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- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
Standard Bank, the largest bank in South Africa with a conservative culture of white Afrikaner managers. The management team had already been through this with another consultant, and they had walked out on... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
ten-year time frames for your next move. It's better to focus on what you're doing and stick with it until it becomes redundant or isn't fun anymore.” CURRENT READING Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
management at the health-care consultancy Carol Corp. (Puz continues to serve DFA in an advisory role; DFA’s original team also included doctors Gilbert Tang, MBA 2008, and Krishna Yeshwant, MD/MBA 2009.)... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Real Talk
founders have seen the model work again and again. Henderson recalls working with the management team at the largest bank in South Africa, post-apartheid, after he asked them to share their personal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
way of life for many alumni. Consider that roughly half of all alumni start a business at some point in their careers. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Back to this issue. The takeaway from one story is that students get fired up about start-ups, as evidenced by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
devices. And this year, we started using our voice to shop. Amazon launched that trend with Alexa, and recently Google and Walmart announced they are teaming up to do the same thing. We are in the early days of this digital commerce—it... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
brain-like?” And that, she says, is the key not only to better AI, but to a better understanding of what makes us human. When Dubinsky declares something to be the next big thing, it isn’t empty Valley bravado. She has worked at the forefront of personal computing at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
quality of care. Traditionally, doctors and hospitals have been paid separate fees for their services, an approach widely criticized for rewarding overuse of diagnostic tests and procedures while providing no incentives to integrate care. Working with New England... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
them to forgo returns at all.” An Inside Look at Leading the UK and US Response to COVID As the US and the UK raced to develop a COVID vaccine this year, two HBS alums found themselves at the forefront of the effort. How they grappled with View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
and coach people to be the best that they can be. I spend a lot of time with young people, coaching them, helping on career-pathing conversations, helping them build skills. I am an entrepreneur by passion and training, and I want to inject that kind of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
in my new book, I talk about the leader as coach. And many people are hiring coaches like Chad to help them through it. But I think as leaders, we need to be coaches. We're no longer command and control, directing people what to do. And we're not just View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
April of that year to reach $20 billion in annualized revenue from the commercial cloud business by fiscal 2018, a goal they passed in the first quarter. It was a “look over here” move that took investors’ eyes off the waning PC business. The piece goes on to discuss... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
physics, medicine, and other disciplines; they study business issues through new lenses and bring a wider range of methodologies to their research. This is a crucial aspect of what makes HBS unique; it means we can bring all these perspectives to bear on View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
and exhilarating. “Everything was pro bono,” she shares. “I was point person for our legal team on charitable application documents, in charge of event planning, marketing, onboarding companies that pledged, and working with web... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
Sheeroy Desai, EVP and COO for Sapient, noted that his company saves 30 to 40 percent by offshoring IT — but the move has involved a significant investment in training. “Most IT organizations tend to underestimate the costs of management... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
ask: ‘If your organization was to suddenly disappear, would the world shed a tear?’ I always liked her thought-provoking metaphor.” Honing Pathways’ mission is an ever work in progress. Taylor and his team recognize that emotional support... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
have included gangster elf-themed holiday wrapping paper and a Valentine’s Day condom giveaway. “I tell my team that ideas are key and if those ideas are good, I'll reallocate budgets to make them happen,” Braterman said in the June 3... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care delivery, consumer-driven... View Details