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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
that "our assets at P&G are our people and our brands." When Lafley was named CEO, the company was in a slump because of low earnings and low morale. It had lost focus on the basics. Lafley's inspirational leadership style, which... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
into account a lot of different inputs. Once you’re able to identify what you’re building and who you’re building it for, then you can focus on execution. We consider a few things when we’re executing, including asking ourselves: Have we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
put it mildly, this was an overly rich valuation—Parker’s entire investment up to that point had been an Apple II and 10 used diskettes. With Parker’s enthusiastic assent, Sahlman used the TDC business plan as the focus of his very first... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Is your company doing enough to protect itself from cyber attacks? According to several HBS faculty and alumni experts, senior executives need to pay more attention to this potential threat. It makes good business sense — and fulfills a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
related real estate from Anheuser-Busch for $150 million, they didn’t only buy a baseball team. Just as the Boston Red Sox enjoy (or endure) the attentions of fans across a wide swath of New England, the Cardinals are a focal point for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
the recent innovation has come from technologists and pedagogical talent working together to create an environment where the teacher can focus solely on trying to understand what a student knows and what he or she needs next." EQUAL... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
value-added by the MBA degree. Those questions, and the desire for greater attention to organizational realities, global perspectives, and leadership skills, have been getting more vigorous and louder. Second, this is very much a time for... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Aragon in 2001. With the launch of the Griffin Foundation in 2009, she returned capital from outside investors to focus on her young family and her civic endeavors, which also include supporting the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
will help it thrive in captivity? Three professors in the School’s Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it’s a rare quality bestowed on a chosen few, but all agree... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Hicks. CP+B is known for work that challenges the definition of traditional advertising (such as its 2004 Subservient Chicken Web site, created for Burger King). The agency has also garnered its share of attention through numerous... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Conducting Research That Influences Practice
business and exposes them to various approaches to teaching and developing curricula. Kim says that her fellowship, which covers her full tuition and includes a living stipend, makes a huge difference in her studies. “It allows me to View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Smith Barney; Janet M. Green (MBA '88), partner at Ernst & Young; Ann M. Sarnoff (MBA '87), senior vice president of Nickelodeon; and Nancy C. Walker (MBA '86), general manager of Mosby Consumer Health. Among their words of advice to women in corporate life: Pick the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
research management, to pay more attention to achieving results rather than expanding knowledge for its own sake,” Van Etten says. “In part, we’re encouraging academics to team up with industry in the hopes that the private sector’s View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity and low prices, Esquel was just... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
government hopes that the tourism industry will revitalize the region and account for 10 percent of the country’s GDP in a decade, up from just 3 percent. The work of drawing global attention to this forgotten swath of the country is part... 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
- 14 Nov 2019
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Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Red Lobster Dan Morrell: Kim Lopdrup (MBA 1984) is a turnaround expert. Early in his career, he helped revive Dunkin Donuts’ American coffee business and then turned his View Details