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providing advice on public relations strategies and techniques. Titles include And Be Neighbourly by J. Carlisle Macdonald, head of public relations at U. S. Steel, and The Making of a Public Relations Man View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
special, and she says it's one of the main reasons alumni should support the School every year—not just during reunion years. Katzke has shown her passion for HBS by participating each year in a letter-writing campaign to classmates... View Details
- 30 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reflecting on AASU50: Advancing African American Business Leadership
Frederick Douglass. “In line with AASU’s mission, our personal vision for the 2017-2018 academic year has been driven by the goal of strengthening the bonds within the community by investing further in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held the previous year. But he has... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
six hours,” quips Leone, his wife of 53 years, at the couple’s serene 150-acre farm high atop a Brownsville, Vermont, hill surrounded by fog-topped mountains and an artist’s palette of foliage. How does... View Details
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
On February 26, 2022, a cohort of HBS MBA students attended ClimateCAP, the Global MBA Summit on Climate, Capital, and Business. This year, ClimateCAP was hosted by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and drew over 260... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
(ranked choice voting, open primaries, legislative process reform). Very relevant this season. —Nathan Nemon (MBA 2020) The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
about companies in terms of ‘distinctive competencies,’ charting a path that diverged from the thinking of their intellectual forebears — who resisted theoretical thinking — toward a more systematic approach.” By the mid-1960s,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
to volunteering for a potential "suicide mission"-as one journalist put it-as the 45th commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. By the late 1990s, the IRS had become accustomed to being excoriated from all sides. Errors were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
to Keep It from Happening to You by Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead (MBA ’85), and Andrew Campbell (MBA ’78) (Harvard Business Press) Why do experienced leaders keep believing they have made the right... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP, which started small View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Scott Roth (MBA 1994) in the Black Hills of South Dakota as the pair discussed ways to help. What Kim wanted to do was build a foundation that would aid in funding the college educations of military children who had lost a parent in the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
hold for businesses all over the world has inspired HBS to establish its own startup here. Last summer the School's California Research Center (CRC) opened its doors in Menlo Park at 3000 Sand Hill Road, an address at the hub of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
I am thrilled to address you in my new role as president of the HBSAA Board of Directors. I look forward to using this vehicle to update you regularly on the work of the Alumni Board as well as other programs of note to the greater alumni community. Because the work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
After three years, the pair sold their portfolio to Sutter Hill Ventures, and Johnson looked for a company to buy. Instead, he ended up back in the venture business, founding Asset Management Company in 1967. Over the ensuing decades,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
Andrew Carnegie asked a congressional committee: "Do you really expect men engaged in an active struggle to make a living at manufacturing to be posted about laws and their decisions, and what is applied here, there, and everywhere?"... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
pastoral environment of Kripalu was shattered in the fall of 1994, when the resident spiritual leader was forced to resign due to sexual misconduct. Many ashram residents left in disillusionment, donations to the center fell off dramatically, and program enrollment... View Details