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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Translation? EQ—the hardest leadership skill to build. Many people reading this will be managers of teams or groups. How can they best support these ideas? We did a study when I was at Walmart comparing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
“Business and Climate Policy: Your Vital Role,” on February 12, 2020. Moderated by Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS and Faculty Chair of BEI, the event drew 100 alumni and guests to the... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for,” adding that adventurers should be “willing to dare greatly while still safely managing risk.” Fully engage your support team with the same passion... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
University of California, San Diego. "It was clear," Bry says, "that growth in the old Navy town of San Diego was going to have to come from new technology companies. CONNECT was designed to link entrepreneurs with the resources they needed —primarily money, but also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
NVC 20: This year marked the 20th anniversary of the New Venture Competition, which began in 1997 as the HBS Business Plan Contest. (photo by Susan Young) After surviving among a pool of 171 alumni teams from 14 different regions, four... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
Genta manages 5 percent of the state budget and a staff of 270. His ministry oversees the telecom industry and digital improvements in smart city initiatives, education, and health care, as well as programs and partnerships benefitting... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
Download Jim McNerney profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1949 Born, Providence, Rhode Island 1971 Earns BA, American Studies, Yale University 1975 Earns MBA 1975 Joins Procter & Gamble, Brand Manager 1978 Joins... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
as they just struggle to find individuals with the right skillset, the right dispositions, the right, frankly, desires on their behalf to be the right team member for what they're trying to do. And so that anxiety, I think on both... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech startups over the past 20... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
hashing out every aspect of the business, and enlisted faculty to help them work through models. Professor Ryan Buell, who teaches Managing Service Operations, played a key role in guiding their early ideas for the startup and currently... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
companies expect only one or two hires to come out of the process. “Our team works hard to provide a seamless experience, and we manage all the logistics and details at no cost to the employer,” Fitzpatrick... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
managers to convene with experts and scholars to explore what the future holds for working women. The conference was organized by the HBS Club of India in partnership with the HBS-India Research Center. “There have been other... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
work out all of the interactions between modules every time you add a new function," asserts MacCormack. The authors also found that a design team with experience developing multiple product generations is helpful in a flexible process.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
the political and economic turmoil following the fall of the Berlin Wall, he urged GM's senior management to locate a new plant for the company's Opel line in the East German town of Eisenach. Eisenach seemed a long shot at best. Even... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
The Trusted Leader by Robert M. Galford (MBA '76) and Anne Seibold Drapeau (Free Press) In their new book, The Trusted Leader: Bringing Out the Best in Your People and Your Company, authors Galford and Drapeau shed light on the tools that View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
awarded the nation's third-highest civilian honor, the Padma Bhushan, in 2002. Five years ago, Bajaj began to delegate many of his responsibilities to a team of younger executives. The final stage of that plan took place last April, when... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
School's education and research mission. "Today's general manager is operating in an information-inundated world," Clark elaborated recently. "We need to prepare our students to meet that challenge. We also need to take full advantage of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
van der Boor (all MBA '97). Their group developed a plan to launch Omnicom Technologies, an enhanced fax management system. A total of $50,000 in cash and in-kind services (accounting assistance from Arthur Andersen LLP and legal advice... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details