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- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
them. In order to get those two jobs done in the context of an MBA, it's actually quite hard, because we're organized to give them knowledge and we don't equip them to do these other jobs well. And then when I come home, what job do my... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
on shared terminals in Baker Library, the game required first-year students to put their newly acquired knowledge of marketing, control, finance, and operations to the test in a simulated competitive business environment. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
alumni in our programs are extraordinary individuals. Each had great success as consumers and users of management knowledge. Now, in the Doctoral Programs, they are producers of knowledge that will shape and influence management thinking... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
London. Mulcahy added that Rayport, as moderator, “asked meaningful questions, and skillfully summarized the learnings from the impressive panelists, whose humble attitude and commendable desire to authentically share their passion and acquired View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
foreseen that the insights and problem-solving strategies they would gain would soon help them deal with the profound challenges posed by the pandemic. “The timing of the Leading People course I took in October 2019 was particularly helpful because having that View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
great success. I've met and talked with thousands of alumni over the past seven years, and I know they share our commitment to the future of HBS. Through their generosity, our alumni allow us to develop new ideas, to bring our knowledge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Ramnath’s ICICI Venture Funds) was an investment in Baazee, the Internet auction site founded by Avnish Bajaj and Suvir Sujan (both MBA ’98) that was sold to eBay in 2004 for $50 million. Recently, Sujan launched a venture- capital fund with two partners. “The top U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his right—secure in the View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
deteriorated under Saddam, so too did operational knowledge and skills, personified in the human capital destroyed in Iraq’s several wars or stifled by Saddam’s repression. But in some respects, Iraq is lucky. It has immense resources —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
opportunity. A Blessing also includes the results of Bonita C. Stewart’s and Jacqueline Adams’ proprietary Women of Color in Business: Cross Generational Survey, which examines the views of 4,005 female knowledge workers across four races... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
to me in our first meeting. “There are skills, attitudes, and a fundamental base of knowledge that education and experience can provide,” he said. “You won’t turn me into a world-class athlete by sending me out to practice with a coach,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
beard, his vast knowledge of finance, and particularly his caution about business getting too big for effective management. If he were alive today, he would find many supersized mergers to be concerned about. S. Francis Nicholson (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Sarita expanded to a second school in Shanghai; Western businesspeople and diplomats account for 10 percent of the growing business. “When you have the knowledge and you know the protocol, then you have the confidence to focus on things... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
first-year TOM class at HBS, Kim has added a world of hands-on knowledge about operations management — not the least of which is his newfound expertise in milk procurement and distribution. — SA Naidoo: Creating public-private... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
You're right. The thesis of The Happiness Equation is actually, it is in you, and all of secrets in the book deal with yourself. I did that on purpose because I didn't feel confident enough in my knowledge of relationships or my research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Practical Guide for Scaling Impact by Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) (Routledge) Encouraged by the emergence and early impact of social innovators on the African continent but frustrated by the slow pace of large-scale change, Nwuneli focuses on filling the View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios