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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
company’s name. Clearly, all signs point to your firm’s continued success. Right? Not necessarily, says HBS assistant professor Donald Sull in Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. Based on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
the current system functioning, while leadership should inspire change. "It is possible to have too much or too little of either," Kotter writes. "Strong leadership with no management risks chaos," while... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
changes that took root after the last crash. “Everything we do today grew out of the dark days of the early ’90s,” says Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Some refer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
and managed to realize this joint value; and each participant must earn a sufficient return to justify the investment. The second element—managing complex collections of people, products, and partners—presents a formidable challenge for... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself managing an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Mittal Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Bringing Global Back Home In 1976, in India’s Punjab region, 18-year-old Sunil Bharti Mittal... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
camp in Uganda, and you heard a woman's song. Heaney: I was over in Africa doing some work, and in Africa, many of the organizations need very specific skill sets, medical training, logistics experience. I didn't have those, so I had to look for a while to find... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
given the possibility of a change in government policy that could go into effect immediately, all foreign nationals should carefully assess whether it is worth the risk to travel outside the country. If you travel abroad, we strongly... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After HBS, Huebner moved to California, first to build a View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
practical solutions some have developed in response. Bradach explains that traditional chain enterprises comprise two organizational units: company and franchise. The company-owned unit is run on a military model - the superior exercises... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unflappable? “I don’t think I feel risk the way most people do,” she says with a shrug. “I think it’s because of my mom.” Margaret Whitman was the sort of bold character who volunteered for the Red Cross during World War II and hopped on... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
focused mainly on avoiding risk -- and more on resource attraction, which nurtures innovation. For the past 41 years, the McKinsey Foundation for Management Research has offered awards recognizing the two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
cash and in-kind services. They are KNUMI, which is developing technology to enable "media content providers to create a highly interactive experience for end-users"; Sound MicroSystems, which is commercializing technology for the development of a silicon microphone;... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
informing the practices of managers in enterprises around the globe. "Their articles and commentary have made HBR the single most influential management publication in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
nonprofits at the time. “When I went into the nonprofit world in 1991, the number of MBAs there was very small compared to today,” he says. “For better or worse, many nonprofits only attracted people who had the passion and skills in the mission, but not the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the last decade. First job I was the summer maintenance boy at our local swim club — mowing lawns, cleaning toilets. You probably couldn't start much lower. Inspirations The entrepreneurs who start the companies that we fund. They're the ones who View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with everybody,” he recalls. “The... View Details