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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
the proceedings. Photos by Stuart Cahill For the hundreds of MBA students and their families assembled on a hot and steamy Baker Lawn last June, Class Day 2004 was an occasion for mixed emotions. Several of the event’s speakers juxtaposed fond recollections of shared... View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
- News
Searching for Purpose
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
same time, American families flocked to locations such as Walt Disney’s Disneyland to experience new forms of leisure. Shopping itself became another form of entertainment, as the number of shopping malls skyrocketed: In 1945, there were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human side and find a way forward when analysis falls short. Chasing Rainbows and Beyond: A Spectrum of Life and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
some tales, and then ask for tips,” Bines says. The experience taught him that the better you understand your customer, the richer the tips. He has worked in customer-facing businesses ever since, including his current role as managing... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
negotiation has become a key part of daily management. "Instead of being an important skill for special occasions - making deals and managing disputes - negotiation is increasingly a way of life for managers," notes James K. Sebenius, the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
Human Performance Lab will incorporate new insights into wearable digital sensors. At the Female Athlete Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, this approach has already led researchers to recommend reassessing guidelines for women who View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
vision and mission statements should live in practice as well as print, and permeate through every aspect of your organization. You must close the gap between the messages you declare and the experiences you deliver. How to Lead a... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
before! We sold out of our holiday sets for the season right after Cyber Monday (which was a good problem), but we’re continuing to experiment with how to better predict demand.” What’s a typical workday like (or is there really no such... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
financial literacy programs for teachers and students, as well as many other educational opportunities. “Education was the bridge to a better life for me,” observes Magwegwe, whose own dreams of going to college in the early 1990s were,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
historic high of 94 percent. And the numbers in the years since—hovering between the high 80s and low 90s—account for the top five spots in execution percentages since the Naval Capital Fund was created. “The experience with NAVSEA... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
who have decades of experience in both organic and conventional farming, directly manage the farmland they convert. The organization uses a profit-sharing model, giving all participants––partners, operators, and management alike––a stake... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
years ago, the organization added a distinctive network of elevated walkways, known as Wild Walk, that gives visitors the unique opportunity to experience nature at treetop level. “Everybody loves Wild Walk,” Clifford says. “It’s been a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Workout: The Complete Guide to Asking Better Questions to Get Better Answers for Running Your Business or Your Life by Bennett McClellan (MBA 1981) XLibris McClellan outlines several stages to answering important questions: fully... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
product categories the frantic effort to keep up with the competition by adding features and gimmicks can paradoxically result in a “sea of sameness.” In a personal narrative voice, and drawing extensively on the experiences of family and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
Kennedy Main article: Where Innovation Rules As a kid, Joe Kennedy (MBA 1985) got hooked early on the magic of radio, listening in bed at night to a crystal set he had built himself. Radio returned to his life in 2004 when—after an... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
Hong performed selections from Beethoven and Schumann, followed by another short film by Kim, about the life of another Aronson student, cellist Mitchell Maxwell. Hong concluded the concert with the theme from “Schindler’s List” by John... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
are wreaking havoc on the workplace. Reengineering, for example, destabilizes and changes the rules by which organizations operate, he says. "Many of these programs are actually designed to make life easier for top management without... View Details