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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co., 1969-77, 1980-85 State of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
for alumni approaching retirement: Cut back work hours gradually, develop outside interests, and consider serving in local or state government. “You can run for office, make a contribution, and not give up your retirement. MBAs have been schooled in the View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
to recognize leadership in difficult times, something that all of our honorees helped to punctuate.” Apart from the rare Lifetime Achievement Award, Sarnoff notes that this year for the first time, all three leadership honorees were... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
However, the effects of professional isolation on job performance decrease with some face-to-face interactions and access to more communication technologies, such as video conferencing and dedicated voiceover IP lines. Even the perception... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(Clerisy Press) The author’s message: the single unifying and fortifying element across all categories of business is people. By understanding their points of view, needs, and ideals, managers can learn to succeed along with them in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
is trying to manage different and multiple brand messages for different audiences, using the Internet and various other forms of distribution. What else about marketing conventional wisdom invites reexamination? What I like about the BMW... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Antonio Falato of the Federal Reserve Board, Scharfstein says many traditional banks responded by taking outsized credit risk in an effort to boost short-run performance. “The complex interplay of different types of intermediaries made it View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
create and manage culture.” We have a hard time disagreeing with this statement, except maybe quibbling with the “only” part.... We’d argue that culture is in the running for most important because—among other things—it stays behind long... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
and weeks to come to determine what we as a community can do to make sure our voices and viewpoints are heard, and to support one another during difficult times. Regards, Nitin Nohria Harvard International Office Message To the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
implemented. Service industries, by definition, are all about the people. Get that right and you will do well. — Jacob Navon (MBA 1984) If you’d said that your competitive advantage was something other than personal service/high quality, then perhaps going to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Acumen Award-winning professor, management consultant, and virtual communications expert Andrew Brodsky is here to tell you that, yes, that meeting could have been an email. And that email? Maybe it should have been a voice note.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
the ambient atmosphere. The density of those molecules is much lower, so it’s a much more difficult energy-mass problem. And energy-mass challenges turn into cost problems in the end. So it’s really about asking, Can we capture these... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
According to Jill H. Fadule, managing director of MBA Admissions, two international students - one from France and one from China - were among the School's inaugural class of approximately 25. Since that time, thousands of international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
great business cultures, building on over a century of academic thinking. They share a simple, highly predictive measurement tool, the Total Motivation (ToMo) Factor, which enables managers to measure the strength of their business... 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
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
world of the future Teaching tomorrow's leaders Who's Number One? In selecting the "most influential business leader" of the last 75 years, HBS alumni, graduates of America's best-known school of management, chose a college dropout with no formal business or View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
artists to fund a variety of projects, ranging from major site-specific installations to endeavors that support the entire creative ecosystem, such as the international professional journal for curators, The Exhibitionist. Evans, who lives in Boston with her classmate... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
everyone is a surgical candidate. This is perhaps the most difficult message to convey.” Why was having both an MD [Hwang graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2003] and an MBA from HBS important to you? “Well, the MD helped me get... View Details