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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
In early April, nearly ninety HBS faculty members came together for a half-day symposium on “Strategy, Values, and Governance in the Rise and Fall of Enron.” Organized by the School's Division of Research and moderated by Professor... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms In their new book Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch and former Bain & Company... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Harvard Business School with the hope of returning to his banking career. “Harvard showed me a whole different aspect to banking,” he says. “Professor Charlie Williams, who taught Commercial Banking, was my mentor. He made banking... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
have had all manner of helpers and partners along the way.” But their timing was right, and Bridgespan caught the wave of demand for results over good intentions. It’s a wave that shows no sign of cresting. Courtesy View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
school in the village of one of his former business partners. Also while at HBS Laguë met Charlene Li (MBA 1993), who today is founder and managing partner of the Altimeter Group, a technology consulting firm. Both played in the View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
The weather in New York City was dreary drizzle on a fall day last October 25, but on the third floor of 42nd Street's Grand Hyatt Hotel, there was pure sparkle in the air. More than one hundred HBS alumnae from all over the country and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Chairman, President & Chief Executive, The Procter & Gamble Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Hamilton College, 1969 A.B., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The case study method had such an enormous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Stem cells have been much in the news recently. But the hot-button ethical and political questions currently surrounding this area of research may ultimately prove moot, if the past is any guide. Business history shows that if the desire... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Sydney, 1954 B.A., Economics, Music University of Sydney, 1957 LL.B. LESSONS FROM HBS “The School gave me the opportunity... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
everything going. I came to really appreciate them. I remember a machinist showing me how he created the smallest, most precise parts to restore power in a power plant. He had such pride of workmanship, so much knowledge and initiative.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
MAYO: Since the 1970s, the MBA has become a necessary credential to pursue the inside track to corporate power. So much of what business schools teach is focused on making the right managerial decisions at a particular moment in time,” notes View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
School in the fall of 2008, he had been a US Army captain serving in Iraq, but it wasn't until his second year at HBS that a chance conversation directed him to a Veterans Administration program that ultimately paid for his MBA. Motivated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the concept—a task made much easier thanks... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
own affairs and showing its determination to do things right, there is a tremendous opportunity for learning." For his 1992 book, South Africa: Prospects for Successful Transition, which he coedited, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
audience for your HBS Class Day speech, you have an extremely popular TED Talk, you're an in-demand speaker generally. In the book, you recount your first speech, though, as a fifth grader in Miss Davis's class. Can you talk a little bit... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the Harvard Business School campus. One... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
on an undefeated team that earned a #5 national ranking, Swearengin ended his playing career as part of a thrilling 38-31 victory over the Washington Huskies in the 1993 Rose Bowl.) Football, Swearengin says, gave him self-confidence, taught him personal... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
shines on White House honorees - illuminated these issues, and their HBS champions, in high relief. It was an indication of how much these matters have come to the fore. At a February 11 awards ceremony and daylong program of events in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons