item, so we have to convey to the consumer the inherent... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
teaches VCPE, maintains a strong financial orientation in the course, because he believes that the valuation of young growth companies - a complex issue often skirted in entrepreneurial education - is even more important when it involves... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
Chao Photo Stuart Cahill As part of the orientation for the MBA Class of 2004, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (MBA '79) told 899 entering students that they had an obligation to help fix the American free-enterprise system. “This... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
information systems tend to mirror the traditional, functionally oriented organizations that they are supposed to help transform. While purchasing the right technology is part of the answer, Coote declared, "There has to be something... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
skill,” wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a business that lost its way. “They let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation business. . . .They were product... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
school was founded by a native of Uganda—and named after his current Massachusetts hometown—to educate AIDS orphans. Oriental rugs Brighton, Mass. Veronica B. Smith Multi-Service Senior Center “For their clients,” says Gogan, “rolling out... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell