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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
and Budget, 1977-80, 1985-87 Northern Air Freight and Danzas Corporation, 1987-90 Why HBS? "I took a year off from college to work at Boeing. There were rows of engineers sitting at desks. After about six months, I decided I'd rather manage, so I shifted my View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
mistakes might be punished, on these drilling platforms the orientation was more around learning from failures. Management put in place explicit processes for analyzing what went wrong and implementing procedures to address the problem.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
every case through that lens." O'Neill also became involved in the School's mentoring program with the Taft Middle School, and as General Academic Council representative for his section, he was a driving force in reshaping the orientation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
ceremony, held at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos on December 9. Nwogugu is the executive director of Junior Achievement Nigeria, a nonprofit economic education organization that prepares young people for a successful future. She brought JA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
engineering orientation into business. How do you explain Starbucks' success? In the past, coffee was treated as a commodity, with quality secondary to cost. So when we offered a terrific product in an appealing environment, with all 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
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
equipment and manufacturing. “This is about trying to build food system activity all around different elements of the food system,” says Kendall. “It’s reflective of our orientation to the market approach.” That approach harkens back to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
look to Lance and see that there are no limits.” An investor-relations manager at Moore Capital Management, based in New York City, Berté also helps lead an orientation group for patients preparing for stem-cell transplants. “I love my... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Stevenson. "Our entrepreneurially oriented executive programs, the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) and the Presidents' Seminar, which work with presidents of entrepreneurially oriented firms, rely... 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
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
of bits and pieces that we’ve been working on into a coherent scaffold,” says Hawkins. “It helps orient us and helps us think about our research and where to go next.” VP of Research Subutai Ahmad also employs the puzzle analogy to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
Association's task force on admissions, were recognized for their efforts to help develop a long-term strategy to boost admission of women to the MBA Program. David Hughes, section president, student senator, and HBS Show production manager, was praised by Clark for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
a primary source of inspiration. Curiel, 18, walked away from that same deadly crash with minor injuries. He sees some symbolism in the fact that his father was making the trip from Oregon to California to take him to freshman orientation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
segment called Orientation to Management, a general introduction to concepts, tools, and problem-framing methodologies. In addition, students work on developing interpersonal skills needed to be an effective leader. The next twelve weeks,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 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
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
short time frames," "the role of business as society begins to seek more balance between material acquisition and spiritually oriented directions." Both alumni groups, especially younger grads, saw business schools as having only the same... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
orientation that manifests itself in investing, in business decision-making, and in our politics. One of society’s most vexing problems is the relentlessly short-term orientation that manifests itself in... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)