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- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
religion, in terms of business techniques. And try to develop trusting relationships with people. And delegate as much as you can to your subordinates, and show your trust in them, and hope that they also reciprocate that trust in you. My... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
inventoried over 3,000 molds, most of which hadn't been used in years. "For this book project," Wilson concludes, "there isn't a course that I took at HBS that I didn't find useful in some measure, particularly marketing, production,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
Officer Susan Rogers, an accomplished HBS administrator with a wealth of experience in technology and other projects, including total responsibility for the recent reconstruction of Morgan Hall. Ground Wires As Upton and others involved... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
Lazarus puts it, that have characterized his career. He enrolled at HBS directly out of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, with plans of going into retailing. "Business school convinced me that retailing was not what I... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
other every day for the last thirty years. Anyway, when I called him in New York, he just was beside himself. When he later learned there would be a reception for me at HBS that day, he wanted to get to Boston as quickly as possible. He... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
many of the artists that Joyner and her husband, private equity investor Alfred Giuffrida, collect are enjoying increased visibility. Major museums in the United States (and beyond) are reevaluating the artists’ careers and influence through group and solo View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
assets—a model that might well hold promise for other parts of rural and postindustrial America that are struggling to reinvent themselves. “I’m here to create jobs and economic opportunity,” Marietta says. “Not just talk about it, but actually View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Like other companies, family-run enterprises must develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills. But they must also manage family dynamics. The authors show how enterprising families can transmit the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
Issue Focus: Innovation In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, we turned to five HBS faculty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
testing conducted by SmartPak. Laboratory results showed that the subject of the original recall — the chicken and rice dog food — did not contain melamine — but its Adult Lamb and Brown Rice Dog Food did, perhaps due to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
training. All the postmortems of the current collapse show people making unconscious or malfeasant choices. At the MBA level, it’s encouraging that HBS and other leading business schools are reexamining... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
Chinese-American and the Eastern heritage has been a big part of how I've grown up. But truthfully, April, what really made this relevant was about 20 years ago when I came out of HBS class of 1997, I was in my first job in management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
conference. Such affronts were all too familiar in a country that, at the time, had few women entrepreneurs. When an agent finally responded, he gave Russo serious pause by showing a building far larger than she had stipulated. Upon... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
helped her renegotiate what she was earning on those baskets. So that was the first time, going to Rwanda that summer, that I saw how it could all come together. And so, when HBS saw the piece run in the FT, one of my professors-- Jeff... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
can benefit from the 'cool' aura around our product," notes Grubman. "You don't have to play football to become a fan." But HBS associate professor Juan Alcacer, coauthor of a case titled "The Globalization of the NFL," forecasts... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
refrigerators, powerful-and-cheap computing, and $20 hacking kits, there is an infinite number of attack points and shrinking barriers to entry for the bad guys. So how do we win? We talked to four HBS alumni whose cybersecurity... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai