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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and Pramodita Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Companies owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
“We believe, where political processes fail to come up with solutions for our society, equipping businesses with the right ideas is a very important aspect of dealing with sustainability issues. Therefore,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
continue as planned. San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City recently hosted launch events for The Campaign for Harvard Business School. Each event included a powerful multimedia presentation showcasing the tremendous impact HBS alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
HBSAA of Israel Sponsors Middle East Outreach
population of just six million, Israel now has more stocks listed on the Nasdaq than any other country except the United States and Canada. And as the peace process continues, business opportunities in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
who could double as a penny-wise administrator and a fundraiser. A mutual friend at Greylock recommended Timothy Armour (MBA 1975) to McCance as a potential consultant. Armour, who had some 20 years’ experience in development and operations at nonprofits, including... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
importantly, they are my neighbors, my colleagues, and my friends.” Gower sees few differences between effectively running a corporation and a local government office, although he thinks the business world could learn a thing or two from... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
HBS Business Plan Contest, and the organizer of the High Growth Career Fair, was hailed by Clark for his understanding of "the process of setting high standards and empowering others." The Dean's Award,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Smarter Together: How Communities Are Shaping the Next Revolution in Business By Rob Bernshteyn (MBA 2001) Greenleaf Book Group Press Driving value today requires information. Lots of information. Most of us are becoming good... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
It was in grade school that James D. Gibbons (MBA 1994) first began to lose his sight, a process he retraces in terms of his ability to cope at school. “I started moving up to the front of the class but not because I was smart,” laughs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
virtually no way to manage the process and the funding required to do it all yourself. Either you’ll end up giving the business away to an investor to help you pay to do everything now, or you’ll likely be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
has revamped more than just the design, says Yong, a former Bain consultant and Acumen Global Fellow who joined the automaker in 2016. “We have also rethought the conventional automotive business model itself,” with specific decisions in... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
both communities and businesses in the coming decades, HBS professors are making a significant contribution to the urban recovery movement. Building Sustainable Communities Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
staffing business should be cash-flow positive quickly in a given market, so focus on building critical mass dynamics in the top 25 health care markets. —Paul Sims (MBA 2002) Much to my surprise, Lyft’s success proves that often it is two... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
objectively. In this excerpt from “Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently)” in the June 2005 issue of Long Range Planning, Professor Amy Edmondson and coauthor Mark Cannon (PHDOB ’98) offer a process for analyzing what went... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
keep that history, and that original mission, in focus. “David recognized early on that the web was absolutely transforming the way the media business in general functioned,” says James Bennet, the Atlantic’s editor in chief and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
passion for this nonprofit led him to get involved as a volunteer. That passion, as well as his experience in business and as a board member for one of OB’s four wilderness schools, made him an ideal candidate for the president’s position... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business Press) Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his 1996 book, Leading Change, Professor Emeritus Kotter revealed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
management processes — learning about relationships with other people and how those are often paramount in business situations. Also, learning about myself . . . the things I’m good at, and what I need to... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to dramatically change how View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page