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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
chemical-industry giant Monsanto in St. Louis, Price had an epiphany. He realized that "the people who run the world are businesspeople" and that many had studied at Harvard. So he set his sights on HBS. When Price and his wife, Joyce (to whom he View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
grading standards? Associate Professor Francesca Gino and colleagues investigate the phenomenon of the "fundamental attribution error." The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking Senator John Heinz Professor of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
Corporate Director's Guidebook, the basic attributes for board service eligibility are common sense, practical wisdom, and informed judgment. Add to these baseline qualities the skills and experience acquired during the course of one's... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Stanford University in 1959. Beverly Hawes, a Boise native, earned her degree at Whitman College in Washington. The Haweses came to HBS with four young children (two more followed in 1973 and 1976), and Rod Hawes earned his MBA as a Baker Scholar. "I gave Beverly the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
bright blue feet,” he says. “It’s the one place on earth where you feel like you’ve travelled back one million years in a time machine.” Main Wilson attributes his energy and inspiration to his father, Dennis Main Wilson, a well-known... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies are often disruptive to established organizations because they have a different set of attributes that aren't valued in existing markets. Market potential can seldom be measured and profit margins are meager at best. Examples... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
revenues were less than $750 million. In short order, he became CEO and chairman. When he retired at age 59 in 2001, the company employed 28,000 and revenues exceeded $6.7 billion. George attributes the company’s success to maintaining an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
and reorders. He also focuses on the skills and attributes of the successful entrepreneur, including a separate chapter on what he calls "numeracy": the ability to understand and use numbers to help one's business. Included in the book is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Castaldo attributes Pollo Tropical's success to a “high-value equation” that features freshly prepared food of restaurant quality at fast-food prices. “While the quick-service business has tried to take the labor out of food preparation,... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
accepted the girls." And in an early affirmation of what we now know as work-life balance: "I feel the traits that Western society has traditionally attributed to women can be combined with a challenging vocation rather than dominated by... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
says, attributing the success of the partnership to the fact that Time Inc. did its homework well. “They are a magazine shop just like us. They’re completely committed, and they’re the best in their business.” Expanding across the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Donor Spotlight
years later.” Wilson “Roly” Nolen (MBA ’51) As Cochair of his class’s 60th Reunion gift campaign, Nolen took leadership to heart by establishing a $1 million gift annuity to ultimately benefit HBS. Nolen, who served as chair of HBS’s Cornerstone Society for over a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
private equity universe is maturing, and in some cases firms are changing how they think about hiring,” says Lindsey Mead. “Every firm has its own set of attributes that it looks for; drilling down to understand the priorities of both... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
the product is designed—the physical attributes of the product. And he came up with five factors: Relative advantage: Is it better than what it’s replacing? Compatibility: Is it compatible with the way people currently do things?... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
through college one year faster than the national average, and we know we can attribute that to the fact that they know why they’re there. They know what questions they’re trying to answer. They know how they want to orient their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Library Dues
The son of a linen- and curtain-store owner, Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72), chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, has done pretty well for himself in life; he attributes a measure of that success to the public libraries he made use of as... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
the context was GE Digital. JI: Yup. DM: You were building GE Digital in 2011 and 2012. And there's this great phrase, and I forget who to attribute it to, but someone called them GE Antibodies—that came and tried to kill this potential... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
(Johnson showed it at his 50th HBS reunion.) Alcoholism afflicts 5 to 10 percent of the general population, a figure that experts say is probably higher among CEOs. That’s attributable to the greater levels of stress and work-related... View Details