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- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
board member hats and reverted to the roles of students and mentors. Dewey said that a board is there “to help you as an inner circle and you have to be open for dialogue. It’s like walking into a HBS class; your training in case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
could be in a meeting at the same time. You’d hear someone answer a question and learn indirectly how to handle a difficult situation. As we grow, I think a lot about how we replicate that experience with training that is within the brand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
me in age, he was way more famous, way more successful, richer than I’d ever be, and he was miserable. I thought, “Dude, that’s future-me. That’s where I’m going.” So I said, “Look, what am I trained to do? I’m a ‘happiness’ guy. I’m... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the next piece is how do you translate that into action. So what we’ve been doing is working with the corporates to create true training opportunities where they can hire those folks,” said Bobo, who hopes to have funded 1,000 internships... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
condition of his investment. As it turned out, assembling the business was relatively easy. Managing it proved nearly fatal. Perkowski was well aware that management training in China lagged decades behind the United States. Relying on... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
first executive at Reuters to work in this way—but after her mother’s illness, she was unable to combine both jobs. This break gave Gould the opportunity to reflect on where next to take her career. While her children were young, she View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
philanthropy toward causes with social investment returns, including fostering leadership. “The world needs great leaders—people who recognize that complex problems don’t have two-sentence solutions,” he explains. “And HBS trains leaders... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
think is right.” How did you prepare for this assignment? I took a two-week ambassadorial training seminar and several weeks of refresher instruction in French. I read up on the history of Morocco and attended a number of State Department... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
time. White: Is there a common thread that runs through all of the projects that you have worked on? Tai: I'm very drawn to disruptive technology that could have broad impact. I think because I was trained originally, as technologist,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Executive Development Program (EDP), a special executive training course for the Bank's upper-level managers. "I felt that the World Bank's top people should have an intensive exposure to the latest ideas and techniques in the management... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
resources to use them in what I consider to be a cost-effective way. What’s the role of business schools in training students to handle ethical conflicts that inevitably arise? We used to talk at Yale about whether you can teach ethics to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm, which consists of a residential... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Mountains for Miracles Update
Three HBS students are climbing the world’s tallest mountains to raise money to fight childhood cancer. Donations may be made at: www.mountainsformiracles.org. View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a coauthored article in the June... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
successor. “I'm very interested in government and what mayors do to improve people's lives. So we have the Bloomberg Harvard program. Professors from the B school and the K school have provided real help to cities around the country and around the world in View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
plans to build Project Bison. But Meghan Kenny, the project manager, can see the future. MK: Have you ever seen a train going by with many different sort of rail cars attached to it? That's probably not too far off of what it would look... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
create what we call “M-Work,” which is a co-working space, closer to the Mito train station. We also started a history project called M-History, because—even though Mito has contributed greatly to the modernization of Japan—that part of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
successful economic development moment for Europe and Western countries. Poorer countries have had a much more difficult time, and lots of voices emerged with lots of disorder. We’ve been trained to understand that bias on the left or... View Details