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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F.... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
Massachusetts. During the bubble, the most valued skill was the presumed ability to predict what hot concept could go public fast. Now the pendulum has swung back to valuing entrepreneurial skills first and foremost. There’s also a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
recommendations to him. "I spend much more of my time now managing people and 'people issues' — such as making sure people are compatible with each other. Ten or fifteen years ago," he says, "I spent more... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
Andy Grove was first introduced to HBS. I joined Intel from DEC in Boston in late 1978 as a senior group controller based in Santa Clara, California. Working with the HR department, I created the first recruitment effort for all of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
Courtesy Susan Chong The typical wooden shipping pallet, constructed of mixed hardwood, ccan weigh 50 pounds, Susan Chong (OPM 48, 2016) explains. But a pallet made of pine weighs half that, and for businesses air shipping their products,... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
alumni, faculty, and environmental industry leaders. “We invited several of our alumni guests to host each event and give a short talk, to paint a picture of the future for energy, so our current students... View Details
- 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,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
more vigorously to assert who they are socially, psychically, and culturally,” remarks Koehn. “As a value proposition, luxury goods are very sensitive to timing and ego.”... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
become effective activists and philanthropists through their everyday activities, at little or no cost to them," explains the friendly and low-key Scher, seated in an office... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
It made a difference in the world in such a short time frame, which speaks to how dynamic this space is and how motivated the students are to bring about change. What will the picture look like in another... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
tedious administrative jobs in organizations." But I found the teaching at HBS a lot more animated and accessible than the teaching at Harvard College. The College was relentlessly academic, and few... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
a large hotel chain reached out to express interest, Hoskins began to see the promise of B2B sales in the hospitality market. “They got the value right away,” says Hoskins. “It’s automatic: Your customers are healthier and getting better... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
war’s progress? In matters of the human spirit, numbers could be deceiving. After teaching accounting and control for three years at HBS, McNamara became a War Department consultant View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
year for research on existing lines, even as other countries are investing many times that amount. Says Cynthia Fisher (MBA ’90), president and CEO of BioMed 20/20 Technologies, a biotech View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
modest and unassuming, is speaking, as he often does to young people, about the virtues of hard work, perseverance, and other old-fashioned values. When the Denver Broncos All-Pro running back finishes his... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
McKenna to lead the organization through the turmoil and out the other side. As she and her new executive team assemble in the DC office, touring the space that has been renovated View Details