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- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Just Rewards
Michael Darrington (PMD 27, 1974) believes in putting people first. As CEO of Greggs, which he led for 24 years to become the United Kingdom’s baking industry leader and in previous positions where he oversaw strategic turnarounds. He has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
customers only know they will pay less for something tomorrow than they do today.” There will continue to be niches in U.S. manufacturing for low-volume production, notes Sharpe, where investment is high,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
Since when do the taxman and the shareholder agree? IRS Commissioner Mark Everson and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox (MBA 1976) have advanced a simple, but controversial proposal. Companies would be required to disclose how much they View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Abington High School in suburban Philadelphia, Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) got waitlisted at Harvard College. So he found the number for Harvard’s dean of admissions and called him up to plead his case directly. When told by the dean... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes During Fall Reunions, the podcast team set up our microphones in Spangler Hall and asked alumni to tell us about those terrifying moments when—as is tradition at HBS—they... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through wireless public View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
and physics at Cleveland community colleges at night while his career took off at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center during the day. “I felt such an obligation to those teachers who had helped me, and one way I could View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging MBA Skills for the Public Good
conservation and historic preservation projects. “I wrote, coordinated, and administered the grants for a local land trust,” she says. “I never felt my education was wasted, even if it wasn’t paying work. I truly believe there’s a call... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
focus their energy based on how people’s spending is changing. Also, it's forcing us to think more about the non-spending aspects of someone's carbon footprint. Right now, we ask people for some survey information View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
the customer service representative at T-Mobile. “I love this.” “It’s actually really cool,” she can be heard saying to a coworker as the team leaves the store. “Did you hear that?” Foalea asks Behrens. They high five. Bolstered by the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
Leadership & Policy, and, Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors. “I am a ‘hopeaholic’,” she says. “My hope and goal is that through acknowledging bias and the willingness to work View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
Many people associate the name &Beyond with luxury adventure travel. CEO Joss Kent (MBA 1997) thinks of it, first, as a conservation company. Tourism pays for the company’s habitat management, community development, and other conservation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
overall student experience at HBS.” The students maintained that grade disclosure would lead to decreased cooperation and collaboration and less willingness to take risks in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
such parts presents only marginal profit opportunity. Staying in the innovative segment of an industry may mean, in fact, manufacturing a key subsystem and even becoming a provider to competitors. The View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
freelance designers submit potential logos, and companies pay a few hundred dollars for the logo they like best. Throughout the process, designers receive one- to five-star ratings from the clients on their... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Turley (PMD 43, 1982) The Brier Patch Petroleum engineering professor Tony Zanatelli signs a summer-job contract to manage the drilling of a 20,000-foot-deep exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy company MillPet owns the lease... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
will give them the $50,000. They will lose it. Then George will go back to teaching at MIT, and my son will concentrate on the family shipping business. They will both benefit, and it will be a small price View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Michael Ward (MBA ’76) grew up in blue-collar Baltimore. As a kid, he racked balls and collected customers’ money at Club Ritchie Billiards, his father’s pool hall; when he was older, he took summer jobs in an asphalt factory to View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
wasn’t an easy decision to make, given the financial implications, but as Fenton recalls, “It still felt like the right timing. It was the height of the dot-com boom, so lots of people in my class were taking risks.” Eleven years later,... View Details