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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
in the U.S. Army. Before joining Aon, he was a managing director at Marsh & McLennan, where he worked for 31 years. Robert P. Williams, a friend and colleague, called Demas "a natural leader and mentor." At Demas's memorial service,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
From the beginning, the company’s goal has been to hire and train as many Afghans as possible; today, 75 percent of senior management and 97 percent of all employees are natives. Roshan launched as scheduled... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
Racism and Third-Degree Racism,” published in The Atlantic, John Rice (MBA 1992) proposes a way forward. We can end racism, he writes, by increasing its cost. The founder and CEO of the nonprofit Management Leadership for Tomorrow, where... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
managed to achieve success and satisfaction in both realms. She related how in June 1983, six months pregnant with her first child, she became the Times' highest-ranking woman when the paper named her deputy metropolitan editor. She took... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational conservation organization with 3,800... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
people who are different from themselves. Examples might include a production supervisor who can rally everyone in an organization, from frontline employees to union leaders to CEOs; or a platoon leader who works with people from a range... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
a culture in business that does not tolerate “nodders” and “yes men,” neither in management nor in the boardroom. We need a culture that is willing, when necessary, to ask awkward and embarrassing questions and that insists on believable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will it ever be enough to solve the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
technical, and skilled employees to support growing international business. For Jordanian, Egyptian, and Palestinian companies, cooperation with Israeli firms, and with each other, is even more strategically attractive. Companies can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
today's top executives must build organizations in which the new can constructively displace the old and where talented employees are encouraged to help formulate company strategy. "Successful e-leaders focus on two things: a new approach... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
families, and small businesses and their employees made sense. But some of the larger corporate bailouts really should have taken a backseat to further investments in public health. People use the phrase “fiscal stimulus” to describe the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
room. You will never regret it, and you'll build a strong reputation." Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991), managing director, Golden Seeds; blogger, Novofemina.com, Boston, Massachusetts I'd offer three ideas to female MBAs. First, take the time... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman grew up in a small Kansas town, the son of an hourly View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
As this existential crisis unfolded, a customer called FedEx in tears because her wedding dress hadn’t arrived yet, with less than twenty-four hours until the ceremony. A frontline service employee named Diane jumped into action, tracked... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
drives; and how to manage the disease and vaccinations in the villages of developing countries. The book also explores how governments across the world can work closely with private-sector companies to fight the illness and accelerate... View Details