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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
second year,” he says. Gardner has built Kyruus into an industry leader in providing search, scheduling, and data management services for health systems. Simplifying the Process “We don’t define what is right for the patients. Our job is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
When business and career psychologist James Waldroop counsels young executives who are starting assignments in a new company, he urges them to act like anthropologists. “For the first six months on the job, your assignment is to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
How do executive search firms work? It’s well known that most senior management, CEO, and board positions are filled by these organizations, but given the confidential nature of their work, they often conduct their business with utmost... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the conferences... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
executives who have successfully navigated the process of starting and growing a dynamic entrepreneurial company, as well as from those who have led their own organizations through difficult change in order to stay ahead of their... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors has had a busy year, meeting both on campus and in informal settings around the world. In January, we returned to HBS for our Winter Meeting. The sessions included important reports from the... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
years, unit members have studied numerous organizations, ranging from Taco Bell to Intuit, to determine what maximizes profit and growth in service organizations. In so doing, they have formulated a key business dynamic that they term the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
“We believe, where political processes fail to come up with solutions for our society, equipping businesses with the right ideas is a very important aspect of dealing with sustainability issues. Therefore,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
important; the rest of the meeting often serves to confirm an initial judgment made very early on.” That confirmation process frequently begins with an open-ended question such as, “Tell me about yourself,” which Butler views as a prime... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms In their new book Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch and former Bain & Company... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
importantly, they are my neighbors, my colleagues, and my friends.” Gower sees few differences between effectively running a corporation and a local government office, although he thinks the business world could learn a thing or two from... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
It was in grade school that James D. Gibbons (MBA 1994) first began to lose his sight, a process he retraces in terms of his ability to cope at school. “I started moving up to the front of the class but not because I was smart,” laughs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
management processes — learning about relationships with other people and how those are often paramount in business situations. Also, learning about myself . . . the things I’m good at, and what I need to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
as a resource for understanding and learning from business leadership legacies. “The whole process of building a canon of business leadership has been fascinating,” observes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
three MIT scientists founded E Ink in 1997. “I was the business guy,” says Wilcox, who over time has held senior leadership roles at the company in areas ranging from sales and marketing to finance to R&D. Twelve years later, the company... View Details
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion
explored a number of economic, political, and business issues the country is facing. “Lebanon is at a crucial stage in its history,” says Ingea. “We have presidential elections this month, we have an economic crisis like we’ve never seen... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning business founded in 1926. Convinced... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
a B2B company that supplied bulk shea butter to brands and distributors. Akuete initially started down a different career path, having taken a job at JPMorgan Chase after business school. But when her mother became ill in 2015, Akuete... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
early-stage venture capital firm Glasswing Ventures, Seseri is more focused on today’s “narrow” artificial intelligence: technology capable of mimicking human thought processes and learning when applied to a specific task. “If you go... View Details
Keywords: April White