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- 01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
leadership skills we’re looking for, and we trust that you’ll learn the industry.’ They were willing to take the risk that I might fail.” To the contrary, he helped turn around lagging operations and rose to become president of GE Financial Assurance Direct, View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
special interest groups (SIGs) to accommodate its broad constituency. The North Shore Chapter, for example, caters to members who live outside the city proper, while the Chicago Society gathers for cultural or social events in and around... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey In June, Aman Kumar (MBA 2014) was appointed the first-ever special advisor to the CIO of the Republic of Estonia. Kumar has a day job, too, working in the New York office of enterprise software giant... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
million and employs more than 300 people. Ghosh is optimistic about opportunities in the burgeoning world of electronic commerce. "The Internet is completely changing the way we do business," he says. —J.A.R. « Back Healthy Competition If you've ever had to shop for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
specialized in failing companies," said the former management consultant in a 1985 HBS interview. "No matter what a firm's problem was, I always said it was my specialty to take care of it." MCI, an upstart telecommunications firm that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
Porter's talk focused on regional competitiveness and the role of what he terms clusters: geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions in a nation or region.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
connections can have benefits well beyond the personal. The case underscores the power that can flow from special YPO relationships and the YPO culture, as with a videoconference convened by the Peace Action Network that brought together... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
special attention paid to the look and feel of small details such as the “sari guard”—a regulatory requirement that ensures the long, flowing garment doesn’t get entangled in the bike’s rear wheel. “Bringing Harley-Davidson to India was a... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
start in school. They then show how these problems are being met with innovative solutions that can be supported by everyone. WuDunn took time away from her “day job” as managing director at Mid-Market Securities, a small New York investment firm View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
imperfect institutions, the authors write, “but no viable alternative has been proposed, so we must make the most of the best governance tools at our disposal.” In the future, Lorsch and Carter envision that “boards will possess a genuine portfolio of diverse skills,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Their final assignment was to create a new business concept. And one of my favorites was they took the Barry's Boot Camp model. And they called it Larry's, which would be for older adults. DM: [laughs] SWG: And it would be modified a little bit. And I thought that was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
AASU’s 35th Annual Conference
Named after the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA ’33), the annual conference of HBS African-American alumni and students sported a celebratory air as it convened, with a record number of participants, for the 35th time in February. Special... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
to serve as a diverse sounding board around our initiatives, bringing the alumni perspective to our hardest decisions. Are there any special challenges for the Board in the face of the pandemic? Like everyone, we have had to adjust to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
practices to understand principles,” Porter has said. As part of that effort, and emerging from his trip, Porter and several GHD colleagues have written a case study, “HIV Care in Rwanda,” that was the subject of a special seminar at HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Coleman Professor of Financial Management. “We are surprised by how teams come in and say we talked to the CEO,” laughs Cohen. One of the key lessons in Cohen and Malloy’s field course, Stock Pitching, is that the market is almost always right. It’s only by developing... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Greater China Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science & Tech Innovation Special Cooperation Zone Students learned how special economic zones (SEZs) are designed and how they can help spur investments and economic... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers
make global specialized healthcare accessible to anyone, anywhere. Trustedoctor “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey, before customers become in-patients of a provider” explains Jarzabek, who remembers well... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the... View Details