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- 10 May 2023
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Alumna Snags an Emmy
Plays) resulted from many hours of user research to understand the unmet needs of sports fans and then months of prototyping and iteration, all of which were hard skills I learned in TOM and the Product View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
fascinated by stocks since he was a boy, Allan Gray has built a successful career around finding and investing in companies which are priced well below his assessment of their intrinsic value. After earning his MBA and sharpening his View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
Age discrimination is a serious concern among executives who contemplate career moves after age 50. In one recent survey, nearly three out of four managers with an average age of 50 said they believed age would be a barrier in their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
assess their reading and listening comprehension of business English, and to continue to take the test until they pass. A second phase involved bringing in lecturers to discuss how to study English and manage learning the language. The... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
management skills and pitch in on disaster clean-up—to both learn and grow as human beings,” he recalls. “But my first concern was how to keep everyone safe from radiation poisoning.” Toward that end, MIT... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- News
Changing of the Guard at Tesco
of amazing retailers with the organization. It’s much broader, about strategy, if you understand the brand, the customer and do you have the interpersonal skills to engage with 450,000 people?” READ MORE View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
going to help fill a gap for those people who find themselves without a job and want to learn a new skill or brush up on an old skill to make themselves more competitive. I hope it’ll help people get... View Details
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding the language of business
When the late James F. Rothenberg (AB 1968, MBA 1970) arrived at HBS, the recently graduated Harvard College English major had to learn the intricacies of accounting as well as the language of business. These skills served him well during... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
equal is the law of the land. So those are the constraints in this entrepreneur's life. He's the grandson of a slave, son of a teamster. And we don't know much about his early life, but sometime by the middle 1890s he's managed to find... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
As Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) grew Au Bon Pain and then the Panera Bread Company into the nation’s largest “fast casual” chain, he was also shaping a team of highly skilled restaurant executives. A recent article in the Boston Globe traces the... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
“I wish more alumni could get to know the students we meet at the annual fellowship dinners,” says Michael F. Cronin, a former HBS Fund Chair and longtime supporter of fellowships at HBS. “I’ve met idealists who are committed to social enterprise, line View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
university I joined the Boston Consulting Group in Munich where I focused on industrials and technology, which included a major aircraft production program with a leading aircraft maker,” notes Schmidt. “When I saw how senior managers at... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
says he hopes it will “enable young, entrepreneurial managers from Poland to lead even more business growth in the years ahead.” Educated as an engineer in England, where his father led a Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force during... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success
With its usual flair and wit, this year’s HBS Show pitted the January and September cohorts against each other — think Jets, think Sharks — in a late March production of Up Side Story. The main characters, Tony and Maria, came from different sides of the calendar, but... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
in my new book, I talk about the leader as coach. And many people are hiring coaches like Chad to help them through it. But I think as leaders, we need to be coaches. We're no longer command and control, directing people what to do. And we're not just View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
technical and analytic skills to craft a 'well-prepared' provisional self," she writes. "By rehearsing these clumsy, often ineffective, sometimes inauthentic selves," Ibarra concludes, "junior managers learn... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
that maintains and expands your repeatable service/solution yet keeps your employees, managers, and leaders fully engaged. Keys to your future growth are servicing new contracts with your repeatable solution, and the skill set of your... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Your Company’s Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap, and Gavin Barton (Harvard Business Review Press) When highly skilled subject-matter experts, engineers, and managers leave their organizations,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
then-Dean John McArthur, and Professors Jim Austin and Kash Rangan. That commitment confirms a strong strand that has run through the School's DNA since the 1970's—in fact, every year more and more MBA applicants are drawn to HBS for its courses focused on nonprofit... View Details
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